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Ever since there is HD Dreambox, the question arose whether Dreambox will also support Blu-ray. A conference presentation of the Dream-developer Andreas Frisch confirmed the development of Blu-ray support for Dreambox and presents a live demo!
But first things first. Blu-ray is known to be the successor to DVD. With a disc size of up to 25 and 50GB ( soon, perhaps even 128 GB ) is a Blu-ray Disc (BD) of a DVD, which has "only" up to 8 GB capacity, superior. More about the Blu-ray is also on Wikipedia to be read.
It is also known that the playback of purchased Blu-rays on a Linux and a system based thereon, as just Enigma2, because the copy protection is not supported and that will not come in the short time also. But as for burning Blu-ray, it looks a lot better. And also to play burned with the Dreambox Blu-ray is also supported.
At the latest since it gives high resolution Dreamboxen, the need is there to burn the images on a decent medium. A DVD is suitable for this purpose because of the low capacity very bad. With a little luck, a HD movie onto a double-layer DVD, but since it is very narrow. If you want to bring more high-resolution images on a DVD, you can not do anything.
Nothing would be more obvious for high-resolution recordings and Blu-ray use. The burning of Blu-ray and especially the decision to the right standards is not trivial, but the dream-developer Andreas Fresh aka Fraxinas has a very exciting and mostly found already working solution.
The challenges for the Blu-ray support are quite large. Roughly speaking, be necessary to ensure that Blu-ray can be read at all on himself and fired. It was also set as a goal that burned Blu-ray will play on the Dreambox and also on other playback devices too. This must be ensured, for example, that the selected file system is spelled correctly and the file format for the media is correctly selected. This is particularly problematic because there are currently no open source solution for authoring (demuxing, etc.) by or for Blu-ray, and therefore can not be used on existing solutions. Be taken care of this, the media can be played on other playback devices, to be one of the H.264 video codec (which lies mostly in mkv files) are used and on the other hand even with the audio track: For the technically savvy.
For MP2 , as opposed to DVD, Blu-ray no longer supported. This means that MP2 audio tracks to ensure playback on other devices, not on the Blu-ray may be mitgebrannt. It is shown in the live demo, select whether you want to burn the MP2 audio tracks or not. If, for example, before, the Blu-ray playback only on boxing legend, the audio track can be mitgebrannt quiet. The omission of the MP2 audio track is also no great loss: Typically, in high-definition channels of audio to AC3 and not sent to MP2.
Another big problem is that it is Blu-ray is not an open standard. There is no access to a decent documentation is not so. This is difficult when a decent file system must be modeled.
But now the tension ends, namely the live demo. In the fall of 2011, there was a GStreamer Conference in Parg. There, the fuel plug-in by Andreas Frisch was presented, including a live demo!
In the demo shown was a custom plug-DVDBurn shown, and thus a Blu-ray and then fired again played on the Dreambox.
By integrating into the same plug-DVDBurn is already a connection to Cutlist and Metadata Editor and the previously mentioned possibility for the audio track selection is also available. As an alternative to burning the Blu-ray also storing in an iso image file is supported.
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The live demo is available in the conference presentation, which here can be found. In the beginning there are lots of technical information about Blu-ray, the challenges and is structured as a Blu-ray. The lecture is in English and is aimed at developers and is therefore really quite technical.
The live demo will start at minute 31st There it is shown how fired from a recording to Blu-ray and this will eventually play it successfully. For the demo the way a DM8000 was used with an unspecified Blu-ray burner. The entire combustion process, including conversion is relatively fast, which is certainly also the dual-core CPU is due to the Dreambox.
In the demo you can already see that the tool seems to work quite well already. You could hear that Fraxinas has already invested a lot of time here - just for the construction of authoring tools for muxing and demuxing. Particularly exciting is that the Blu-ray can be read on other players, and play.
As with any presentation, there is also a preview here. Here, for example, mentioned that it would be great in the future, certainly, to be able to create HDMV menus. Currently, there is no way to create menus with the Dreambox. Certainly would be interesting also to support 3-D images, which will surely come in the future. Also be on the subtitle support needs major work, what with Blu-ray is also more complicated.
The Dream forum, the tool was still known as experimental . It was also called an exact release date. It is therefore still be a few months, but we see what will come exciting! The burning and playback of Blu-ray is definitely a great addition to the Dreambox and an exciting feature.
The Blu-ray is next HBBTV So another major innovation, in which we can soon rejoice. Let's see what surprises await in the coming weeks and months ahead of us! As soon as there's something new, you will be in Dreambox blog of course be informed.
However with the announcement from Dream-Multimedia that they are developing "GOLIATH".
Blu-ray support may not go ahead on Enigma 2...But with Goliath...who knows...!!!
