cRTrn13
14th September 2009, 09:55
@cRTrn13
Hey thanks for the quick reply, awesome that you're writing a patch for mplayer to allow the playback for bluray!
as far as i understand the vc1 and h.264 videos are played back directly by hardware by the broadcom 7400 chip. I have also asked in the community what exactly is used to play back vc1 and h.264 content, but I am pretty sure its handled by hardware.
Concerining the drive , right now I don't have a bluray drive in the box since it cant play copy protected movies. I play ripped copies directly from the internal harddisk or over the network. But it is possible to build in any slimline drive.
Are specific drives better for playing blu ray discs in linux?
Is there any chance of getting mplayer to work with the broadcom chip? and if not , is there still hope to play back copy protected bluray discs?
Hmm.. I use an LG drive, not sure how the slimline drives perform (or whether there is patched firmware for the drives are anything) - maybe some else has some experience with that?
MPlayer should work fine with the broadcom chip. Whether it'll benefit from the hardware decoder, I'm not so sure (I'm not sure how one interfaces with it even). Someone could add support for this I suppose but it's probably a lot of work.
It would be interesting to see how this performs. You mention that you already play rips? With what software?
Hey thanks for the quick reply, awesome that you're writing a patch for mplayer to allow the playback for bluray!
as far as i understand the vc1 and h.264 videos are played back directly by hardware by the broadcom 7400 chip. I have also asked in the community what exactly is used to play back vc1 and h.264 content, but I am pretty sure its handled by hardware.
Concerining the drive , right now I don't have a bluray drive in the box since it cant play copy protected movies. I play ripped copies directly from the internal harddisk or over the network. But it is possible to build in any slimline drive.
Are specific drives better for playing blu ray discs in linux?
Is there any chance of getting mplayer to work with the broadcom chip? and if not , is there still hope to play back copy protected bluray discs?
Hmm.. I use an LG drive, not sure how the slimline drives perform (or whether there is patched firmware for the drives are anything) - maybe some else has some experience with that?
MPlayer should work fine with the broadcom chip. Whether it'll benefit from the hardware decoder, I'm not so sure (I'm not sure how one interfaces with it even). Someone could add support for this I suppose but it's probably a lot of work.
It would be interesting to see how this performs. You mention that you already play rips? With what software?