Re: [Hampshire] Best hardware for HTPC

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Author: Michael Pavling
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To: paul@stimpsonfamily.co.uk, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Best hardware for HTPC
On 7 January 2013 01:34, paul@??? <
paul@???> wrote:

> **
> one might consider buying a copy of MakeMKV for Linux. It costs about £50.
> That would allow the lucky owner to rip the content of the BluRay to their
> hard drive as an unencrypted MKV file. Handbrake would turn any
> unencrypted file into a lovely M4V file that OpenELEC would lap up and
> would be well within the capacity of that hardware to play.
>


FWIW OpenElec/XBMC plays MKV files perfectly happily, so no need to recode
them (and on a Raspberry Pi too, so if that'll handle the file, any
hardware will :-)
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