[MPlayer-dev-eng] Why no default modern disc playback support?, i.e. Blu-Ray/HD

[Reimar Döffinger]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 10:37:39AM +0100, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Saturday, 16 February 2008 at 10:33, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> > On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, e-t172 wrote:
> > 
> > > codec available, is unable to decode Blu-ray video in realtime on my Core 2 
> > > Duo E6600 (using latest Mplayer + CoreAVC patches on Windows, maybe it's 
> > > better on Linux, I doubt it though).
> > 
> > However, I can decode it (the infamous "bird scene" from Planet Earth in 
> > h.264 @L5.1) using Coreavc on a Q6600 on windows. It uses approximately 
> > 60-70% on all 4 cores at peak according to windows task manager.
> > 
> > So if mplayer would support Coreavc in a way that most users would find 
> > accessable (ie via official version and a howto including buying coreavc 
> > from the manufacturer), a Q6600 or equivalent would enable anyone to play 
> > most video streams on Linux including decrypted bluray and hddvd streams.
> 
> We prefer to spend our time improving open-source implementations instead
> of supporting closed-source equivalents, even if they are faster at the time.

Anyone is free to push the support and bring the required patches
up-to-date.
Currently the google code project for this
(http://code.google.com/p/coreavc-for-linux/) seems to be basically dead,
with a version that will be some effort to sync to SVN (I did a partial
patch, but it had no reaction) and in addition the code breaks more than
a few of the currently supported binary codecs.

Greetings,
Reimar Döffinger