Once upon a time, home user <[email protected]> said: > The blu-ray drive is an LG UltraHD Blu-Ray drive, also labelled (on > the box) "UHD Blu-ray WRITER". Since it is already UHD, I would > think its firmware already includes what's needed to handle both UHD > and copy-protection. It does not make sense to me that it needs > "altered firmware".
The only officially supported method of playing UHDs on PCs required a combination of manufacturer firmware in the Blu-Ray drive, Windows, and a certain few models of Intel CPUs (which IIRC had to do some kind of check-in with an Intel server). Everything had to link together to get the copy protection to their desired level. The check-in server has since been shut down so there is NO official method of playing UHDs on a PC. The way the community got it working required taking the vendor firmware and modifying it to bypass some restrictions. > If what you say includes UHD drives, then how do I appropriately > "alter" the firmware? You'll need to Google that, I haven't done it. IIRC you have to have certain model drives with certain version vendor firmwares (later versions blocked the ability to load the modified firmwares). You can buy pre-modified drives from people on the Internet, but as no compatible drives are being manufactured anymore, this is getting harder (and they're getting more expensive). IIRC there's also not free or open source software to play UHD movies. -- Chris Adams <[email protected]> -- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
