On 25/04/14 17:58, Dylan wrote:
On 25/04/14 08:14, Basil Chupin wrote:
I have a copy of Windows 7 Professional installed - not installed in a virtual drive - and have the VLC (version 2.1.3 for Windows) installed there.
Last night I booted into W#7 to watch a Blu-ray disc but accidentally (force of habit I guess as VLC is what I use in openSUSE) selected VLC to view this Bd disc.
To my total surprise VLC played that Bd disc perfectly and flawlessly!
However, when I went back to openSUSE VLC (which is version 2.1.4, btw) in openSUSE had a hernia (as usual) and wouldn't even recognise that a Bd disc was inserted!
So, the question is: why is VLC in Windows able to perfectly play Bd discs while in openSUSE it is a brain-dead application re Blu-ray?
I have checked in YaST and there are libbluray* rpms installed.
I know that this debate took place not long ago about whether to have VLC from openSUSE or from videolan.org installed and I am now wondering if this debate was more relevant than thought at that time.
The VLC for Windows which I have installed comes from videolan.org itself, but the VLC which doesn't play Bd discs in openSUSE comes from openSUSE.
Not from packman?
Sorry, my apologies - I misread the entry in YasT. VLC and associated files *are* from packman.
Just as DVDs need libdvdcss for decoding, commercial blu-rays need libaacs - but unlike dvds where the encryption keys are well known and unchanging, AACS has keys and (revokable) certificates which are not part of the decryption library and must be obtained elsewhere (possibly illegally...) See http://www.videolan.org/developers/libaacs.html for starters...
I can only assume that the AACS keys/certificates/licenses are legitimately available for Win7 etc...
Well, I have the libaacs* files (also from packman) installed on 13.1 and which appear to be the same version number as the one(s) in Windows. Since VLC for Windows comes from the same stable as the one for openSUSE then there must be another reason why vlc works perfectly in Windows but not in openSUSE (I don't know how it works in other distros). BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.0 & kernel 3.14.1-1 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