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

[Dâniel Fraga]

On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:56:49 +0200
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).

	I have the same oppinion as before: while developers struggle
to manage the key/encryption issue, MPlayer is stalled. It could be
much better to focus on a decrypted disc supporting:

1) PGS subtitles (a long requested feature nobody cares to implement)

2) menus

3) playlist

4) extras

	etc, while developers try to break the encryption (which, if
you think about BD+, isn't trivial so you will keep discussing it
forever until blu-ray is completely obsolete).

	So, please focus on what is relevant: the features of the
blu-ray. Users can just decrypt the blu-ray by other means by
themselves, even if they use DumpHD or DVDFab (which can be run through
Wine) or even AnyDVD HD (through Virtualbox etc).

	After you implement all blu-ray features, then you can discuss
about encryption which will take much longer and it's much much harder
than to implement menu/playlist support, for example.

	So focus on what is *easier* first... It's non sense to focus
on the hardest part and left the easier on the TODO list...

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