Blu Ray and HD-DVD Playback Status

Latest SVN is always recommended.

Playing encrypted discs is now possible. more info: http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/

Software for decrypting Blu-Ray or HD-DVD can be found at:

	Codec	FFmpeg demuxer	MPlayer demuxer	Works	Status
H.264	Native and Binary	Yes	Yes	Yes<ref>Due to the very high bitrate of H.264 streams on HD-DVD and Blu-ray, very high-end hardware might be needed for optimal playback.</ref>	Out of the box
VC-1	Native and binary	Yes	Yes	Yes<ref>Native VC-1 implementation does not yet decode all samples correctly.</ref>	Out of the box
MPEG-2	Native and libmpeg2	Yes	Yes	Yes<ref>Hardware acceleration via XvMC (X-Video Motion Compensation) is available.</ref>	Out of the box
EAC3	Native	Yes	Yes	Yes	Out of the box
TrueHD	Native	Yes	Yes	Yes	Out of the box<ref>Channels are not ordered properly by default (at least on Windows with the DirectX AO). Use -af channels=6:6:0:0:1:1:2:4:3:5:4:2:5:3 to fix the channel ordering.</ref>
DTS Core	Native	Patch needed	Yes	Yes	Out of the box
DTS-HD	None
Blu-ray Subtitles	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
HD DVD Subtitles		Yes	Unknown	Unknown	In progress
old DVD Menus	Native and libmpeg2	Unknown	Yes	Partially<ref>The menu background movie is displayed with dvdnav://.</ref>	Yes with dvdnav://</ref>
Blu Ray Disc	N/A	Yes	Yes	Yes with libbluray	Yes with libbluray and libaacs and aacskeys and keydb.cfg

HD-DVD - a next-generation optical disc format designed for high-density storage of high-definition video and data.
Blu-ray - another next-generation optical disc format designed for high-density storage of high-definition video and data
X-Video Motion Compensation (XvMC) - hardware accelerated video decoding API for X11
Video Acceleration API (VA API) - independent hardware accelerated video decoding API

See also