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Episode: 4298
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Title: HPR4298: Playing a Blu-ray disk directly from Linux.
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr4298/hpr4298.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 22:37:21
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 4298 for Wednesday the 22nd of January 2025.
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Today's show is entitled, Playing a Blu-ray Disc Directly from Linux.
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It is hosted by Salus Spider and is about 6 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is, My Own Found Solution.
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Greetings and welcome to Hacker Public Radio.
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My name is Peter Patterson, also known as Salus Spider.
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In my spare time I like to watch sci-fi shows and movies, including those about superheroes.
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I am so looking forward to the new Superman movie by DC, with James Gunn, a showrunner.
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In that film, the actor Nathan Filion plays a Green Lantern named Guy Gardner.
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Recently I remembered I own the Green Lantern Blu-ray animated movie, with Nathan Filion
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as the voice of Hal Jordan.
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That movie is called Emerald Knights.
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These days, when I purchase a Blu-ray, it normally comes with a digital code for movies
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anywhere.
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Therefore, I often never played a physical disc at all.
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This particular disc did not have that option.
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I searched the streaming services for where to watch Green Lantern Emerald Knights.
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As it is only available for rent or purchase, obviously since I own the disc, I am not
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going to do that.
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Therefore I tried once again to try and play the disc directly on my Linux system.
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We do have dedicated Blu-ray players in the house.
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One is a Samsung unit in our living room, but that is where my Dragon and Law Eva lives.
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And another is a PlayStation 3 in our bedroom.
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There is also the fact that I wanted to watch while doing other computer projects in my
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own room.
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My main computer system is a System76 PLEO desktop running PT Linux OS as the operating
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system.
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Incadvian USB is an ASIS external Blu-ray, BW-16D1H-U player.
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Rather than going to detail with all that did not work, I shall instead focus on forming
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you work well in my own system.
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Many of the forums laid you down in very strange paths.
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I all came down to installing all I need from flat back via flathab.org.
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He does all that I installed.
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VLC, make MKV, the Blu-ray Java plugin, the SDK AAC encoding plugin, the make MKV
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plugin for VLC.
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Detailed program names are in the show notes.
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To install these direct from terminal, you would type flat back install the name of
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the program.
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These instructions assume they already have flat back installed on your Linux system.
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If you do not, then a flathab website will give you guidance for your particular distro.
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I did have to install VLC first from PC Linux OS, which had been installed from the repo.
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This enabled all the relevant library files to be accessible across flat back.
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Make MKV is a format converter or transcoder that converts the files on a physical disk
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to MKV files.
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Many use this program to copy the Blu-rays to a storage medium for their own home streaming
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purposes.
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I have yet to go down that road, as if this wanted to play the disk, plus I don't have
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that much storage.
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I originally purchased MKV for $50 in 2020, yes paid.
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It is a proprietary program, but then again so is the Blu-ray disk encryption.
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These days it costs $60 per lifetime license.
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That said, make MKV is beta software that is free to use and a supplier license key that
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is good for a month.
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The only downside is you have to visit their forum page every month to obtain the updated
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key code.
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Once this all this was installed, I opened VLC, clicked an open disk from media, selected
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Blu-ray from this selection, they clicked on play.
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For me it just worked.
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Hope it shall do for you also.
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It is so great to be able to directly play Blu-rays on my Linux system again.
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Remember the green lantern of, and brightest day, and black is night.
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No evil shall escape my sight.
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Let those who worship evil's might beware my power, green lantern's light.
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Thank you so much for listening to my latest topic of interest.
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Please leave me a comment on the HBR show page.
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I look forward to hearing from you.
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Now go forth, take care of yourself, also your fellow neighbors, and record your own HBR show.
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and our Sync.net.
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On the Sadois status, today's show is released under Creative Commons, Attribution 4.0 International
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License.
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