Questions tagged [blu-ray]
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Do DVD read/writers require drivers? Are they well supported in GNU/Linux?
I know that some readers, such as SD card readers, do not always work well with GNU/Linux. For these devices, I usually just check H-Node to ensure they fully work with all recent GNU/Linux distros.
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How do I read drive status for a USB attached optical drive?
My long-term backups are written to M-Disc platters (100GB BD-R) through a USB-attached BD-RW drive. This works well, but I would like to be able to check if there is a blank disc inserted in the ...
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Ripping multi-angle bluray video
I have some Bluray disks I am attempting to rip video from. Normally I'd use ffmpeg and select a playlist to rip and be done with it. With these discs, however, the videos make use of the alternate ...
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How can I watch an encrypted Blu-ray on a Linux desktop?
I have some retail Blu-Ray movies with DRM that I want to watch on my Linux desktop.
I want to watch the movie directly from the disc. Tutorials I found online tell me how to rip it to a file, but I ...
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Engrave on M-Disc
I want to use 100GB M-Disc for Backup. How can one determine whether the M-Disc Writing was engraved properly and successfully on the non-volatile substance? I plan to use Brasero for writing.
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Blu-ray drive suddenly cannot recognise any Blu-ray discs, but CDs and DVDs work fine
I've been attempting (somewhat fruitlessly) to rip a Blu-ray disc that appears to have a bad sector on it (thanks, BBC). The problem is, after using MakeMKV to try and backup the disc, the drive is ...
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Archiving files on Linux using Pioneer BDR-XD07B Blu-ray burner
I'm using Fedora v32. The only support I could find for Blu-ray burners on Linux is either xfburn or growisofs. I'd like to add files for backup and then burn it. When I tried using xfburn and ...
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Why can't I mount my optical drive in Linux Mint 19.3
I'm having trouble mounting my optical drive in Linux Mint 19.3. I figured this constituted a new question because of how outdated other posts have been on the topic.
My system:
~$ uname -a
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Burning large files on BD. Capacity confusion
I have a couple of large files I want to burn to an M-Disc 50G BD-R DL. Files are larger than 4G so I have to use UDFv3, if I am not mistaken. (Or split, which I am not especially keen on doing.)
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Patching air gapped RHEL 6.x systems at remote sites
I need to provide the means to patch red hat systems at remote locations that do not have internet connections. My original plan was to reposync the RHEL-workstation repository and throw that along ...
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Why does gedit need libbluray?
Pardon me if this is something that "everybody knows," but gedit (the gnome gui text editor) has a dependency on libbluray.
I've googled and read the release notes for gedit, with no luck, and I can'...
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Second session written to BD-R disc using -Z flag of growisofs instead of -M. Can first session be made visible?
On Ubuntu Linux, I wrote files to a BD-R using growisofs, per:
growisofs -Z /dev/sr0 -R -J -f -graft-points ...
Then I wanted to add more files, but I was not paying enough attention, I ran growisofs ...
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FreeBSD and DD a Blu-Ray Disk
How do I mount a Blu-Ray Movie Disk in FreeBSD 10? I don't need to decrypt the disk, I just need to access the data and copy it to an ISO files so I can transfer the image to another a windows ...
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How do I get to know my optical drives read and write capabilities?
I want to learn which media my optical device can read and write to?
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What about hfs+ file system, `k3b` iso's and `growisofs` makes my blu-ray disk a coaster?
I backed up my MacBook using a Blu-ray burner on my CentOS server. When I try to mount the Blu-ray disk,
$ mount -t hfsplus /dev/sr0 /mnt/bluray
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mount: no medium found on /dev/sr0
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