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

[Dâniel Fraga]

On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 17:26:50 +0200
Reimar Döffinger <Reimar.Doeffinger at gmx.de> wrote:

> Not to mention that this is _far_ simpler than menu support and probably
> also simpler than subtitle support...

	And _far_ useless too ;). Most of people who watch blu-ray on
Linux already use some kind of decryption software before feeding it
into mplayer... those who use mplayer to watch a m2ts file from blu-ray
want to watch *every single* blu-ray disc out there and not only those
AACS discs MPlayer would support.

	In my case, I just use AnyDVD HD on Virtualbox to decrypt the
disc. What I really need is the features of the disc (menu, extras, PGS
etc). Others could use DVDFab or even the "free" dumpHD... 

	And I bet MPlayer will never decrypt a BD+ disc. Or when it
finally can decrypt a BD+ disc, blu-ray will be obsolete and nobody
will care. So for these discs, this feature won't make any difference
and we're still missing what *really* matters.

	Being able to decrypt just some AACS only discs will not add
any value to the end user. And even if you support AACS, then what
next? Developers just say "PGS/menu/playlist/whatever is not on my TODO
list"... so it's non-sense. Those who can make a difference do
concentrate on the wrong thing.

	Ps: regarding PGS, Xine already shows PGS subtitle for a long
time and nobody took the time to look at the code... There're a lot of
lazy people here, who in fact don't care at all about blu-ray or even
don't watch any blu-ray on the computer (I imagine most here don't
even have a blu-ray player).

	Ps2: someone will write "so do it yourself". Yes, If I were a
developer, I would do it. I am just a user waiting for someone to
implement those features. And sometimes I think I wait too much... If
you want to *lose* users, then you're on the right track. And if you
don't mind losing users, then it's ok, good for you, bad for the rest
of us.

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