Legal Blueray Playback on Ubuntu

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Legal Blueray Playback on Ubuntu

510 points posted to Linux by prisma Jan 9 **UNDER REVIEW**

Ubuntu have a legal way to play DVD's with LinDVD on current Dell hardware offers which we the customers appreciate. However, windows hardware products come with an option to add a blueray player. Dell should add that option as well to their Ubuntu offers. A commercially available piece of software (like LinDVD) could be implemented to play blueray DVDs.

tekhawk Jan 10	does anyone know of a way to currently do this from what ive seen you have to backup the disc first
howlingmadhowie Jan 13	i'm torn on this one. of course the future of media on the computer is found at sites like piratebay.org, so a blueray drive is pretty pointless for films or similar. on the other hand, you could use a recordable blueray drive to back up large amounts of data, and it could start to replace the tape drive.
matt_d Jan 14	Enabling Blu-Ray playback is under investigation. The current LinDVD software cannot play such media, so the Linux team is investigating how to add that functionality to the product offering.
jdelidc Jan 14	thanks for all the updates
matt_d Jan 19	Changed status to UNDER REVIEW.
zanlok Feb 1	then the issue will be that Sony will want Dell to ensure enforcement of the blu-ray region codes.. ick.. hopefully Dell can dodge that somewhow. be sure the BD-DL write capability is available, too! (yes, for backup)
dashcloud Feb 8	I'm not Matt_d, but from reading about Blu-Ray, AACS, and how AMD handles things in their graphics cards, I can say pretty confidently that it can't happen without giant changes: huge binary modules to the decryption, and then other modules to protect those. Remember- on Windows the whole operating system is designed to accomodate AACS material- how much of that is actually needed is debatable, but it shows you that watching a Blu-Ray movie is much, much more involved than watching a DVD.
aikiwolfie Feb 10	AMD? Don't the Linux systems run with either Intel or Nvidia graphics? Nvidia in particular have always offered excellent support for Linux even if they are only offering a binary driver. When something needs to change, they change it.
howlingmadhowie Feb 10	This is a remarkable situation. how the pc has changed. in the early days, you were allowed to know what the hardware did, allowed to know what the software did. now people make money by installing hideous binary blobs all over your computer. and the world just gets stupider and stupider. now we have a system where it will be impossible to watch a film on a computer without totally surrendering control over the system.
jorge Feb 23	HD-DVD is dead BlueRay Wins
aikiwolfie Feb 23	Yep Toshiba are pulling out. So sad. But that's they way these format wars go. Somebody has to lose.
howlingmadhowie Feb 24	aikiwolfie: it's quite possible to have multiple successful formats if you allow transformation between them, an example: you are going to a friend's house to watch a film. the friend can however only play format a and the film is in format b. you have players and burners for formats a and b (now that they have dropped to fifty dollars each), so you burn a high definition copy in format a, the problem is not multiple formats, the problem is that they are being deliberately kept incompatible.
aikiwolfie Feb 24	Well that's all nice in theory howlingmadhowie but that fact is Hollywood doesn't allow that sort of thing. Every body is supposed to buy an individual copy of their very own. If your neighbours can even hear what you're watching, you're technically in breach of copyright. The licence you purchased really is that tight. It's also not very profitable for Toshiba to continue pushing a format with little to no meaningful content. Blue-ray has won the day. Which was a bit pointless because in 3 to 5 years time it'll be replaced by something else.
howlingmadhowie Feb 25	that was my point, that it's not about different formats but about artificially limiting consumers in what they can do with their own posessions. even to play a dvd we are forced by law to give up any hope we may have ever had of knowing what our computers are doing. we are forced to allow a company access to all information we have stored on the device and give the company the capability of using our computer for whatever it wants. this is not about us paying repeatedly for 90 year old films (where everybody who worked on the film died long ago and copyright back then was a lot shorter than now) or about us being fined 100 000 pounds for having a pdf on our computer (which happened recently in england). this is about total control in the great war against terror. the next step in this war will be mandatory installation of software on every computer to monitor internet usage and scan all attached storage media for copyright infringing material. in germany, for example, the government has already written and started distributing trojans to do this.
aikiwolfie Feb 25	The only company I know of that has placed such requirements in it's license agreement is Microsoft. The solution there is quite simple. Don't use Windows. Switch to something else. Switch to the Mac or Linux. If that's not acceptable. Keep all sensitive data about yourself off of your PC. Who was fined £100,000 in England for having a PDF? I never saw that on the news. How exactly is this linked to the "war on terror". Which we all know is a smoke screen for the "war on nations with oil not selling at the price we want". They're doing what in Germany? Why would they need to write torjans to do this? All internet and global communications are already monitored. There's a facility in England that does this, one or two in Australia, a few in the US and some in mainland Europe.
zanlok Feb 26	Now that Linux can do .NET (very nearly mostly well), this is very true.
aikiwolfie Feb 27	What's true?
zanlok Feb 28	not the monitoring. I didn't word that well at all. I was commenting on the viability of just using linux even in cases where a need is there for use of certain key applications.
darthomer May 24	Please could you look at something I want to know how dell thinks about this its at http://www.dellideastorm.com/article/show/10089044/The_XPS_M2030
aikiwolfie May 25	What does that have to do with this thread? Stop spamming the forum. If people like your idea it'll get the promotes. Then Dell will look at it. That's how IdeaStorm thing works. Well in theory anyway. But stop being such a spammer!
darthomer May 25	I'm not being a spammer I just want my FIRST POST to be noticed and the tag "laptop power" I thought was Performance not Battery Life

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