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bd's are drm'd to hell. no free players can currently play them.
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2010-11-19, 16:59
(This post was last modified: 2010-11-19, 17:01 by SpectreX.)
TMT 3/5 can do this because they pay license fees to the Blu Ray Consortium to get BD menu support and other stuff. Hence the fact that TMT3/5 and PDVD 9/10 are not free. It would be possible if the XBMC devs would make a deal with the BD Consortium and pay license fees, but that would mean XBMC would become payware. From my point of view that would be okay, since the devs deserve money for such a great product anyway.
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XBMC already uses libbluray which is the equivalent to libdvdnav (for playing DVDs with menus etc). The problem is libbluray just hasn't all the functionality implemented right now. The whole menu thing is far more complicated on Blu-rays.
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Thank you for your answers, maybe someday this will be.
Good luck in the future.
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I'm happy with launching an external player, I'd just like BR's to scrape properly in full BDMV folder structure so I don't have to add them manually.
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All of my bluray rips are Criterion, full of nice special features and such... for now I just watch the biggest mt2s, but I'll be happy when I can see the menus and stuff too.
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2010-11-21, 11:56
(This post was last modified: 2010-11-21, 12:09 by cortez44.)
Does anybody know the real status of menu and BD-J support in that library?
I'd be curious to do so.
Yes, the DRM-free Blu-Ray discs I was curious. Stored in the HDD Blu-Ray discs I think most of the DRM-free.
I do not trust the optical discs, a lot of ruined the original DVD. The disk I just backed up, in case if the HDD is destroyed.
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For the moment only HDMV menu are supported by libbluray.
But it's already a good start.
Couldn't test yet on vlc.
BD-J is not currently implemented, and not reverse enginered yet.