Blu-ray problem

[Bob]

** Reply to message from wG|Agent M <agent_m at advantagepc.com.au> on Fri, 26 Sep
2014 09:22:48 +0800

> I might be wrong, or my info might be out of date, but my understanding
> is that you can't play blu-ray discs on ubuntu / Linux.

It looks like you are correct as no one has any suggestions on how to get it
working.


> If I'm not mistaken it has something to do with licensing for blu-rays,
> and as a result unless the people producing the media players have paid
> the licensing fee then the players can't play them. Given that software
> for linux / Ubuntu is generally free, including VLC, they won't have
> paid this licensing fee, and therefore can't play blu-ray
> discs....despite the fact that you have legally bought a blu-ray player
> and blu-ray disc, have obtain an operating system, and a media
> player...again, ALL legally, you won't be able to play blu-ray movies.
> 
> Ironically, I believe you can rip the blu-ray into an MKV file, and then
> play the MKV file ( the very thing that people obtaining these movies
> illegally would do ). However, that either means ripping it every time
> you want to watch it, or storing the ripped versions of your movies on
> your hard drive, OR I think there is a way to have it ripped and played
> through VLC on the fly, but can't really recall how to do it, I
> personally just decided to boycott blu-ray and stick with DVDs, the
> quality is just fine on any devices that I watch movies on.

I have downloaded MKV now I need to download a compiler and header files.


> As I said, my info on this might be out of date, as it was about 2 years
> ago when I tried blu-ray on my new laptop with a blu-ray burner, and
> ended up taking the blu-ray disc back, and getting the dvd instead.
> 
> Someone else might know more, will be interesting to see if things have
> progressed and if so, if you manage to get it working easily.
> 
> Best of luck though 

Thanks


> M :)
> 
> On Thu, 2014-09-25 at 16:13 -0700, Bob wrote:
> > I have just installed an LG Blu-ray player on my system (Ubuntu 14.4).  Trying
> > to play a Blu-ray disc using the VLC media player I got the following error.
> > 
> > ----------
> > Blu-ray error:
> > No valid processing key found in AACS config file.
> > Your input can't be opened:
> > VLC is unable to open the MRL 'bluray:///dev/sr0'. Check the log for details.
> > ----------
> > 
> > What log file contains the error messages?
> > 
> > The folllowing is in the syslog file.
> > 
> > ----------
> > Sep 25 13:19:44 Jupiter kernel: [141194.895887] UDF-fs: INFO Mounting volume
> > 'TWELVE_CHAIRS_NA', timestamp 2009/07/15 17:26 (1e5c)
> > Sep 25 13:19:44 Jupiter udisksd[2706]: Mounted /dev/sr0 at
> > /media/bob1/TWELVE_CHAIRS_NA on behalf of uid 1000
> > ----------
> > 
> > Doing a google search I find many references on how to fix this problem.
> > 
> > Here is what I have done.
> > 
> > ----------
> > sudo apt-get install libdvdread4
> > sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
> > sudo apt-get install libbluray-bin
> > sudo add-apt-repository ppa:n-muench/vlc
> > sudo apt-get update
> > sudo apt-get install libaacs0 libbluray-bdj libbluray1
> > sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
> > mkdir -p ~/.config/aacs/
> > cd ~/.config/aacs/ && wget http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/files/KEYDB.cfg
> > ----------
> > 
> > Now I am getting the following error.
> > 
> > ----------
> > Blu-ray error:
> > This Blu-ray Disc needs a library for BD+ decoding, and your system does not
> > have it.
> > Your input can't be opened:
> > VLC is unable to open the MRL 'bluray:///dev/sr0'. Check the log for details.
> > ----------
> > 
> > What else do I need to do to get this working?

-- 
Robert Blair