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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