On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:12:47 -0500 Mark Allums <mark@allums.com> wrote: > The master key to HDCP was leaked and it has been reported that it is > legitimate, meaning it is now possible to crack Blu-Ray. > > I'm not interested in that, but I wondered if that meant that we > would eventually be able to play Blu-Ray on Debian machines. Do you > suppose we will see Blu-Ray support in VLC anytime soon? > > HDCP =! BR. Blueray is protected by BD+ and acss, HDCP is what closes the "analog hole" (between the player and the screen). Having the HDCP key means you could make a virtual device that accepts a HDCP encrypted single then passes it out in an unencrypted form to the screen. It means that BR playback on linux is closer, for example windows has a protected content layer that passes the content from the player to the screen, with this key you could build something like that for windows. ------ Regards, Angus Hedger Debian GNU/Linux User PGP Public Key 0xEE6A4B97
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