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I just recently built a new workstation, including a Blu-Ray/DVD/CD burner. After seeing the recent announcement here about Handbrake, I grabbed the closest DV
by jlgaddis 10y ago
I just recently built a new workstation, including a Blu-Ray/DVD/CD burner. After seeing the recent announcement here about Handbrake, I grabbed the closest DVD, fired up VLC, watched the first few minutes of it, and shortly afterwards I had ripped and encoded one of the episodes to a file I can watch on my Roku.
The only hacking I did was to install libdvd-pkg or something like that.
- swiley 10y agoLast time I checked, some early blueray DVDs will work on Linux but newer ones will brick your blueray reader.
- jlgaddis 10y agoWow, that's crazy. I haven't really used the drive other than what I mentioned. I just grabbed the nearest DVD (disc 2 of 3 of season 7 of "The Big Bang Theory"), popped it in, and it just worked. That was just a quick "test" to see how difficult it was nowadays to rip/encode DVDs (I haven't done that for probably eight years or so and it was a major PITA back then). I was planning on doing the same to most of our "media collection" so I'm hoping it continues to go well. Thanks for the heads up. I'll be looking more into this.
- khedoros1 10y agoThe AACS key file is updated every now and then. I get it from here: http://www.labdv.com/aacs/ http://www.labdv.com/aacs/ I've run into some recent disks that I can't play, but never one that actually damaged my blu-ray drive.
- Hydraulix989 10y ago"but newer ones will brick your blueray reader" Source? I don't even see how this could be possible.
- digi_owl 10y agoSay hello to DRM. Best i recall they introduced a updated DRM system for BR some years after launch, and to play those discs one need to either firmware update or replace the player. Never mind that the BR spec has all kinds of weirdness, including things like bundled Java applets(?!). All in all, its problems like these that keeps us torrenting.