<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:23 AM, Eric Sharkey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eric@lisaneric.org">eric@lisaneric.org</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="Ih2E3d">On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard <<a href="mailto:jyavenard@gmail.com">jyavenard@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> However, Linux support is pretty-much non-existent right now.<br>
But the essentials do work. If all you want is to rip and play the<br>movie, and you don't care about the games/fancy menus and such, and<br>you're willing to rip first and watch later, then it's fair to say<br>
that all of the important parts of BluRay playing are working. The<br>picture and sound quality is vastly superior.<br><br>(Caveat: Some of the newest discs still require Slysoft's AnyDVD<br>decryptor for the ripping stage.)<br>
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<div>Agreed. I kind of like everything coming through my Myth interface and don't have a stand-alone player. Ripping first doesn't take that long (and AnyDVD will run under a VM by the way). You do need a beefy front-end to playback. Or - use use the nvidia beta drivers and mplayer using VDPAU (just for movies - not myth), or use a recent SVN of handbrake to transcode to a slightly less demanding bitrate (which still gives you much better quality than a DVD, but of course you loose a *bit* of quality.) </div>
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