On 27/04/14 18:20, Felix Miata wrote:
On 2014-04-27 17:58 (GMT+1000) Basil Chupin composed:
vlc is able to play DVDs, right? And it wouldn't be able to do so unless there were files available to be able to do so, right?
So why should playing Blu-ray discs be any different?
It's not an issue of "should", but of what "is". DRM evolved in between introduction of DVDs and Bluray. DVDs are only SD. Content owners weren't about to allow HD Bluray content to be easily pirated, thus what Dylan wrote is what is, and enabling BR on Linux is an exponentially bigger PITA than any media gone before.
You are simply playing around with what could be called semantics. In both instances the "protection" - just like the viruses - are cracked and means to circumvent them are found, often within hours. VLC works perfectly on my Windows 7 Professional. I downloaded VLC for W#7 directly from the VLC site. It was - as usual - a free download. VLC, which comes from videolan.org but massaged by whoever and which then comes from either packman or openSUSE, doesn't work with Bd discs. Why not? What would it take to make VLC work with Bd discs in openSUSE - $5/p.a. or $10/p.a. or $15/p.a.? Ok, I am happy to pay that. At the moment I am paying $0 to view Bd discs using VLC in Windows. Next point......... :-) . BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.0 & kernel 3.14.2-1 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