[gastric]

Story: Wife purchased the Pulp documentary Blu-ray which is Region B. My PS3 is apparently locked to Region A. I have a PC build with a DVD drive in it running XMBC via OpenELEC (but can install Linux and official XBMC if needed), but no Blu-ray drive for any of my computers.

Question: If I purchase a Blu-ray drive such as this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as...6827136268 can install it in my XBMC box can I instantly enjoy playing both DVD and Blu-ray regardless of region?

[jjd-uk]

No as XBMC does not have the means to decrypt retail Blu-Ray discs, however there are external solutions which will allow playback within XBMC however this will be without menus.

[gastric]

So much for the cheap and easy way out. Damn you region locking!

[un1versal]

One day like dvdcss was eventually supported by xbmc, in future kodi (may or not) support libaacs. I wouldn't hold my breath.

[Prof Yaffle]

Nothing stopping you ripping the bluray with makemkv or similar and playing it back in XBMC, though. A USB BR reader is cheap and effective.

[nickr]

You can use makemkv's libaacs to play back blurays. However I prefer to rip to mkv.

[teeedubb]

Xbmc does use libaacs - if the bluray has older aacs encryption you might get away with using the vlc method (google "vlc bluray"), if it has newer aacs or bd+ encryption you need makemkv (which is free while in beta). http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=173474