Re: dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playing blu ray movies etc....

2010-12-29 Thread Michael Fothergill
Thanks a lot for enlightening me about this On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Roland Rosier wrote: > > Hello Micheal, > > I have attempted to create a HTPC using Debian recently and one of the > biggest problems was trying to play Blu-Ray disks. > > Whilst I believe that it is pos

RE: dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playing blu ray movies etc....

2010-12-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Qua, 29 Dez 2010, Roland Rosier wrote: It is possible that MakeMKV (http://www.makemkv.com/) is able to solve all of these issues by transcoding the Blu-Ray into a MKV format container.  I did read somewhere that it can run on Wine.  I don't know if it can re-assemble a split movie from t

RE: dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playing blu ray movies etc....

2010-12-29 Thread Roland Rosier
Hello Micheal, I have attempted to create a HTPC using Debian recently and one of the biggest problems was trying to play Blu-Ray disks. Whilst I believe that it is possible to burn Data Only Blu-Rays on Linux using K3B, this is a different issue to burning a Video Blu-Ray that can be read by

Re: dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playing blu ray movies etc....

2010-12-28 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Michael Fothergill wrote: > ... > Can you burn blu ray disks in debian? >... > Michael Fothergill Hmm, as far as I know the original cdrecord [1] from the original cdrtools has been advertised to burn BluRay for quiet a while now. I don't have BluRay media, so I

dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playing blu ray movies etc....

2010-12-28 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I have been investigating the world of 3D TV and Blu ray players etc..  I also found a blu ray drive for a PC in a store I visited.  Googling around seems to produce some funny results.  Some web pages say that no OS can handle blu ray including Windows 7 even though the dr

dumb question about blu ray drive configuration and playing blu ray movies etc....

2010-12-28 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I have been investigating the world of 3D TV and Blu ray players etc.. I also found a blu ray drive for a PC in a store I visited. Googling around seems to produce some funny results. Some web pages say that no OS can handle blu ray including Windows 7 even though the dri