external bluray player

dcmartonese · January 23, 2017 at 9:29 PM

hi everyone,
I'd like to know if it's possible to use an external bluray player (such as Amazon.com: Pioneer Electronics USA Slim External Blu Ray Drive BDR-XD05S Silver: Computers & Accessories) in order to play a bluray disk with libreelec (with raspberry pi3 b).
thank you for your time.

**lrusak** · January 24, 2017 at 12:15 AM Official Post

It might be, but Blu-ray disks have encryption usually so it may not be possible to play as kodi has no way to decrypt Blu-rays.

trent · January 30, 2017 at 3:31 PM

It's possible (or at least it was last time I checked) with some difficulty. LibreELEC has libaacs, libbluray, libbdplus. You need to supply your own keydb. There is also some way to do it via makemkv plugin.

But it will be a hassle, many discs will not work, some menus will be buggy etc. To be honest I would just buy a cheap Bluray player. OR, rip discs (removing encryption) on your PC first using one of several possible solutions, then just play in LE as a media file.