Play Blu-ray disks on SteamOS and DVD's and CD's

[TinMan1325]

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How To Install

sudo apt-get install vlc

Play DVD's

wget http://download.videolan.org/debian/trusty/libdvdcss2_1.2.13-0_amd64.deb

sudo dpkg -i /home/desktop/libdvdcss2_1.2.13-0_amd64.deb

Play Blu-ray disks

 wget http://www.labdv.com/aacs/libaacs/nix_x86/libaacs.so.0

sudo mv /home/desktop/libaacs.so.0 /usr/lib/vlc

mkdir ~/.config/aacs

cd ~/.config/aacs

wget www.labdv.com/aacs/KEYDB.cfg

Open VLC, click - Media, Open Disk..., BluRay, Play
Like this

Adding to BPM
Next, go back into BPM and Add Library Shortcut and choose VLC
Then go to your games library and select VLC and choose Manage Shortcut, Set Launch Options
DVD's

/dev/sr0 --fullscreen

CD's (just add cdda:/)

cdda://dev/sr0 --fullscreen

Blu-ray
Need help trying to get Blu-ray playback in BPM, this command will not work

bluray:///dev/sr0 --fullscreen

Works fine  in the desktop

[shspvr]

Boring there better option call rip it and put on a media server

[TinMan1325]

Ripping Blu-rays is no easy task, is very time consuming, and doesn't have the same quality (depending on how you rip it)

The instructions I gave takes about 10 secs.
Ripping a Blu-ray takes several hours, can be quite complicating, and uses a lot of storage

[XÆЯO_Vince]

Nice guide. Does this also handle BD+ discs too? The vast majority of new blu-ray movies use both BD+ and AACS copyright protection mechanisms. Maybe check out libbdplus and see how that can be made to work. I personally don't have any computers with a blu-ray drive, only standalone players connected to my TV's, including my PS3, PS4, and 2 other blu-ray players.

Shspvr, blu-ray movies can often be 25 to 50 GB in size. Not everyone has massive amounts of storage to rip the movies to their hard drives.

[TinMan1325]

Originally posted by Xaero:

Does this also handle BD+ discs too?

I'm not entirely sure, I don't even know how to tell what Blu-rays have BD+. I know it plays AACS Blu-rays and Game Of Thrones is working smoothly

I didn't know about libbdplus, thanks. I'm using VapourOS which uses libbluray1

[ProfessorKaos64]

Sweet , do you mind if I add this as an official guide under the Steam for Linux group since we don't have a guides section here? It will help the guide not get lost. I've been cataloging things so they don't get buried.

[TinMan1325]

Yeah man, by all means, that's what it's there for. The more places these tutorials are posted the easier it will be for people to find them.

[shspvr]

Originally posted by Xaero:

Nice guide. Does this also handle BD+ discs too? The vast majority of new blu-ray movies use both BD+ and AACS copyright protection mechanisms. Maybe check out libbdplus and see how that can be made to work. I personally don't have any computers with a blu-ray drive, only standalone players connected to my TV's, including my PS3, PS4, and 2 other blu-ray players.

Shspvr, blu-ray movies can often be 25 to 50 GB in size. Not everyone has massive amounts of storage to rip the movies to their hard drives.

You don't rip them that way and you rip/trasoncode them in mp4/ac3 DD5.1 which is what I perf other use mkv and around 2/2.5mb video bitrate be side storeage is cheap you can eazy dump about 800 moive on to 2tb drive there min way get the media form ftp to local to a media server like Media Browser 3/ Plex / Kodi / NAS System

[TinMan1325]

Originally posted by shspvr:

what I perf other use mkv and around 2/2.5mb video bitrate be side storeage is cheap

What you prefer isn't necessarily what the entire world prefers. And I agree, storage is cheap these days
I don't know much about encryption but I fooled around with a Blu-ray ripping program on Windows a while back. It was unintuitive and took such a long time to rip a Blu-ray I would only do it when I went out for a long time. Most of the time it would rip without problems but there were enough times when I can home there was something that went wrong and it didn't rip properly, turning me off from thw whole thing completely. Maybe there is better software on Linux for ripping, I don't know. What I do know is the tutorial I wrote takes seconds to complete

[shspvr]

Originally posted by TinMan1325:

Originally posted by shspvr:

what I perf other use mkv and around 2/2.5mb video bitrate be side storeage is cheap

What you prefer isn't necessarily what the entire world prefers. And I agree, storage is cheap these days
I don't know much about encryption but I fooled around with a Blu-ray ripping program on Windows a while back. It was unintuitive and took such a long time to rip a Blu-ray I would only do it when I went out for a long time. Most of the time it would rip without problems but there were enough times when I can home there was something that went wrong and it didn't rip properly, turning me off from thw whole thing completely. Maybe there is better software on Linux for ripping, I don't know. What I do know is the tutorial I wrote takes seconds to complete

I have run in thoses pain rear disc to there one with where have for update app or sometime it cuases cinavia protection or some other goof ball stuff

[TinMan1325]

Originally posted by shspvr:

I have run in thoses pain rear disc to there one with where have for update app or sometime it cuases cinavia protection or some other goof ball stuff

I have read and reread your post several times and I have no idea what you are talking about. And just because storage is cheap these days, it doesn't mean everyone has it or can afford it.
If you have an alternative solution to a problem, you're more than welcome to share it. Some of us are still very new to Linux(myself included) and enjoy learning more and more about it.

[TinMan1325]

Originally posted by Xaero:

Does this also handle BD+ discs too?

I don't think it does. I just bought a few new movies and they aren't working at all.
It's amazing the lengths some companies go to restrict their products. I own the physical Blu-ray disks and my laptop has a blu-ray player, one would assume it would just work without having to do anything other than putting the disk in and hitting a Play button
:(
Edit:
I need to learn more about this stuff. I'm out of town at work and only have a small handful of movies to try. Movies from 2012 seems to be working but I just tried a couple from 2014 and they don't, I get
Blu-Ray error:
Your system AACS decoding library does not work. Missing keys?
That would suggest it has nothing to do with BD+, correct?

Originally posted by Xaero:

Maybe check out libbdplus

Ran into some dependancy issues with it

[XÆЯO_Vince]

Yeah maybe your KEYDB.cfg file it out of date?

There is this:

http://www.labdv.com/aacs/updater.php

BD+ is used of many newer titles but perhaps it's not as popular as it once was because it's been circumvented some time ago. It was once said that it would take 10 years to crack BD+ but it only took a year or two.

More info here:

http://www.labdv.com/aacs/advanced-users.php

Some of the source code download links from that site are for older versions of software. For instance, it points to libaacs 0.7.1 when 0.8.1 is the latest. Make sure everything is the latest.

I personally don't have a blu-ray drive in any of my PCs, so sorry I cannot be much help. I typically just watch Blu Ray movies from my PS3, PS4, and the couple other Blu-Ray players connected to my TVs.

[TinMan1325]

Thanks for the info
I've been trying different things out with no success. Maybe it's just these two movies in particular. I'll give it another go when I'm home in a few weeks and have access to my collection

[TinMan1325]

Originally posted by Xaero:

Yeah maybe your KEYDB.cfg file it out of date?

Yes, that was definitely part of the problem ;) I got a few working after updating it. I guess that all that can be done, wait until it gets updated

[TinMan1325]

Originally posted by Xaero:

Nice guide. Does this also handle BD+ discs too?

Ok so I looked a little more into BD+. I found a few of my disks that are BD+ and they work...ish. The first 30 seconds plays perfectly, after that, the video gets pretty pixelated. Audio is flawless though :D
So far I've only tried BD+ disks on Windows, I'll give it a go on SteamOS later tonight, hopefully