XBMC now plays blu-ray

[Rio Rebel]

I did a search and couldn't find a topic on this. As of XBMC 11, it now plays Blu-ray rips. And it's much faster than using WMC with TotalMedia as a 3rd party player. I'm pumped.

 

[poofyhairguy]

With the new audio engine it can bitstream HD audio as well.

 

[0roo0roo]

just waiting for the kinnect now

be so awesome if you could just say "play X movie" and it did it..

 

[JackBurton]

That is awesome news. Will it play BD ISO's?

 

[Dirigible]

Yes. It lacks menu support though. Sometimes the video that plays is not the one you would've chosen if you'd had menu access. Still, it's progress on the blu ray playback front.

 

[Rio Rebel]

Yes, hoping for menus soon, but love the way it skips the previews and ads at the beginning.

 

[Chapbass]

Just tried the new nightly build of XBMC....while it crashes occasionally, it seems to do bluray and also it has the new AudioEngine which does TrueHD and DTS HD-MA bitstreaming built in (no custom builds). It synced up with my Pioneer elite receiver perfectly. The only issue I had was on Transformers Dark of the Moon which has DTS HD-MA at 7.1 instead of 5.1. I got quite a bit of crackling, definitely wasn't good.

I'm going to research it a bit today, see if anyone else has that problem. Other than that, I'm liking XBMC 11, can't wait for the audioengine to be a part of the main builds.

 

[Rio Rebel]

The existing release of version 11, Eden, does blu-ray iso. I'll wait for a stable release to add in the high def audio, for now. I'm loving it.

 

[Aikouka]

In regard to the Eden release, I keep getting a lot of weird freezing problems with 11 that I never saw with 10.

I had one happen last night when I went to watch a video. I left XBMC sitting in a folder, and I had a feeling it would mess up, because when I hit back, the usual sound effect didn't play. Once it hit the location window, XBMC froze up with no sources shown.

Sometimes, XBMC will freeze when I try to exit. This is annoying, because XBMC likes to stutter if you leave it on for extended periods, which means I need to close and reopen it to fix the problem.

I don't know if it's a weird settings conflict since I never deleted my settings when going between the Eden betas and release candidates.

 

[Binky]

I don't think that playing blu-ray rips is the same as playing a blu-ray. It's definitely a step in the right direction. Can it play a physical disc too, without menus maybe?

 

[poofyhairguy]

I don't think that playing blu-ray rips is the same as playing a blu-ray. It's definitely a step in the right direction. Can it play a physical disc too, without menus maybe?

If something else breaks the DRM for it yeah.

 

[Rio Rebel]

For me, and I believe for most xbmc users, the ability to play blue-ray iso is far more important than playing the physical disk. There are plenty of programs that play a disk, which I don't mind using if I'm loading a disk anyway. But the ability to read my collection from a directory of iso files and play it is a huge step forward.

 

[JackBurton]

For me, and I believe for most xbmc users, the ability to play blue-ray iso is far more important than playing the physical disk. There are plenty of programs that play a disk, which I don't mind using if I'm loading a disk anyway. But the ability to read my collection from a directory of iso files and play it is a huge step forward.

Yep. I couldn't care less about playing a physical disc on XBMC.