February 19, 2008
16:15
Why so cheerful? Well I have a vested interest in Blu-Ray with both a PS3 and a blu-ray burner in my VAIO AR11S laptop. Now the only thing remaining is for full support for burning to the format, as it stands Linux can read blu-ray data discs without issue as it is in UDF. I haven't been able to get K3b or Brasero to burn a data disc
, so far the only burner that I can tell that supports the 25GB and 50GB discs is Nero 3, which of course isn't ideal (ethical, moral, financial, etc - take your pick 
)The chances of being able to view a BD Video are slimmer than a wafer thin mint as it doesn't use standard libdvdcss but a variant of it. I have seen a howto somewhere ( I think it was a bunty one using Wine and some other dubious means) which I really couldn't be bothered with.
The task of getting this working on openSUSE is somewhat linked into getting my VAIO fully functioning under the Geeko, so I won't be creating yet another task to do. As always though if you genius hackers, enthusiasts and lunatics out there can help then please do!
