Did any KDE or Fedora or other Linux development team ever solve the Blu-ray mystery for the K Desktop?
I recently acquired a Samsung external Blu-ray disk player/burner (SE-506AB). It has a USB 2.0 connector through which it gets all its power and signal. I just plugged it into a USB port on my Linux box, popped in a commercial Blu-ray disk, and waited to see what would happen.
Well, all that happened was, it gave me three options: open it with File Manager, look at the photographs with Gwenview, and open it with K3b.
The option to play the video content with Kaffeine did not show.
So I guess Kaffeine doesn't know how to play a Blu-ray movie.
Come on, guys. The world's going to Blu-ray fast, now that HDTV is becoming standard. Have I missed something? Is there a way to play a Blu-ray title in KDE (or elsewhere in Linux), other than ripping it (in Windows, probably) and playing the rip on my hard drive?
Temlakos
Temlakos wrote:
Come on, guys. The world's going to Blu-ray fast, now that HDTV is becoming standard. Have I missed something? Is there a way to play a Blu-ray title in KDE (or elsewhere in Linux), other than ripping it (in Windows, probably) and playing the rip on my hard drive?
Yes. As for DVDs, you need software (partly different one than for DVDs) that is not in Fedora repositories. (The libbluray in Fedora handles, by itself, neither decoding (the usual patent-encumbered MPEG codecs) nor decrypting (that needs libraries from RPM Fusion that are loaded at runtime by libbluray – there are at least 2 different encryption standards for commercial Blu-ray disks, each has its own decrypting library).) Not having a Blu-ray drive myself, I don't know what players can actually play Blu-ray. (The xine-lib library used by Kaffeine can play them in principle, but it may need some convincing to get Kaffeine to actually play them, e.g. passing some magic address to Kaffeine on the command line or in "Open Address".)
Kevin Kofler
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