[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] Bluray support through libbluray

[Rafał Miłecki]

That's really, really GREAT! Thank you Benjamin for your whole work!
Thanks developers for reviews!

2010/7/5 Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it>:
> On 05.07.2010 19:34, Oleg Lelchuk wrote:
>> Great! So now, after I update to the latest version of svn mplayer, I will
>> be able to watch blu-rays with subtitles?
>
> No.
>
> First, you can watch only unencrypted Blu-ray, which basically limits
> the playback to decrypted variants obtained via other measures. You'll
> need libaacs and libbdplus for full playback, and both may have a
> difficult legal standing, depending on which country you are in. Both
> have to be gotten separately and are not finished yet / under heavy
> development (AFAIK).

Could we maybe get some quick HOWTO on playing unencrypted and
encrypted Blu-rays? AFAIU for now playing encrypted movies needs
libaacs and libbdplus installed. What about keys? Do we pass key using
mplayer command line? Or is this fetched from some file from
hard-coded-path? What format of this file is expected?

-- 
Rafał