Written by ubuntosaure the 31 Mar 09 at 17:52.

Until open source software that can read Blu-ray, you need a proprietary solution for reading Blu-ray, which will play in addition to being legal.

Until open source software that can read Blu-ray, you need a proprietary solution for reading Blu-ray, which will play in addition to being legal.

Written by AndrewLuecke the 31 Mar 09 at 23:38.

Blu-ray is dead before it started.
1) Its got severe licencing issues (even Apple who was on the board told Sony to get lost
2) Only pre-assembled computers can apparently support fully encrypted playback path, which means that if we assemble our own computer, its unlikely we will be able to play all blu-ray disks.
3) And many cheaper monitors don't support HDMI/Displaylink anyway. Even many 30" displays
4) Sony keeps changing the encryption methods of the Blu-ray disks, breaking some earlier players
5) the movies on it costs a lot and overall suck. People with blu-ray players don't even buy many movies, they are too expensive
6) Rediculous amount of pointless encryption (which can be cracked easily anyway). And region encoding.
7) I owned blu-ray for a few months. It was a bad experience, so I sold my drive

We shouldn't waste our time on blu-ray. Online distribution is the future (even youtube knows it, and they are apparently allowing paid video's now). Lets work on technologies and implementing codecs that allow users to BUY video's online and stream them to their computer. Its a lot more generic and is more scalable.

Even manufacturers can barely keep up with Sony's BS, and some earlier players have no way of playing newer movies. Blu-ray is the ultimate anti-consumer technology. Expensive, locked down, encrypted (requires new equipment), expensively licenced, and once you get over the "l33t" factor of the format, you realise the movies for it mostly suck (unless of course you believe the new james bond was actually entertaining).

Blu-ray is dead before it started. 1) Its got severe licencing issues (even Apple who was on the board told Sony to get lost 2) Only pre-assembled computers can apparently support fully encrypted playback path, which means that if we assemble our own computer, its unlikely we will be able to play all blu-ray disks. 3) And many cheaper monitors don't support HDMI/Displaylink anyway. Even many 30" displays 4) Sony keeps changing the encryption methods of the Blu-ray disks, breaking some earlier players 5) the movies on it costs a lot and overall suck. People with blu-ray players don't even buy many movies, they are too expensive 6) Rediculous amount of pointless encryption (which can be cracked easily anyway). And region encoding. 7) I owned blu-ray for a few months. It was a bad experience, so I sold my drive We shouldn't waste our time on blu-ray. Online distribution is the future (even youtube knows it, and they are apparently allowing paid video's now). Lets work on technologies and implementing codecs that allow users to BUY video's online and stream them to their computer. Its a lot more generic and is more scalable. Even manufacturers can barely keep up with Sony's BS, and some earlier players have no way of playing newer movies. Blu-ray is the ultimate anti-consumer technology. Expensive, locked down, encrypted (requires new equipment), expensively licenced, and once you get over the "l33t" factor of the format, you realise the movies for it mostly suck (unless of course you believe the new james bond was actually entertaining).

Written by andruk the 1 Apr 09 at 05:54.

Sell a software package that can play Blu Ray discs in the Canonical Store. That's what it's for.

Canonical doesn't have to sponsor the development, they just have to find a different company to create the Blu Ray player for Linux and sell it in their store.

Helping people stay legal in their area, regardless of how stupid or ill-informed the laws may be in those regions, is a good way to get users who want to follow the law.

Sell a software package that can play Blu Ray discs in the Canonical Store. That's what it's for. Canonical doesn't have to sponsor the development, they just have to find a different company to create the Blu Ray player for Linux and sell it in their store. Helping people stay legal in their area, regardless of how stupid or ill-informed the laws may be in those regions, is a good way to get users who want to follow the law.

Written by andrewm the 2 Apr 09 at 13:50.

Fluendo do offer legal paid-for media codecs for Linux, they don't seem to have a Bluray product yet but they do offer DVD decoders. As GStreamer and most other media frameworks are LGPL licensed it should be possible to develop a closed source paid-for Bluray decoding plugin that could be purchased by Ubuntu users or included in paid-for binary distros (not Ubuntu).

Hardly an optimal solution but it's probably the only way of implementing Blu-ray legally on Linux.

Fluendo do offer legal paid-for media codecs for Linux, they don't seem to have a Bluray product yet but they do offer DVD decoders. As GStreamer and most other media frameworks are LGPL licensed it should be possible to develop a closed source paid-for Bluray decoding plugin that could be purchased by Ubuntu users or included in paid-for binary distros (not Ubuntu). Hardly an optimal solution but it's probably the only way of implementing Blu-ray legally on Linux.

Written by sanketmedhi the 7 Apr 09 at 13:15.

Ask Sony to provide a Linux application for your Blu-Ray drive. Or at least ask them to build a Linux driver which can be used with some Linux application.

Ask Sony to provide a Linux application for your Blu-Ray drive. Or at least ask them to build a Linux driver which can be used with some Linux application.

Written by dcornibe the 5 May 09 at 18:01.

This ties into Solution #2. I'm sure as time goes on and compression schemes get better and Internet bandwidth gets better Netflix will offer the ability to serve "Watch Instantly" movies in HD. But until that day when online distribution totally replaces physical media like DVD and Blu-Ray, I agree we also need a software solution (Solution #1).

This ties into Solution #2. I'm sure as time goes on and compression schemes get better and Internet bandwidth gets better Netflix will offer the ability to serve "Watch Instantly" movies in HD. But until that day when online distribution totally replaces physical media like DVD and Blu-Ray, I agree we also need a software solution (Solution #1).

Written by donarntz the 23 Oct 09 at 17:32.

It would be really nice if I could just tell rhythmbox to randomly fill my shuffle, and possibly down convert to a lower bitrate to fit more songs. Also, I think it would be good to not get an error when you over select the amount of songs to place on a shuffle. When I select too many, it crashes my system. Something along the lines of "rhythmbox can not fit all the selected songs, would you like to fill as many as possible". That would be spectacular.

It would be really nice if I could just tell rhythmbox to randomly fill my shuffle, and possibly down convert to a lower bitrate to fit more songs. Also, I think it would be good to not get an error when you over select the amount of songs to place on a shuffle. When I select too many, it crashes my system. Something along the lines of "rhythmbox can not fit all the selected songs, would you like to fill as many as possible". That would be spectacular.

Written by Lucky LIX the 30 Oct 09 at 11:34.

It would be very nice if Rhythmbox would have an option to convert any music files from the collection on the computer to a chosen file format when copying to a portable audio player.

Example: I have a collection on my computer with flac, mp3, ogg, ... but my portable player works best with mp3 190kbps, so I want Rhythmbox to automatically convert the flac and ogg files to mp3 190kbps when copying. (Original files on the computer aren't changed of course)

It would be very nice if Rhythmbox would have an option to convert any music files from the collection on the computer to a chosen file format when copying to a portable audio player. Example: I have a collection on my computer with flac, mp3, ogg, ... but my portable player works best with mp3 190kbps, so I want Rhythmbox to automatically convert the flac and ogg files to mp3 190kbps when copying. (Original files on the computer aren't changed of course)

Written by wiz the 20 Feb 09 at 05:36.

What would cover lots of users already and pave a road for whatever AMD & Intel will bring on scene.

What would cover lots of users already and pave a road for whatever AMD & Intel will bring on scene.

Written by suoko the 7 Sep 09 at 20:38.

Youtube just needs to recognize chromium and fire ffmpeg plugin up instead of flash

Youtube just needs to recognize chromium and fire ffmpeg plugin up instead of flash

Written by olafura the 8 Apr 09 at 15:56.

What I'm proposing is to get Canonical in contact with Audible and work out a solution Ubuntu. They have been in contact with some unspecified developers but that didn't work out. So they are willing to cooperate.

I can donate some money to the cause, because this means a lot to me.

What I'm proposing is to get Canonical in contact with Audible and work out a solution Ubuntu. They have been in contact with some unspecified developers but that didn't work out. So they are willing to cooperate. I can donate some money to the cause, because this means a lot to me.

Written by maix the 9 Apr 09 at 22:06.

Like cheesehead said: It's not Ubuntu's problem. Don't buy audiobooks from them, maybe they'll some day decide to provide ones in free formats, or at least without DRM.

Like cheesehead said: It's not Ubuntu's problem. Don't buy audiobooks from them, maybe they'll some day decide to provide ones in free formats, or at least without DRM.

Written by olafura the 3 Jul 09 at 12:49.

There is a petition for Amazon to remove DRM from Audible.com. Please sign it, they will deliver it on 31 July 2009.

There is a <a href="http://callanaudible.org/">petition for Amazon to remove DRM from Audible.com</a>. Please sign it, they will deliver it on 31 July 2009.

Written by Dinth the 28 Feb 09 at 11:34.

Bring good support for modules to Gstreamer - at least mod, it, s3m and xm formats

Bring good support for modules to Gstreamer - at least mod, it, s3m and xm formats

Written by Dinth the 28 Feb 09 at 11:37.

UADE is most accurate player (but it can be used as plugin) for MOD file format and also dozens of other, more exotic formats which arent supported by any other player/library

UADE is most accurate player (but it can be used as plugin) for MOD file format and also dozens of other, more exotic formats which arent supported by any other player/library

Written by Dinth the 1 Mar 09 at 11:58.

Like above, but for KDE4 users - it would be great to play module file formats natively with Phonon, for example using Amarok.

Like above, but for KDE4 users - it would be great to play module file formats natively with Phonon, for example using Amarok.

Written by DrHalan the 15 Nov 08 at 12:55.

Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #15649 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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Ubuntu Brainstorm was updated in January 2009. Since the idea #16635 was submitted before this update, its rationale and solution are not separated. Please vote accordingly, and if you have the necessary rights, please separate the rationale from the solution. Thanks!

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