[gst-devel] status of HD-DVD and Bluray support in GStreamer

[Bastien Nocera]

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 00:05 +0300, Kirill Belokurov wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Sorry if this maillist is not an appropriate one for asking this question, but 
> are there any plans to add support of HD-DVD and Bluray playback to GStreamer 
> (and -based applications)? As far as I can tell, there are two major tasks:
> 
> 1) support of demuxing/decoding = playback itself (which I believe is easy to 
> add - the recent ffmpeg already contains the VC-1 decoder and demuxing seem 
> to be almost done too)
> 
> 2) support of HD-DVD and Bluray menu systems (which probably can be done in 
> the manner similar to dvdnav (although the dvdnav seem to be not usable at 
> the moment, if I am not wrong) - this looks like much larger task and 
> probably will require more efforts..
> 
> So, is anybody planning or already developing support for these features?

This was discussed recently on the xine-devel list:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.xine.devel/17366

Basically, there's no integration of the decryption yet. This Ubuntu
page has more info as well:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD

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Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>