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Implement a Linux based player device supporting Blu-Ray?
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Michael Opdenacker <michael-lists@...>
Greetings,
A customer of ours would like to implement a Linux-based multimedia player with Blu-Ray support, with his own graphical interface. It seems that Blu-Ray was designed to prevent independent or open-source player implementations from supporting it (as explained on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD). Now, how could a small company implement a Linux based player device without having to obtain a player key? Here are the possibilities we are thinking about... * Buy OEM devices running Linux (player key applied for by the manufacturer) and allowing to add custom software (in particular FOSS). I guess the media player software itself will have to be locked down though, to satisfy Blu-Ray requirements. Does anyone know about any such device? * Use standard x86 hardware with Linux, and play content with a proprietary player like PowerDVD, coming with its own player key. The rest of the interface could be custom. Does anyone know about any such software? It seems that PowerDVD for Linux doesn't support Blu-Ray. * Use a graphics card doing decoding and playback in hardware, and also having their own player key somewhere in the hardware. We could then write a Linux driver to use the hardware's capabilities from any userspace application. Any hardware suggestion? Your thoughts and comments are most welcome! Thanks in advance, Michael. -- Michael Opdenacker, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com |
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John
I am planning develope a meida player base on ST7105 , I want to know it well. On 五, 2009-02-27 at 22:51 +0100, Michael Opdenacker wrote: Greetings, A customer of ours would like to implement a Linux-based multimedia player with Blu-Ray support, with his own graphical interface. It seems that Blu-Ray was designed to prevent independent or open-source player implementations from supporting it (as explained on https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD). Now, how could a small company implement a Linux based player device without having to obtain a player key? Here are the possibilities we are thinking about... * Buy OEM devices running Linux (player key applied for by the manufacturer) and allowing to add custom software (in particular FOSS). I guess the media player software itself will have to be locked down though, to satisfy Blu-Ray requirements. Does anyone know about any such device? * Use standard x86 hardware with Linux, and play content with a proprietary player like PowerDVD, coming with its own player key. The rest of the interface could be custom. Does anyone know about any such software? It seems that PowerDVD for Linux doesn't support Blu-Ray. * Use a graphics card doing decoding and playback in hardware, and also having their own player key somewhere in the hardware. We could then write a Linux driver to use the hardware's capabilities from any userspace application. Any hardware suggestion? Your thoughts and comments are most welcome! Thanks in advance, Michael.
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