[MPlayer-users] Blu-Ray Playback/Subtitles

[Nan Null]

----- Original Message ----
> From: "galenz at zinkconsulting.com" <galenz at zinkconsulting.com>
> To: "MPlayer usage questions, feature requests, bug reports" <mplayer-users at mplayerhq.hu>
> Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 2:16:22 PM
> Subject: Re: [MPlayer-users] Blu-Ray Playback/Subtitles
> 
> 
> On Jan 17, 2008, at 11:08 AM, Nan Null wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> >> From: "galenz at zinkconsulting.com" 
> >> In this particular case, I managed to find the subtitles elsewhere
> >> and
> >>
> >
> >> convert them into a .srt file.
> >>
> >> However, this would still be a useful feature to have.
> >>
> >> -Galen
> >> _______________________________________________
> >
> >
> > It would be real nice if you pop the thing in, and it plays,  
> > encrypted or not.
> 
> There are serious technical/cryptographic issues associated with
> that!
> 
  
> In other words, it may never happen, at least not reliably. I don't  
> know if you're making fun of me, or if you're serious, but either
> way,
> 
  
> my point stands.
> 
> Subtitle extraction, given that Blu-Ray uses an MPEG-2 transport  
> stream variant for data storage, does not seem too far-fetched.
> 
> Parsing text is much easier than cracking encryption and re- 
> implementing a complex application runtime environment.
> 
> -Galen
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I didn't mean to make fun of you.  :-)

I actually wish that would happen.  I thought some people already broke the HD DVD, and it's very similar to Blu-ray (besides some advanced DRM feature).
Legally speaking, DVD encryption was broken and played by Linux, and hasn't be sued yet (or has it?).  If Blu-ray is widespread, it's very likely that it'll need to be run under Linux.

It's very likely that Blu-ray will be widespread in the future.  So, I just hope that we'll have that feature soon.








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