April 7, 2014

Bluplayer – Easy Bluray playback with MakeMKV and VLC

Filed under: Technical — Tags: , , , , — James Bunton @ 9:00 am

About a year ago when I first bought my Bluray drive for Linux I had a simple requirement. I wanted to be able to put a disc in, then with some graphical tool select a track and have it start playing. It turns out nothing on Linux can do this.

So I wrote a simple Python/Qt app which uses MakeMKV to decrypt and VLC to play it.

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