On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 00:03, Michael C. Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Are most or all PCI express video cards these days designed for > encrypted Blu Ray disc compatibility?
You are asking the wrong question, more or less. What you need to ask is "are all the hardware components, my OS, and all the drivers in my system certified so that I could play Blu Ray?" Which... > I don't want to deal with > anything encrypted and I certainly don't want a video card that > will keep me from viewing certain content. This is one reason > why a lot of folks stay away, far away, from Windows. I'm > looking for a high end PCI express graphics or at least one > that doesn't require proprietary drivers to work under Linux. > The card must have an HDMI port and I prefer that that be all > that it has. I have an onboard vga port, so if I want a second > monitor, I can use that. ...you ain't going to get (legally) because there is no legal Blu-Ray player for Linux so far as I know. (Also, I don't believe anything with an open driver will do the acceleration you want, but I would put less faith in that assertion than the licensing one. :) Personally? I would just buy a Blu-Ray player box if I wanted to watch the things. Any real computing platform is going to make it way, way more pain than just pirating the content would be. For your protection, of course. ;) Daniel -- ♲ Made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
