On 13/03/16 02:06, Aaron Digulla wrote:
I have a copy of VLC installed on my Windows 7 partition and here I have no problems viewing Bd discs. Same software but different libraries. Windows comes with the necessary software to play BluRay. BR is designed to strip you of any rights that
Am 12.03.2016 um 06:49 schrieb Basil Chupin: the owner of the BluRay doesn't want you to have - the owner is the guy who got your money, not you. You just got some plastic. If you're able to watch BR on your computer, that's a bonus, not a right. It just means that you jumped through enough hoops (JavaScript active countermeasures, HDMI encryption for audio and video just to name a few) to make someone on this planet happy. So here is your treat. Play dead. Come on. You know you want to. Good boy.
A lot of people put a lot of money into a system to make sure DeCSS doesn't happen again. Instead of creating a perfect system, they build something which makes it frustrating to Linux users. Viewers have to invest a lot of time and effort into making BR work on Linux. Like spending four to five hours to follow obscure instructions on the Internet, installing software from strange places, threatening their own security and sanity. Just to watch a single movie. And then do the same when they want to watch the next because ... for some inexplicable reason, something breaks after the first one. To watch BR, you have to spend money. If the hardware key for your BR drive in your computer is spilled, you can be out of luck on Windows, too.
Bottom line: If you're using Windows or Mac or a hardware BR player, good for you. If not: They are not meant for you, you thief!
This might be of interest for you: https://defectivebydesign.org/
Regards,
Oh, Sir! Please do not be angry with me nor hit me again! I promise to try and avoid wanting Linux to be able to read and play Blu-Ray discs -- it is so naughty of me I know :-( . I'll just stay with what works and leave braindead Linux alone. ASIDE: I really don't know why those arty companies keep trying to come up with "protection" for their shoddy goods when as soon as a new attempt at "protection" is introduced it is "cracked" within hours. Why do they bother? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.4.5-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org