On Jul 26, 2015 12:32 PM, "Bruce Dubbs" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Douglas R. Reno wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> As I have been working on looking into adding Blu-Ray support per my >> ticket, I am having some issues. Most blu-rays are encrypted using >> AACS format. There are several issues with the keys as newer Blu-Rays >> can revoke the key on the drive, as well as the ones that you get. The >> user will have to grab AACS keys from a website. This stuff is very >> confusing in how it works. >> >> I propose that we add the libraries and such, but refer them to the >> Arch Wiki for adding AACS and BDPlus keys, as we *might* run into >> legal issues if we tell them directly where to get the keys from. The >> Arch Wiki page that we could send them to is this: >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Blu-ray >> >> >> One program that we can drop into the book to do AACS keys is >> "aacskeys". I do not necessarily feel comfortable with putting that in >> there as the license is Custom. >> >> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aacskeys/ >> >> >> That would be package number 4 to add to the book if we decide to do >> it that way. >> >> Currently it looks as though MPlayer, VLC, and Xine can do Blu-Ray >> playback. Note that for at least VLC, FFMPEG will have to be built >> with libbluray support. Now that I have my Blu-Ray drive, I will add >> the addition of the packages into my to-do list (Hopefully before our >> release). Dependency wise: >> >> libaacs: >> (Required): libgcrypt >> >> libbdplus: >> (Required): libaacs >> >> libbluray: >> (Required) for BD-J: OpenJDK >> (Required) for BD-J: Apache-ant >> (Required): fontconfig >> (Required): freetype >> (Required): libxml2 >> (Runtime): libaacs libbdplus >> >> (If we add this) aacskeys: >> openssl > > > I am reluctant to add this to the book for a couple of reasons. First, you are the only editor that I know that has a bluray drive so none of us can test updates if you are not available. Second, the number of persons actually needing this is, I believe, pretty small. > > It would be better to create a hint for this that does not have to be updated regularly or checked at each BLFS release. I do not have a problem referencing a hint in the main book in the appropriate chapters (MPlayer, VLC, Xine, etc). > > -- Bruce > Ok I can agree with that. I will take care of the ticket later.
Douglas R. Reno
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