BluRay (1 Viewer)

[mivi71dk]

Hi

Will MP 1.1.0 play BluRay as is,or do I need a plugin or to change some settings?

Michael

 

[etheesdad]

You will find that a Forum title search for "blu" will give you plenty of answers to your question

The short answer is that blu-ray is encrypted and you need a licensed player to decode it. There are a couple of popular players that have plugin support with MP.

 

[mivi71dk]

Thank you

 

[jonaskp]

ACtually, that is not entirely correct (the part about searching might be though ;-)).
MediaPortal can play Blu-ray, with a little help. AnyDVD HD is used for stripping the disc of the encryption. After this, you can play the Blu-ray using the internal player. You just have to either find the correct stream on the disc or if you use MovingPictures the plugin can do this for you.

The problem is, MediaPortal does nopt recognize and show Subtitles. It doesn't recognize the audio tracks either, but it will play the audio, and you can switch between the streams (although you are doing it blind, since you don't know which is which).
So if you don't care about subtitles (I know I do, so this is not an option for me), you can actually play your Blu-rays internally in MediaPortal.

Otherwise you need and external player, like PowerDVD or Total Media Theatre.
The last option is to rip your Blu-rays to harddrive and then either demux only the subtitles or demux the entire disc, repacking it into .mkv. Then MediaPortal will play it, and show you subtitles correctly.
See this thread, where I got some answers on how to demux Blu-rays.


btw, Mivi71dk, you are from recordere.dk, right?

 

[mivi71dk]

Hi Jonas

Yes - Im from recordere.dk

I believe I look up my licens to PowerDVD which I have somewhere.
MP along with PowerDVD should do the job.
but as of now - BluRay is something I will look into within a few weeks.
Next big step is 4 The Record

Thx for the replys

Mivi

 

[jonaskp]

If you don't yet have the Blu-ray drive, chances are that a license to PowerDVD is bundled with it when you buy.
And yes, go get ForTheRecord up and running. Your HTPC will love you for it

 

[mivi71dk]

I really suspect I will.

4 The record really sounds great. eventhough the most important thing for me here is the ability to access my EPG and schedule recordings.
The rest is pure benefits

When I bought my BluRay Drive there was a CD with it. I believe it also contains a player.
I just went through my mails, and Im afraid that my licens to my PowerDVD has been lost with a computer crash I had some time ago

 

[jonaskp]

Probably the CD you got, also has the license key printed on it. That was how I got my PowerDVD license.