> Chua KianTeck <chua_kianteck@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara@gmail.com>
> > To: Discussion about mythtv <mythtv-users@mythtv.org>
> > Sent: Friday, 16 July 2010 09:49:24
> > Subject: [mythtv-users] Blu-ray Playback
> > 
> > Thought some of you might enjoy this.
> > 
> > Over the past several months, a number of us have been working hard at
> > Blu-ray playback in Myth.  The libraries used are still in their
> > infancy, but as of tonight, although not easy (and requires the
> > installation of some external libs and editing of key files for them,
> > as well as some configuration unique to each drive), it is possible to
> > play back some retail blu-ray disks, direct from the disk, in MythTV.
> > Disks which are AACS-protected only with MKV versions 10 or less will
> > play successfully straight off the disk.  To give you some idea, I
> > have a few dozen films, all a few years old, with the newest being The
> > Dark Knight.  All play successfully in Myth.
> > 
> > Thanks to some collaboration amongst a number of us, Blu-ray playback,
> > (limited) encrypted Blu-ray playback, chapter navigation, correct
> > seeking, and title switching between the various items on the disk are
> > all possible, including proper playback of the HD Audio codecs at
> > their native bit depths and numbers of channels thanks to the work of
> > Jean Yves and Foobum, in trunk, which will ultimately become MythTV
> > 0.24 in a couple months.  I daresay MythTV has by far the most
> > advanced native Blu-ray playback implementation in Linux.  The above
> > features are not available by default in MPlayer, XBMC, Xine, VLC, or
> > anywhere else.
> > 
> > I'll reiterate that it's not easy, there are some configuration
> > hurdles (all outside of Myth code) to overcome to make retail disk
> > playback work, but it is very, very possible.
> > 
> > Robert
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> 
> I'll say woot!!  Great job Myth developers!  Now I can justify to the 
> wife for 
> purchasing that Blu-ray drive for the MythTV setup.
> 
> Cheers
> 

Indeed, woot hoot!!
I could RE-justify the drive I bought a couple of years ago ;-)
...and I could delete the windows partition on my lounge-room box.
This is an amazing milestone, I can't wait to see your results.
Fingers crossed,
Glen

PS: my first born child is still two months away if it comes to that ;-) .... just don't tell the wife