It’s proprietary software with a free 30-day trial, and will theoretically cost $50 to continue using after that. While there are technically paid DVD players you can purchase for Linux, there’s no officially licensed way to play back Blu-rays on Linux. How to Play (Some) Blu-rays on Linux with VLCīlu-rays are a bit more complicated. That should ensure VLC is correctly using libdvdcss. If it doesn’t appear to work, try restarting your computer. If that doesn’t work, you may need to specify the device path of your DVD drive here. VLC should automatically find a DVD disc you’ve inserted and play it back. Click the “Media” menu in VLC, select “Open Disc,” and select the “DVD” option. Once installed, insert your DVD and launch VLC. (Alternatively, you can run sudo apt-get install vlc to install it from the command line.) You can then install VLC from the Software Center if it isn’t installed already. You’ll find instructions and third-party repositories that should make the process easy. You do however need to keep updating the beta registration code, so I paid for a license as I want this to be “setup and forget”.For other Linux distributions, perform a web search for “install libdvdcss” and the name of your Linux distribution. MakeMKV is proprietary, but free-as-in-beer as it’s in “perpetual beta”.I’ve created a Favourite for the launcher and added it to the main menu. I’m using the Advanced Launcher addon for Kodi to create a launcher for disc_trigger.sh. To make this a bit more usable, I’m using a script to launch the stream with MakeMKV’s CLI interface, wait until the UPnP share is ready, then switch Kodi to the share ready to select the title from the disc. Fortunately, MakeMKV also allows a disc to be streamed over UPnP, which Kodi supports natively. I’m using MakeMKV 1 which lets you rip Blu-Rays for encoding with Handbrake, but I don’t really have the storage to be ripping Blu-Rays on an ongoing basis. The DRM on Blu-Rays is problematic when you’ve built your own player – you can’t just stick the disc in and hit the play button like you can with DVDs.
I recently upgraded my HTPC’s optical drive to Blu-Ray (primarily for The Force Awakens).
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