On 2014-05-03 11:01, Dylan wrote:
You still wouldn't be able to play the files because the contents are encrypted with the AACS keys and certificates. If you can get VLC to play them, it may be able to extract the contents in the same way it does with DVDs, but the decoding-recoding cycle would degrade the image quality just as it does when extracting DVDs.
You can rip the data from a DVD without recoding, just decrypt. No quality loss. The recoding is done to reduce file size further, the DVD data was too large to fit into a single DVD as burned on computers. But you do not need to do it if you do not want to, hard disks are large enough. I guess that a similar situation applies to blurays. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)