{"id":45835,"date":"2022-08-15T08:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/want-to-watch-blu-rays-in-vlc-on-ubuntu-you-need-makemkv\/"},"modified":"2022-08-15T08:58:06","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T08:58:06","slug":"want-to-watch-blu-rays-in-vlc-on-ubuntu-you-need-makemkv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/want-to-watch-blu-rays-in-vlc-on-ubuntu-you-need-makemkv\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Watch Blu-rays in VLC on Ubuntu? You NEED MakeMKV"},"content":{"rendered":"
I picked up a cheap external USB Blu-ray drive recently with the aim of watching my Doctor Who ‘The Collection’ Blu-rays \u2014 WhoRays, if you will\u2014 in bed, on my laptopone<\/sup> (which runs Ubuntu, obviously).<\/strong><\/p>\n Thing is you can’t just stick in an official Blu-ray disc and watch what’s on it, not in Linux, not on macOS, and not even on Windows. You need additional software, usually paid, that provides the license required to ‘decrypt’ Blu-ray content and throughput it to yo’ eyes.<\/p>\n Truth be told: Blu-ray is awkward, it’s obtuse and, to my mind, it’s a text-book example of how note<\/em> to design a media format.<\/p>\n However, I did manage to get everything working \u2014 smoothly<\/em> \u2014 and I didn’t have to pay for anything. <\/p>\n I figured I’d pass on the knowledge so that anyone else out there who wants to watch Blu-rays in Ubuntu (or on another Ubuntu-based Linux distro) can follow my steps to satisfy their content-craving. <\/p>\nBlu-ray Playback in VLC<\/h2>\n