Wednesday 14 November 2012

Playing Bluray in Ubuntu 12.10

AACS DRM is preventing native playback of Bluray discs on Ubuntu, to reslve this a few steps needs to be followed.

Obtain a copy of a Keys database (KEYDB.CFG)

Created ~/.config/aacs/ folder

Copied KEYDB.cfg (updated 20/04/2012) into this folder

Install the AACS Dynamic library, two methods available

  1. download libaacs.so.0 and copy it into /usr/lib/ or /usr/lib64/ alternatively
  2. Install it from the repository: apt-get install libaacs0

Option 2 was the prefered option for me.

Afterwards open VideoLAN (VLC) and playback your commercial Bluray on your Ubuntu platform.

VideoLAN 2.0.4 was used for the test.

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8 comments:

  1. Hunter Todd8 May 2013 at 11:14

    VLC is one of the most widely used media players. It was one of the first open source media players to get encrypted DVD playback capability, and now, it looks like the time has come for Blu-ray playback capability also.

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  2. Enrique A. Black29 June 2013 at 05:55

    VLC is one of the most widely used media players. It was one of the first open source media players to get encrypted DVD playback capability, and now, it looks like the time has come for Blu-ray playback capability also.

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  3. Heather P. Randall11 July 2013 at 10:53

    VLC is one of the most widely used media players. It was one of the first open source media players to get encrypted DVD playback capability, and now, it looks like the time has come for Blu-ray playback capability also.

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  4. Jared W. Fisher17 July 2013 at 19:08

    The result allows for easy playback of a large number of Blu-Ray movies in Linux.

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  5. Carter Ingram18 July 2013 at 16:10

    You can now safely delete the folder $HOME/vlc_build/live and its contents. This syntax may seem a little overly complex but live555 vlc can be a little tricky and at the moment the syntax given here works well enough. Now for bluray playback.

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  6. Robert U. Johnson19 July 2013 at 07:02

    is an open-source library designed for Blu-Ray Discs playback for media players, like VLC or MPlayer.

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  7. Elmo Schwartz20 July 2013 at 12:52

    You can now safely delete the folder $HOME/vlc_build/live and its contents. This syntax may seem a little overly complex but live555 vlc can be a little tricky and at the moment the syntax given here works well enough. Now for bluray playback.

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  8. Cherie Fuentes26 July 2013 at 11:14

    You can now safely delete the folder $HOME/vlc_build/live and its contents. This syntax may seem a little overly complex but live555 vlc can be a little tricky and at the moment the syntax given here works well enough. Now for bluray playback.

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