Blu-Ray R/W questions

[Essence_of_War]

I'm thinking of purchasing this blu-ray R/W:

http://www.microcenter.com/product/428804/WH16NS40_16x_Internal_Blu-ray_Rewriter

I will not be using it at all for playing blu-ray movies (so I don't really care about software, software updates, etc), just for backing-up my small blu-ray collection, and making archival copies of some personal photos/videos.

This should be plug-and-play out of the box for those purposes, right?

 

[Insert_Nickname]

I will not be using it at all for playing blu-ray movies (so I don't really care about software, software updates, etc), just for backing-up my small blu-ray collection, and making archival copies of some personal photos/videos.

This should be plug-and-play out of the box for those purposes, right?

Depending on how you do it, you might find that part sticky. Otherwise yes, it should be pretty much plug-and-play.

Some burner software is required, if you don't want to use windows built-in capability. Cdburnerxp should support BD-R/RW, and its free.

 

[Essence_of_War]

Sounds good.

Much of the archiving will be done from ubuntu 14.04, not windows, would I run into any obvious problems from that?

 

[mfenn]

Sounds good.

Much of the archiving will be done from ubuntu 14.04, not windows, would I run into any obvious problems from that?

For unprotected media, you are good to go, you can easily just copy the video files from the disc and do whatever you want with them. However, you can't simply make a bit-for-bit copy of a BD-ROM disc onto a BD-RW and expect a player to play it. That's because there is a special region of the commercially-pressed discs which the burner will refuse to copy.

To get around this, you need to decrypt the protected content and then burn that to a disc as unprotected content. Here's a decent article summarizing the process for Linux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BluRay

 

[Charlie98]

For unprotected media, you are good to go, you can easily just copy the video files from the disc and do whatever you want with them. However, you can't simply make a bit-for-bit copy of a BD-ROM disc onto a BD-RW and expect a player to play it. That's because there is a special region of the commercially-pressed discs which the burner will refuse to copy.

To get around this, you need to decrypt the protected content and then burn that to a disc as unprotected content. Here's a decent article summarizing the process for Linux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BluRay

Does AnyDVD HD get around that? (Within Windows, of course.)

 

[Essence_of_War]

For unprotected media, you are good to go, you can easily just copy the video files from the disc and do whatever you want with them. However, you can't simply make a bit-for-bit copy of a BD-ROM disc onto a BD-RW and expect a player to play it. That's because there is a special region of the commercially-pressed discs which the burner will refuse to copy.

To get around this, you need to decrypt the protected content and then burn that to a disc as unprotected content. Here's a decent article summarizing the process for Linux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/BluRay

Much obliged :thumbsup:

I find archwiki to be a very useful reference!

 

[mfenn]

Does AnyDVD HD get around that? (Within Windows, of course.)

Well, it doesn't get around being unable to write the keys. What it does is transparently decrypt the disc for you so the keys aren't needed on the discs you write.