On 03/05/14 09:36, lynn wrote:
On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 07:47 -0500, Billie Walsh wrote:
A Blueray at 1080p IS the best.
Hi If we copied the files from a blueray disk to a usb stick and played them with vlc, would we get the same quality?
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.
Or is there something else on a blueray that we don't know about? No one I know has blueray. Isn't it just a dvd with more gb?
The disc itself is (at a simplified basic level) a higher capacity DVD (it uses a blue 'laser' rather than the red one that DVD uses - hence the name - and the shorter wavelength allows higher data density.) The extra capacity allows the media files stored on the disc to be encoded at a higher resolution and bit-rate than DVD and they are usually encrypted with AACS. There can also be scripted content on the disc to control menus and 'extras'. Dx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org