[MPlayer-dev-eng] what happened to the blu-ray support

[Alexander Roalter]

On 06/27/2010 12:13 AM, Benjamin Zores wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it> wrote:
>> Ages ago (it seems) there was a patch by Jonathan Nell that enabled
>> basic blu-ray playback from the medium with a known VUK., but I just
>> wanted to know the status. I was able to plug in the patch in the first
>> place with almost no changes to the current svn, and was able to play my
>> 2001 space odyssey BD with it (since the key is known).
> 
> There were a lot of different patches and revisions for BD support actually.
> Some were using the now called libbluray, other were using some proprietary libs
> and some patches used to work, were reformatted and then never worked
> ever again.
> 
> So would you mind being more specific (or resend) the patch you're
> referring to ?

It was the very first patch, mentioned here:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.mplayer.devel/53790/focus=55229

I know there have been made some improvements on it, but basically,
playing 2001 works - albeit rough..



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Cheers,
Alex