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

[Benjamin Zores]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Alexander Roalter <alex at roalter.it> wrote:
> On 06/29/2010 11:06 PM, Benjamin Zores wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:02 PM, Carl Eugen Hoyos <cehoyos at ag.or.at> wrote:
>>> Benjamin Zores <ben <at> geexbox.org> writes:
>>>
>>>> *** It'll only work on descrambled BD right now. ***
>>>
>>> Which studio releases such discs?
>>
>> Which studio release disc with AACS only anymore ?
>>
>>> Alexander, please continue with the original approach.
>>
>> Ok, correction: this patch and the described procedure doesn't support
>> descrambled BDs, libbluray does.
>> Original approach allows you to decode a single stream (BDs are no
>> longer for quite a while, they consist of multiple files stored in a
>> binary playlist).
>> In the end, any attempt to continue with current approach will lead to
>> rewriting a libbluray, so it's a waste of time imho.
>>
>> Ben
>
> I'd happy accept a working libbluray, but I'd suggest to keep the
> sans-libaacs solution to have it working with a known set of VUKs. So à
> la if libaacs is not found, we simply do the key discovery from the
> keydb.cfg file and try our best. In this case, 2001 could be played
> without a problem.

So why not having both ?
You do add a bd:// streamer and I'll add a bluray:// one using libbluray.

> What are the legal implications of a library with BD plus? I understand
> the ramifications of libaacs, but are there also problematic parts in BD+?

libbluray is fully redistribuable.
libaacs and libbdplus might not be (and probably won't be) by
distributions so it'll be up to users to do what they want on their
system.

Ben