Talk:Blu-ray

Should we update the wiki for playing bluray with mpv instead of mplayer, since new development is focused on mpv? —This unsigned comment is by Robin007bond (talk) 15:36, 23 March 2015‎. Please sign your posts with ~~~~!

mplayer is still developed [1], the situation is similar to xterm/rxvt-unicode. I think it's easy enough for people adapt instructions through [2]. -- Alad (talk) 14:48, 23 March 2015 (UTC) Reply

The current libaacs implementation does not use the online database. The wiki page only has instructions for manually downloading the KEYDB.cfg from the page. Any instructions how to actually build AACS updater could be added here and forwared to upstream, as there is no GNU compatible project files (Makefile) to compile this on any Linux, or at least I can not figure out how to compile! Wild Penguin (talk) 06:10, 5 June 2016 (UTC) Reply

Also, currently libaacs seems to be broken unless a VUK is found - see https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=213353. Wild Penguin (talk) 06:10, 5 June 2016 (UTC) Reply

The page mentions one should use with nvidia mplayer --hwdec=auto but this does not work:

mplayer --hwdec=auto --vd-lavc-threads=4 br:/
Unknown option on the command line: --hwdec=auto
Error parsing option on the command line: --hwdec=auto
MPlayer SVN-r38101 (C) 2000-2018 MPlayer Team
225 audio & 464 video codecs

—This unsigned comment is by Pmatos (talk) 09:17, 8 June 2018 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~!Reply

Leawo Blu-ray Player is not open source, but it is free, works perfectly on Wine, and can handle all flavors of Blu-ray DRM. I find it to be by far the easiest way to watch Blu-rays on Linux. —Alex Henrie (talk) 22:00, 8 July 2020 (UTC) Reply

When trying to get my English copy of NEW GAME! & NEW GAME!! working I had to install aribb24 to get VLC to go past a "libbluray demux: Initializing overlay" message. Just thought it was worth mentioning here.

Moongaia (talk) 16:26, 28 August 2021 (UTC) Reply

The part of MakeMKV that handles the AACS decryption is proprietary and MakeMKV does not provide the VUK to the user, meaning a disc that can be decrypted with MakeMKV cannot automatically be played with FOSS programs that make use of libaacs, like mpv or VLC. However, it is possible to manually retreive the information required to compute the VUK from a disc backup made with MakeMKV. I was able to have libaacs successfully compute the VUK for two discs for which the VUK was not previously available in the public KEYDB.cfg and to play the two discs in question with mpv afterwards. This is a one-time operation per disc and does not require MakeMKV for playback after the initial process.

While I am currently not 100% sure if all of the steps I took were required, I would like to find the minimal list of required steps and contribute that to the article. My main two questions about this are:

1. Would such instructions be allowed on this article? I think this would be the right place, but I want to make sure.
2. If yes, where would be the best place to put these instructions? My guess is as a new section under Blu-ray#Decryption_process.

Matoru (talk) 11:34, 2 September 2025 (UTC) Reply

Intriguing! The discussion here is apparently not so active. However, if your method fits the ArchWiki indeed, we would all benefit from it. Maybe ask on Arch Linux Forums? Iskander (talk) 12:48, 2 October 2025 (UTC) Reply

The section 2.5.3.1 contains the following:

Once flashed the change is persistent and the new firmware should allow media players like VLC to read the disc directly without makemkv's involvement.

What is the basis for this statement? I tried to find evidence supporting it, but to no avail. From what I have understood so far, the custom firmware is made by MakeMKV folks for MakeMKV. In particular, this page [1] clearly lists all the properties the custom firmware has (see '"MK" firmware' section). Nothing in the list indicates that it unlocks disc playback using libaacs only.

[1]: Custom firmware pack with LibreDrive patches Iskander (talk) 21:40, 1 October 2025 (UTC) Reply