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Serious question: can you play a blu-ray with Ubuntu? Also how do you do netflix streaming (if you do)? I went i3 and Windows 7 so i can get blu-ray + netflix

• ZoFreX 16y ago
  Blu-ray is the one thing XBMC can't do, I have a stand-alone player so I've never looked into the options for playing them on a PC. That said, people are pretty good at stealing decryption keys, and once the encryption is dealt with you're left with fairly standard video format that XBMC (and many other players) could play and accelerate. The other issue would be the interactive menus, but perhaps working out which title is the main film and just playing that would be satisfactory for most people? It doesn't seem insurmountable, a good place to look for that kind of information would be the Doom9 forums. As for netflix streaming, I'm in the UK, so I know nothing about that! I know it doesn't integrate nicely with XBMC and it isn't easy to do in Linux, though. Edit: Forgot to mention that the XBMC Windows version has come along in leaps and bounds recently and now runs quite smoothly on my laptop, so if you play things other than bluray and netflix you might want to check it out.