How do YOU play your Blu-ray?
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I use Makemkv to rip all mine into mkv files which is very easy to use ) All so far run fine in xbmc with dxv enabled in videos settings. But I go one step further and encode it with Handbrake to shrink it down substantially.
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#17
plight Wrote:Bluray discs - Using the latest svn (26237) with bluray detection (http://trac.xbmc.org/changeset/25791) to launch powerdvd if a bluray disc is inserted and played.

I'm very interested in this methode, but i don't know how to do that, any help is welcome.

Thanks,

Shino
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#18
I managed to get my XMBC v11 eden on PC (windows 7 x64) to play bluray disc with a few changes to the external players xml file and and adding some software to VLC.

first grabbing the latests VLC player, I had to create the folder

%APPDATA%\AACS

and place the files KEYDB.cfg (http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/files/KEYDB.cfg), and libaacs.dll (http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/files/...ibaacs.dll) into the new created aacs folder

For some reason VLC was not recognizing the disc so I had to add the libaacs.dll to my VLC folder. (C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC)

additionally, I had to install DVDfab passkey lite on to my machine (http://www.dvdfab.com/passkey-lite.htm). this added about a minute to load a disc.
then after a few hours of trial and error (and a 4 and 6 year old complaining to watch their movie) i manged to get a working external player

in the folder

%APPDATA%\XBMC\userdata

I modified my playercorefactory.xml file to this

****START*****
<playercorefactory>
<players>
<player name="VLC" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\VLC.exe</filename>
<args>"{1}" -f</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
<player name="VLC-Bluray" type="ExternalPlayer" audio="false" video="true">
<filename>C:\Program Files (x86)\VideoLAN\VLC\VLC.exe</filename>
<args>bluray:///"{1}"/ -f</args>
<hidexbmc>true</hidexbmc>
<hideconsole>true</hideconsole>
<warpcursor>none</warpcursor>
</player>
</players>
<rules action="prepend">
<rule dvd="true" player="dvdplayer"/>
<rule filetypes="D:*" player="VLC-Bluray"/>
</rules>
</playercorefactory>

****END****
where as D: is my drive letter.

Avengers bluray started up and worked, via XBMC "play disc" menu from the main screen! All other files worked, and DVDs worked
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