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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Blu Ray Copying
From:       John Layt <johnlayt () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2014-01-09 0:22:00
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On 8 January 2014 22:10, Jim Sabatke <jsabatke@gmail.com> wrote:
> I hope this is an appropriate subject for this list.  I have an idea to buy
> a large disk array with a high speed USB card for my desktop and copy my Blu
> Ray disk collection to the disks and then have the desktop serve them to my
> media center.
>
> I have researched this on Google and it seems possible, but I've tried so
> many things that people say work and it turns out they don't, and I can't
> afford to make a mistake.
>
> If anyone would know if this can be done considering the copy protection on
> the disks I would appreciate any insights.  I am already doing this with
> DVDs that are NOT copy protected by copying each DVD to its own directory.
> I haven't worked out how to serve them to any of my A/V media yet, but I can
> use kaffeine.  I know there are boxes for accessing media over networks
> though devices like Roku.

Firstly, usual disclaimers apply, in some jurisdictions doing this is
illegal, it is your responsibility to check if you are allowed to do
this, don't hold me responsible if the NSA reports you to the MPAA,
etc.  Secondly, while a number of options are being worked on to allow
native access, such as VLC, they all eventually run into the problem
that they need a DRM key to allow them to decrypt the protected
blu-rays.  No-one has reverse-engineered a key yet, and even if they
did they can be blacklisted on future blu-rays.

There is one app however that is legal in its home country and so has
managed to get a key, and it runs on Linux.  This is MakeMkv, which
allows you to rip the movie to a .mkv file which can be played by most
media players, or to stream from the blu-ray directly.  It also works
for DVDs.  MakeMkv is closed source and requires a licence key, but is
currently free while in beta.  You can install it from an OBS repo at
[1], then get the required key at [2].

After the initial rip, if the mkv files are too big (it rips at 100%
quality) then use something like HandBrake to reduce the size/quality.
 If you plan to have a separate HTPC box then I recommend using XBMC
for the front-end, and sharing the files via nfs or smb shares.  DLNA
is also an option.

John.

[1] http://software.opensuse.org/package/makemkv?search_term=makemkv
[2] http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1053
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