rather you have to play back the main movie file, and hope that it can play back the main audio track
well, that is exactly what I would like to do.
rather you have to play back the main movie file, and hope that it can play back the main audio track
I think subtitles in m2ts and evo files is a feature in CVS. But again, here we are talkin' about on-fly decryption and NOT about players/codecs!But does it handle the subtitles from inside the m2ts or evo file? or do you have to have a separate subtitle file?
for all the trouble Slysoft would have to go through to properly recreate AnyDVDHD for Linux
wouldln't it just be easier to find a copy of XP/Vista and dual boot.
But the point is why try and do on the fly when you can't play a lot of the films properly, either because they need to have the audio converted or in some cases they need the movie files stitched together to be able to play the full movie
From a market perspective, i don't think it would be a good move. Somewhere on this forum, it was said that they would have to redesign the kernel and i'm sure other stuff. Well now they have two different versions of the same program to maintain. I mean, look at some of the issues they get now with the windows version "My disk won't play when i put it in, what's wrong??" and other such mind numbing questions. Now i'll admit that the average Linux user is a bit more technically refined than the average Windows user, but from a business standpoint, growing your market by creating more kinds of software rather than versions of the same software makes more sense. It may not always be that way, but for right now it is (imho).It's not supposed that Slysoft works for free. The idea is to expand its market SELLING AnyDVD-HD copies also for linux!
True, Windows doesn't grow on trees, but you can buy a copy for less than what you'll pay for AnyDVDHD so to me that alone makes sense. And buying a PS3 just because you cant find Linux compatible software is akin to cutting of your nose to spite your face. I mean, for the money you'll spend on a PS3, you could by Windows, AnyDVDHD, PowerDVDUltra and have money left to spare so i don't mean to insult you, but that just doesn't make sense.You don't find copies of windows on the trees. You have to pay for it if you are honest. And, honestly, I switched to linux many years ago and I'm very satisfied of it. If I won't find a way to play bluray disks on linux, I will go for a ps3.
From a market perspective, i don't think it would be a good move. Somewhere on this forum, it was said that they would have to redesign the kernel and i'm sure other stuff.
I understand that you are a fan of Linux, but buying a copy of Windows doesn't detract from that. Look at it as additional software that's necessary to play your high definition videos. Now if your attitude is similiar to those Linux "everyingthing Windows is the devil and i will not tarnish my hardware by installing that poor excuse for an OS" fanatics then there isn't much that can be done.
I'm personally a little puzzled as to why they even need to go into kernel-land to do this (has this even been answered up until now?) I could possibly see why they had to in Windows, but Linux? The kernel exposes the raw disc to userland, as much as any software can (yes, I know certain keys are still hidden from the software). I don't see why it couldn't be done in userland.
My position is that buying a copy of Windows is not a problem, but running it and maintaining it is. I would have to either dedicate a box to it or do virtualization, and I'm not keen on either, despite actually having a virtual image around with a legit paid-for WinXP copy. It sits and gathers dust, because every time I fire up a hypervisor app, it eats resources like crazy to feed the virtual machine, and hypervisors themselves (especially VMware) tend to be a bit painful for various reasons.
On top of that, for my main box or any other, I would have to buy and manage something in the range of Windows Server '08 or CCS to do the sort of things I do with Linux, not just the cheap-ass (and annoying) Vista Home Basic.
As far as I'm concerned, if SlySoft made a command-line, userland Linux app that had Blu-Ray/BD+ cracking capabilities on parity with AnyDVD HD, I would pay for it in a heartbeat. The cross-distro maintenance effort would be almost nothing, and the closed-source licensing would be a non-issue. I would even be willing to sign an NDA and help them port it (yes, I am technically capable), given some way around the DMCA. :bang:
If we create a linux version then those keys are no longer save.
Probably you're right, i'm not as expert like as you. Only, I see many closed source kernel modules (vmware, nvidia drivers, etc..), ...