Blu-Ray and Linux

[E.S. Rosenberg]

2013/6/9 Omer Zak <w1 at zak.co.il>:
> I am contemplating buying a Blu-Ray drive for connecting to a PC running
> Linux, and am currently clueless about the availability of desirable
> features at reasonable price and about Linux support.
>
> So if any of you has experience with Blu-Ray under Linux, please share
> with us your experiences.
>
> 1. Is there any CSS (like DVD) that needs to be taken into account?
Blu-Ray has a 'stronger' encryption system which supposedly also
allows for replacing the encryption keys, there are quite a few
encryption keys known and if I'm not mistaken vlc starting verion 2
supports blu-ray and hd-dvd.
However the heavier encryption does mean that decrypting in software
instead of leveraging the hardware requires much beefier hardware.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD
http://askubuntu.com/questions/140080/playing-blu-ray-using-vlc

> 2. Regions, like in DVD?
Did you honestly expect the MPAA to learn from it's mistakes?
They did reduce the amount of regions a bit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc#Region_codes

> 3. Are Blu-Ray burners available today for reasonable prices?
define reasonable, an internal Blu-Ray drive costs several times the
price of a DVD drive but prices have dropped a lot, in Israel a quick
check shows you can get them for under 500NIS these days.

> 4. Are Blu-Ray players and burners currently supported by Linux - for
> files, audio and video?
It seems programs exist to do it....
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/CD_Burning
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2089952

> 5. Any other Linux-related features I should be on the lookout for?
Don't have it myself so can't tell you, barely ever burn a CD so don't
see a reason to swicth to Blu-Ray.
If you intend to use it for long term backup please be aware that
optical media deteriorates over time, so you either need to verify the
data periodically or re-burn periodically.
HTH,
Eliyahu - אליהו
>
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> --- Omer
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