Forum - View topicA question about FUNimation's Blu-rays.
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zgripţuroicǎ
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Not positive this is the right forum, but it seemed the best to ask this. I'm running Linux on my laptop, and I've got an HD-DVD/Blu-ray drive. I saw some Funimation Blu-rays on sale and I'd love to get them, but first I wanted to ask if anyone knew if Funimation used encryption on their Blu-rays that would prevent me from being able to watch them without purchasing a separate Blu-Ray Player. If not, I'll probably still buy them and just wait until I can use my drive to watch them, but I thought I'd ask first. I've heard several companies as using forms of encryption on there Blu-ray releases that are currently nigh on impossible to get around to play the disk on Linux systems, but I'm kind of hoping Funi isn't one of them. Anyone who can say definitively one way or another whether these disks will play out of the box?
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Shiroi Hane
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I believe to play any commercial blu-ray disc you will need licensed decoding software or something more illicit to crack the encryption.
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dewlwieldthedarpachief
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Working around DRM isn't illegal in the USA or Canada, correct?
Slysoft offers trial decryption software for Blu-ray content. As long as your computer is equipped with HDCP compliant graphics, a capable display, and competant software you should be able to figure out whatever problems that are bound to occur every once in a while. It's also worth mentioning that while there are many licenses attached to Blu-ray software, there are still freeware methods of playing back content. For instance, Media Player Classic Home Cinema while not equipped for BD disc playback can still read the files on the disc making it fairly usable most of the time. That said, if HTPC is in any way new to you I'd recommend aquainting yourself with some dedicated forums - it gets complicated. As far as I know, Linux won't take you too far on that front either. |
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zgripţuroicǎ
Posts: 140 Location: Newburgh, NY |
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Any open source software that allows Blu-ray playback is technically illegal software in the US and many other countries.. Even playing DVDs or mp3s on Linux is technically a criminal act in these same countries. It's rather annoying, because I have a Blu-ray drive, but I can't play any BR movies or TV series that I've legally purchased because of asinine legislation. I'm only asking this because I've heard some studios produce BR discs that will simply play on a BR drive, and don't include any fancy encryption. I'd really love to buy some Funi releases, but I'm holding out hope of learning that they are one of those few companies whose products I can use now.
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dewlwieldthedarpachief
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I wonder if simple .m2ts playback is? With MPC all you do is just pick one of those like you would a .vob... And doesn't all Blu-ray content have to play nice with HTPC? I didn't know you could do that on Linux. My entertainment turning into a waiting game of "who will make x feature feasible" is one of the reasons I can't get excited about HTPC. My dream is to grab a BDP-83 and DLNA everything or slap together a media tank with a VP-50! Ah, the multimedia of PC with the power of dedicated hardware... |
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zgripţuroicǎ
Posts: 140 Location: Newburgh, NY |
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No, not everything has to play nice on an HDCP line, which is what I'm assuming you mean. That's the whole point of the movie industry pushing HDCP, so that they can restrict what you do by not allowing the feed to go to undirected monitors or hard drives. HDMI has no such problem built in as far as I know. I've read about .m2ts playback, but all the solutions for doing that I've seen have involved ripping the entire disk to your hard drive, which isn't something I really want to do every time I decide to watch a series or a film.
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Shiroi Hane
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With AnyDVD you can play the m2ts files straight from the disc without ripping, however it doesn't work on Linux (it doesn't work on my underpowered Windows laptop either mind; it just stutters or goes out of sync or plays without sound - which is a pity as the main point of buying the software was was so I can take screencaps from BDs. Also so I can play region A discs, but since I don't actually have any yet..)
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