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I've got a Blu-ray drive and I'd like to be able to use it to watch movies under Ubuntu.

Kees Cook
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Please see the following official documentation for Bluray disc playback on Ubuntu:

Jorge Castro
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mdeslaur
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makemkv is what i use on linux to rip and then play blu-ray discs. It works very well, and it's free at the moment. Makemkv will convert any dvd or blu-ray disc to an mkv file. DVDs rip into files of around 5GB, while bluray disks will give you huge files of 30-40GB. From there, i use handbrake to compress the video (including several audio/subtitle tracks) for viewing on tv/ipad/laptop.

Installation instructions are here: http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224

Floyd
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It is actually possible if you use the media center application called xbmc which can be found here.

https://launchpad.net/~team-xbmc/+archive/ppa

After you have installed the package their is a plugin for xbmc to read bluray disks. The instructions are here.

http://bloggingabout.com/bluray-playback-xbmc-plugin.html

OMGUBUNTU.CO.UK also has a very simple script to get it setup with VLC also which is at the below link.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/10/easy-blu-ray-movie-playback-in-linux/

Dean Thomson
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Blu ray discs are currently unsupported on Linux. There are ways to play them but they require using methods of circumventing DRM and isnt exactly user friendly in the first place.

Look at this for an explanation on how to play the disc

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD

VBwhatnow
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lxBDPlayer player works fine for unencrypted Bluray discs.

They have a .deb installer on their homepage and on sourceforge.

I even mounted an untouched BluRay ISO and opened it with this player.

The player only has some very basic features like start, stop, pause, skip and chapter selection, but it is easy to install and easy to use.

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Stephan Schielke
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As of Ubuntu 16.04 you can use a 30 day trial of MakeMKV

Install makemkv

cd ~/Downloads
wget http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv-bin-1.9.10.tar.gz
wget http://www.makemkv.com/download/makemkv-oss-1.9.10.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf makemkv-bin-1.9.10.tar.gz
sudo tar -xvzf makemkv-oss-1.9.10.tar.gz
sudo apt install build-essential pkg-config libc6-dev libssl-dev  libexpat1-dev libavcodec-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libqt4-dev -y
cd ~/Downloads/makemkv-oss-1.9.10
sudo ./configure
sudo make
sudo make install
cd ~/Downloads/makemkv-bin-1.9.10
sudo make

Accept terms

sudo make install
cd
makemkv

Start Stream

makemkv

Then

Open Disc > File > Stream

Then

Play Stream

vlc http://localhost:51000/stream/title0.ts

More detailed instructions here:

http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=14633#p49831

Jonathan
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