News Alder Lake Systems Aren't Able to Play UHD Blu-rays

[Admin]

Intel Alder Lake datasheet confirms that Intel SGX is a deprecated technology. Therefore, please consider carefully if you are thinking of upgrading your HTPC from a 7th, 8th, 9th, or 10th Gen Intel Core CPU.

Alder Lake Systems Aren't Able to Play UHD Blu-rays : Read more

 

[junglist724]

Even when I had a supported CPU, my Nvidia GPU wasn't supported so there still wasn't an easy way to legitimately watch blu rays. So I went shopping for an exploitable BD drive and use MakeMKV to pirate my own legitimately purchased disks.

 

[DavidMV]

Even when I had a supported CPU, my Nvidia GPU wasn't supported so there still wasn't an easy way to legitimately watch blu rays. So I went shopping for an exploitable BD drive and use MakeMKV to pirate my own legitimately purchased disks.

I believe it works only if you plug it into the motherboard monitor connection and use the iGPU. Nothing AMD is supported either.

Yes, MakeMKV does work great! I keep all my movies on a NAS and any device can play them easily.

 

[ezst036]

How easy is it to circumvent this problem on Linux using libbluray?

 

[VforV]

I'm so glad I don't have this problem at all.

 

[ravewulf]

The Blu-ray Disc Association's decision to require both SGX and using Intel's integrated graphics meant that everyone using a discrete GPU, AMD platform, or older Intel CPU were forced to rip their own Blu-rays in order to watch them on their computers. Now I guess everyone will have to unless the BDA decides to loosen their ridiculous restrictions.

 

[pjmelect]

Of course, if PC avenues are closed down, one might turn to a dedicated player or modern games console for UHD Blu-ray consumption.

You could of course simply rip the Blu-ray disk. This sort of thing simply encourages piracy, the opposite of what they are trying to achieve.

 

[alceryes]

Note that we're talking about UHD Blu-ray discs (4K) here.
Standard Blu-ray discs (1080p) aren't affected.

 

[mwestall]

Not to be picky, but it's deprecate, not depreciate.

That's not picky, just the correct word, what ever happened to proof reading?

 

[pixelpusher220]

That's not picky, just the correct word, what ever happened to proof reading?

They can't even consistently enable comments on stories. How hard is that?