On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 05:57:19PM +0100, Sven Aluoor wrote: > On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 7:42 PM, fakessh @ <fakessh at fakessh.eu> wrote: > > hello and merry christmas. > > > > my question is simple and can be was already asked. > > for my next gift I intend to buy a Blue Ray burner drive. > > > > I wonder if the linux kernel supports this type of material > > Linux has support for Blu-Ray. More about Blu-Ray as storage medium > here http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW. > If you wish to watch Blu-Ray movies, you need to "hack" the copy > protection (Advanced Access Content System). Apparently, Nero4Linux has Blu-Ray burning support. It's a free 30 day trial but only a $20.00USD purchase cost. http://www.nero.com/enu/store-linux4.html Aside from the link Sven kindly provided, it seems that playing Blu-Ray may be a bit non-trivial, but a quick google indicated that there is a program called makemkv. None of this is from personal experience. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 (After finding Spike outside her house.) Buffy: What are you doing here, Spike? Five words or less! Spike: (counting on fingers) Out... for... a... walk... bitch.