{"id":1498,"date":"2021-09-24T22:44:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-25T02:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/brd\/wp\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2021-09-24T22:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-25T02:46:36","slug":"the-unbelievable-difficulty-in-watching-bluray-on-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/2021\/09\/24\/the-unbelievable-difficulty-in-watching-bluray-on-a-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"The unbelievable difficulty in watching Bluray on a computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a very long time I didn&#8217;t care much about the quality of my movies. DVD has generally been fine. This all went downhill &#8211;albeit slowly at first&#8211; when I got a really nice TV. The TV was the free one my friends gave me from the loading dock at their apartment. It was broken, but a DC capacitor switch out fixed that. It was HD, and I liked it.<\/p>\n<p>Skip a few chapters and we arrive at my current state.<\/p>\n<p>I have attempted several paths to watch my brand new Ultimate Matrix on Bluray collection. Yes&#8230; the Matrix. Matrix Resurrection is coming soon and I felt that was worth watching everything again, afterall the Matrix series was a very significant part of my youth. As nice of an idea as this was, I sincerely regret my decision to not just buy more bits from Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>I have tried to watch this on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2016 macbook pro<\/li>\n<li>Win10 VM in VMware Fusion<\/li>\n<li>Linux Mint<\/li>\n<li>Win10 bootcamp on the macbook<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please note I have not actually tried this on a true Windows PC, because oddly enough I don&#8217;t really have one. Time changes everything.<\/p>\n<p>In short I have learned the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How AACS DRM is really very interesting (<a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.archlinux.org\/title\/Blu-ray#AACS\">Blu-ray &#8211; ArchWiki (archlinux.org)<\/a>). I can see similar elements to this being used for machine-to-machine authentication in the future.<\/li>\n<li>I learned about the limitations that VLC has when it comes to bluray. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videolan.org\/developers\/libbluray.html\">libbluray &#8211; VideoLAN<\/a>\n<ul>\n<li>And the limitations of VLC with AACS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videolan.org\/developers\/libaacs.html\">libaacs &#8211; VideoLAN<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>I gave up and found out that PowerDVD can play bluray, and it&#8217;s a free download. As long as you&#8217;re OK with yet another vendor getting an email address, so they can harass you about their version of the cloud.<\/li>\n<li>I found out that PowerDVD wont&#8217; work in a VM. There may be some workarounds, but this problem seems pretty old. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=powerdvd+virtual+machine+themida&amp;sxsrf=AOaemvJk9k5ImhF4NkeK-Cncw9P5aRikoA:1632537218621&amp;ei=gopOYeqJJdiw5NoPxfmriAE&amp;oq=powerdvd+virtual+machine+themida&amp;gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAMyBQghEKABMgUIIRCgAToHCAAQRxCwAzoGCAAQFhAeOgUIIRCrAjoHCCEQChCgAUoECEEYAFDbDliTF2CVGGgBcAJ4AIABXogBkAWSAQE4mAEAoAEByAEIwAEB&amp;sclient=gws-wiz&amp;ved=0ahUKEwjq0v2Hi5nzAhVYGFkFHcX8ChEQ4dUDCA4&amp;uact=5&amp;pccc=1\">powerdvd virtual machine themida &#8211; Google Search<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>I found out that PowerDVD didn&#8217;t like my graphics card under Bootcamp.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberlink.com\/support\/faq-content.do?id=2597#:~:text=This%20error%20happens%20when%20PowerDVD%20doesn%27t%20recognize%20a,graphics%20card%20is%20capable%20to%20play%20Blu-ray%20Disc.\">Customer Support &#8211; PowerDVD displays an error message &#8220;Incompatible graphics driver. Please use default driver for playback.&#8221; | CyberLink<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Or maybe my displayport monitors from my dock. <a href=\"https:\/\/us.targus.com\/blogs\/discover-targus\/hdcp-and-targus-docks-tech-talk\">HDCP and Targus Docking Stations | TechTalk<\/a><\/li>\n<li>At this point I don&#8217;t really care.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Essentially I get the frustration tractor owners feel when they can&#8217;t fix their own equipment. I have more appreciation now for the FTC Ruling for Right-to-Repair. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/ftc-votes-to-enforce-right-to-repair\/\">The FTC Votes Unanimously to Enforce Right to Repair | WIRED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I burned $40 on eBay to buy these disks. I burned 4 hours of time trying to get this to work. I have too many hobbies, and can&#8217;t pick this one up. I&#8217;m going to buy the trilogy on Amazon and try to not think about making Jeff Bezos any richer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a very long time I didn&#8217;t care much about the quality of my movies. DVD has generally been fine. This all went downhill &#8211;albeit slowly at first&#8211; when I got a really nice TV. The TV was the free one my friends gave me from the loading dock at their apartment. It was broken, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,343,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitching","category-or-free-horse","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1501,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions\/1501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.briandeyo.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}