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<blockquote data-quote="Spooky" data-source="post: 877228" data-attributes="member: 11539">In order to play Blu-Rays via MediaPortal (either now with the <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/bluray-handler-0-9-7-beta.81068/" target="_blank">BluRay Handler Plugin</a> or <a href="https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/native-blu-ray-support.102375/" target="_blank">natively in the future</a>) we must rely on Software like <a href="http://www.slysoft.com/de/anydvdhd.html" target="_blank">AnyDVD HD</a> or <a href="http://www.dvdfab.com/passkey-for-blu-ray.htm" target="_blank">Passkey</a>.&nbsp;I only have some experience with AnyDVD HD. I noticed that with some Blu-Rays it takes a very long time until AnyDVD HD has finished analyzing the Blu-Ray. It's of course bad for the usability, if you have to wait 5 or 10 minutes or may be even longer until you can finally play that Blu-Ray (and additionally, after the Blu-Ray has been processed by AnyDVD HD, it takes a rather long time again until MediaPortal displays the available index.bdmv files. But I read somewhere, that this will be improved in the future at least).&nbsp;So I was wondering, does anyone know why this process takes so long? What factors increase the processing time of analyzing the Blu-Ray by AnyDVD HD? i.e. does CPU power play a role, or something else, or is it simply only Blu-Ray dependent, or even dependent on the Blu-Ray drive? Also, what exactly is doing AnyDVD HD (or Passkey) when analyzing the Blu-Ray? (Yes, it's decrypting, but what exactly is it decrypting, surely not the whole Blu-Ray content.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Spooky, post: 877228, member: 11539"] In order to play Blu-Rays via MediaPortal (either now with the [url=https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/bluray-handler-0-9-7-beta.81068/]BluRay Handler Plugin[/url] or [url=https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/native-blu-ray-support.102375/]natively in the future[/url]) we must rely on Software like [url=http://www.slysoft.com/de/anydvdhd.html]AnyDVD HD[/url] or [url=http://www.dvdfab.com/passkey-for-blu-ray.htm]Passkey[/url]. I only have some experience with AnyDVD HD. I noticed that with some Blu-Rays it takes a very long time until AnyDVD HD has finished analyzing the Blu-Ray. It's of course bad for the usability, if you have to wait 5 or 10 minutes or may be even longer until you can finally play that Blu-Ray (and additionally, after the Blu-Ray has been processed by AnyDVD HD, it takes a rather long time again until MediaPortal displays the available index.bdmv files. But I read somewhere, that this will be improved in the future at least). So I was wondering, does anyone know [i]why[/i] this process takes so long? What factors increase the processing time of analyzing the Blu-Ray by AnyDVD HD? i.e. does CPU power play a role, or something else, or is it simply only Blu-Ray dependent, or even dependent on the Blu-Ray drive? Also, what exactly [i]is[/i] doing AnyDVD HD (or Passkey) when analyzing the Blu-Ray? (Yes, it's decrypting, but what exactly is it decrypting, surely not the whole Blu-Ray content.) [/QUOTE]

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