On 04/26/2013 05:07 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
I have just installed a Blu-Ray RW drive and in anticipation of doing this today I hired a few Blu-Ray discs to view over the weekend.
However, I am most disappointed because the damn thing does not want to play ball with the BD discs :'( .
Well, at least when it comes to using vlc with them :-( . vlc won't recognise them and won't play them even though the BD drive is recognised when I insert an ordinary DVD in the unit. All other discs are recognised and playable (Sl and DL DVDs, CDs).
I know that 'developers' have been fooling around with files and dependencies which have made applications stop working until an additional file has had to be installed, eg, python-kde4 -plasma, and vlc had to have the codecs installed as a separate dependency, but what else does vlc require to be able to play Blu-Ray DVDs?!
Does anyone, please, know what is required to get vlc to play Blu-Ray discs?
Never have I had hassles with vlc - until today with Blu-Ray discs :-( .
I have BD discs sitting here to be viewed so if anybody knows how to get vlc to play them I would be most grateful.
BC
Doing a bit of googling around you may be screwed, blewed and tattooed near term. Remember the hastles when DVD's first appeared and the hoops you had to jump through to play them in Linux. Well, Blue-Rays are even worse. It seems that it is possible of you know the right magical incantations [ command line strings ] and wave your bag of chicken bones over your computer. I would suggest you save yourself a carload of aggravation and just go down to your local Mega-Mart and buy a cheap Blue-Ray player. They aren't that expensive anymore. Just my humble opinion - Computers are wonderful for many things but movie playing is not their forte. In my little corner of the world [ *MY* space in our shared home office ] I have a 32 inch HD television, a Blue-Ray player, two different DVD players [ one a five disc changer ], a DVD recorder, a VHS recorder/player, a Directv box, an FTA satellite receiver, a surround sound and a Slingbox. All that so I don't have to mess with my computer, which I have other uses for, to watch a movie. -- “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” -Albert Einstein _ _... ..._ _ _._ ._ ..... ._.. ... .._ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org