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Questions tagged [blu-ray]

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How can I watch an encrypted Blu-ray on a Linux desktop?

I have some retail Blu-Ray movies with DRM that I want to watch on my Linux desktop. I want to watch the movie directly from the disc. Tutorials I found online tell me how to rip it to a file, but I don't want to use up that much hard drive space…
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Best practices for writing Blu-Ray discs on Linux

I recently bought a Blu-Ray writer and am wondering how to best write the discs. The scenario is: I have a directory full of files and want to put them on the disc, read them back once to verify, and then put the disc on a shelf (i.e., the main…
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Debian blu-ray and dvd both have 3 disks, what is the purpose of the blu-ray discs?

I tried to download the Debian "testing" (aka "stretch) install media that is blu-ray because I wanted a one disk solution. When I went to the Debian site to download the blu-ray disk... there was 3 disks... arg. The regular Debian dvd install…
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FreeBSD and DD a Blu-Ray Disk

How do I mount a Blu-Ray Movie Disk in FreeBSD 10? I don't need to decrypt the disk, I just need to access the data and copy it to an ISO files so I can transfer the image to another a windows computer to decrypt there with MakeMKV.
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Open HDMV PGS subtitles in GNU/Linux

I wanted to know if there's any software in GNU/Linux which can read BluRay subtitles (HDMV PGS). I'm not talking about making an OCR to convert them to SRT like everyone asks, but just reading them to see the timing of each line, and open the image…
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Burning large files on BD. Capacity confusion

I have a couple of large files I want to burn to an M-Disc 50G BD-R DL. Files are larger than 4G so I have to use UDFv3, if I am not mistaken. (Or split, which I am not especially keen on doing.) A graphical tool is not an option (no X on the…
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Second session written to BD-R disc using -Z flag of growisofs instead of -M. Can first session be made visible?

On Ubuntu Linux, I wrote files to a BD-R using growisofs, per: growisofs -Z /dev/sr0 -R -J -f -graft-points ... Then I wanted to add more files, but I was not paying enough attention, I ran growisofs with the -Z option again instead of switching to…
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Debian Jessie unable to read blu-ray

I've just installed a Pioneer BDC-207DBK blu-ray drive into my Debian Jessie media/file server. The idea being I want to rip my DVD/Blu-ray collection to the hard drives and access them from within my network. The drive itself is reading DVDs…
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Engrave on M-Disc

I want to use 100GB M-Disc for Backup. How can one determine whether the M-Disc Writing was engraved properly and successfully on the non-volatile substance? I plan to use Brasero for writing. What does one have to do, burn with brasero and…
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Patching air gapped RHEL 6.x systems at remote sites

I need to provide the means to patch red hat systems at remote locations that do not have internet connections. My original plan was to reposync the RHEL-workstation repository and throw that along with other required patches on an external ssd and…
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Ripping multi-angle bluray video

I have some Bluray disks I am attempting to rip video from. Normally I'd use ffmpeg and select a playlist to rip and be done with it. With these discs, however, the videos make use of the alternate camera angles feature. My understanding is that…
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Why does gedit need libbluray?

Pardon me if this is something that "everybody knows," but gedit (the gnome gui text editor) has a dependency on libbluray. I've googled and read the release notes for gedit, with no luck, and I can't for the life of me think of a legitimate reason…
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How do I get to know my optical drives read and write capabilities?

I want to learn which media my optical device can read and write to?
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What about hfs+ file system, `k3b` iso's and `growisofs` makes my blu-ray disk a coaster?

I backed up my MacBook using a Blu-ray burner on my CentOS server. When I try to mount the Blu-ray disk, $ mount -t hfsplus /dev/sr0 /mnt/bluray I get the error, mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0 I believe the write was successful. I use a disk…
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How to run mkfs on a BD-RE in linux

~ # mkfs.btrfs /dev/sr0 btrfs-progs v6.3.3 See https://btrfs.readthedocs.io for more information. ERROR: '/dev/sr0' is too small to make a usable filesystem ERROR: minimum size for each btrfs device is 114294784 ~ # df -h /dev/sr0 Filesystem …
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