[Flybye]

Hi all.

Does this exist? I'm thinking of slapping Ubuntu on a system with a Blu-Ray drive and using it with my 52" LCD.

[bigtomrodney]

To my knowledge there is no official way to do this yet due to the encryption used on the discs. There is a way around it though it is a little cumbersome and involves ripping the disc first.

Check out This link

[a12ctic]

You can burn to a BD-R but there is no playback at the moment. I'm pretty sure that'll take a while especaily since its loaded up with sonys crapware DRM.

[Flybye]

I had read about this problem last year, and was hoping it still wasn't the case. Guess I was wrong. But I'm sure a player exists for windoze, eh?

Wow...it's just that I installed Ubuntu last week for the first time....and simply fell in love. Unfortunately, I really can't have it on my main system due to a lot of games that I play and engineering software that I use, but on a home theater system...it is simply perfect.

A shame I'm not the only one in my house. Otherwise, I'd go for using Ubuntu for the Blu-Ray with this method. I don't think everyone here will be too willing to dump and play. Hmm....

I'm very knew at this so forgive my ignorance, but the command lines...I'm sure there IS a way to create a desktop shortcut for those, right? Or perhaps even finding someone who has written a small script which automates the entire dumping and playing process?

[bigtomrodney]

Well the cool thing with scripts is you just put the commands into a text file with a shabang header like

#!/bin/bash

It's not as hard as it seems, just a little different. Then you're free to make it executable and create a shortcut. If you have something in mind we'd be glad to help.

[Flybye]

Thanks Bigtom! I think I'll order myself the Blu-ray drive and play with it on a lil 1.5ghz PIV system that I have here with a X1600 card. Ubuntu candy should look decent. After I'm comfy with how it looks and with some manual Blu-Ray dumping, then I'll start asking for exact how tos to simplify the process.