[MPlayer-dev-eng] Bluray playback

[Jonathan Nell]

I'm working on an mplayer patch to allow for 'native' Bluray playback
(I found it immensely annoying that there is no way to play Bluray
discs in linux - well at least no straightforward way). I wanted to
get your thoughts regarding a few issues:

1) Firstly, is there any way such a patch could be accepted being that
it will implement AACS (and eventually BD+) decrypting?
2) Even if the decryption algos themselves are not a problem, they
rely on a bunch of crypto keys (look at the doom9 forum for more
info). This means that either Processing Keys are taken from a
'legitimate' player and included, or a list of Volume Unique Keys are
included. Would the distribution of these keys be covered under fair
use?
3) Is there any way to apply the patch without the keys and then allow
the user to provide keys from wherever if the want to watch Bluray
discs?

I juist don't think it's very fair that Linux users cannot view their
legal discs (which they paid for) in their legal drives (which they
paid for)! What are your thoughts?