Sharpee’s Space

Well, I have been boycotting BlueRay discs for some time now, however, I do get them as gifts from time-to-time and need to play them.  Nowadays I will purchase HD movies streamed online from Amazon using their media library and my Roku, but I received a few more physical BD discs that I need to decrypt this Christmas…

At this point though it is more economicalfor me to re-purchase the titles on Amazon then to spend the time getting the discs decrypted, but for those looking for a challenge:

Here are a few links of interest in playing blue-ray discs from Ubuntu 9.10

The Main Ubuntu Blueray guide:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD

BDRom decryption keys by Movie title:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1293367#post1293367

DumpHD ( Open source ripping program )
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=123111

MakeMKV ( Closed Source ripping program )
http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224

Finally, the MPX subsystem is included in the alpha version of Ubuntu 10.04.   I was able to create three separate mouse pointers on my TabletPC as a test following this guide: http://alec.mooo.com/mpx.php

Why? Because I can and because this is hopefully the beginning of multi-touch support throughout the Gnome Desktop environment.

Last night my wife and I shared the laptop for a while using both the bluetooth mouse and the internal trackpoint.