[MPlayer-dev-eng] Bluray playback

[Jonathan Nell]

2009/9/7 Grozdan <neutrino8 at gmail.com>:
> I'm strongly in support for such a patch. Linux people always seem to
> suffer due to a combination of ways content people always making it
> hard to watch *legally* purchased stuff and their obsession with "iron
> curtain" encryptions, which brings more pain for all parties,
> especially for people who have like you said *legally* purchased their
> content and play it on *legally* purchased devices.
>
> I think your third option is the better one. Add an option to
> mplayer/mencoder (like -bdkey or some such) for the user to provide
> the key himself. Adding built-in keys to mplayer could potentially
> bring future problems. As for the patch having AACS/future BD+, I
> think this is OK. MPlayer already includes libdvdcss, though a
> separate lib and not directly built-in into the mplayer codebase. I'm
> not entirely sure on this one so someone else who's more familiar with
> such things will have to answer the legal questions.
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There was a bluray library under dev a few months back and I think it
has been picked up again by someone.
But I think a working version of it is a little while off while my
code is slightly nearer completion.
I also personally think that it's better to be in the actual codebase
(I hate the fact that an external lib is needed for dvd playback -
very counter-intuitive for the newbie) and I think that if no keys are
provided it should be ok legally (again I'm no expert on such things).


2009/9/7 Nico Sabbi <nicola.sabbi at poste.it>:
> if the patch is clean, not bigger than necessary, isolated in the
> stream layer without hacks and without keys MAYBE someone will commit
> it (not me I don't want to have anything to do with sony&friends)

The crypto code can add a few kbs to the size. Maybe the best way
would just be to go ahead and do it and see how it works - then we can
decide if it's worth including or not.