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You don't. Or at least not legally.

The only ways I've seen when doing a search involve software that isn't authorized. At that point, there'd be little difference between playing the legally purchased discs and pirating them.

sadly, to play the disc you need to FIRST rip it using software that isn't authorized (online download or not-SOMEONE has to rip it). Anyway, to play the .m2ts files after rip, you would use ye olde standard player like VLC-the codecs are contained in there but audio may have problems if VLC is outdated. PS: there's a difference of 40 GB being used in data for download in linux and hours downloading vs 40 minutes ripping the disc in a windows enviroment and having it on a dual-boot enviroment.

windvd over wine? i'm assuming wine is supposed to let you run windows apps but i don't really know much about linux.

i wouldn't recommend powerdvd. just money grabbing poor quality product.

React OS might be another possibility. I haven't tried running any legitimate products for playing Bluray there. It's rather messed up that you have to have a license in order to play media that you've paid for.

It's one of the reasons why I stopped buying Bluray discs.

Rip the Blu-ray ISO on Windows with AnyDVD HD, play the ISO back on Linux with VLC or something - while disabling the disks menu system.

DRM is shit for this exact reason.

This is most certainly not legal in the US. Which is sort of the point, it's in the non-free section due to the source licensing, but it is still very much illegal by letter of the law in the US and not something that we're supposed to encourage in the forum.

Good question!

I don't. Don't even have Blu-Ray drive. I have always assumed Blu-Ray to be kinda dead standard and have not bother with it. All my purchased films are DVDs.

Is it true that there are no means to play Blu-Ray disks? Some copy-protection? But I thought it was broken long ago. Something akin to libdvdscc for DVD.

Well, I guess the better solution is, "Don't bother with Blu-Ray" then.

Is this more legal? Or is anything decrypt just unsmeakable?

Pretty much the only way this is going to change is if people refuse to buy movies on Bluray until the studios get their heads out of their arses. ACSS is not a mandatory function for Blurays any more than CSS was for DVDs.

The ultimate problem is that any method of decrypting or viewing an encrypted Bluray outside of an authorized player is going to involve somebody cracking or circumventing the DRM. It's mind-blowingly stupid, but that's where we are.

It's probably not quite as much of an issue as it was early on when GOG was having to work really hard to show that being without DRM could work as a business model, but it's still not something that looks good on the forum.

So in spite of Blu-Ray having been made as a consortium, they just forgot about an entire OS? Surely the Macs can play them though (whatever software they have), and they only difference between MacOS and a common Unix distro is some lobotomy via Apple, so what gives? Did Linux have problem playing CDs/DVDs for a while too?

Step one - install Windows

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They didn't forget, they just didn't care. And it wasn't just one OS, it was basically all but 2 of them.

My guess is that the number of people wanting to watch a Bluray that don't do it on a set top box or one of the supported computers is so small that it probably wouldn't have made sense to begin with. Especially not compared with the people that get disenfranchised by keys being revoked.
Pretty much, although it's possible that React OS will eventually work well enough for this, but I haven't tried. Otherwise the other option is to spend an ungodly sum of money and buy a Mac.