Hi . Has anyone tried to connect a blu-ray drive to an android tvbox to watch x265 4k movies? I have a few x265 4k home movies and I wouldn't want to buy a 4k bluray just for that. Can you give me some recommendations please. Thanks in advance .

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andrewdotlee

This is the thing that always got me about blu-ray, it’s easier to rip a disc than play one.

Vchat20

TL;DR: 99.99% sure this will not work because reasons. You'll want to rip the Blu-Ray first and play it as a normal video file instead.

Very likely this will not work. Blu-Ray has a lot of extra 'moving parts' and DRM stuff that the TV would need specific functionality to support direct playback and I doubt any will have this for such a niche use case.

There have been some external DVD drives in the past capable of this, but they have internal hardware to essentially 'translate' the DVD content to a normal video file on the fly that the TV or other attached device can more readily play back. DVD's are also a lot easier for this functionality to exist as the DRM mess on that side has long been defeated and the disc layout isn't nearly as complicated.

vadimbz

Let her rip

RomitBD

Rip the disc that has your "family video".

jorsaz

The secret ingredient is crime

ycnz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnwynmT8GVI - here's a guy getting an old-school DVD player working via USB. NFI how well that'll work for your h265 stuff in presumably a different disc format.

But yeah, for legitimate home movies you've recorded, dump 'em on an external HDD, back them up to the cloud, and then plug it in to the back of any of the Android TV boxes.

muti555

There have been some external DVD drives in the past capable of this, but they have internal hardware to essentially 'translate' the DVD content to a normal video file on the fly that the TV or other attached device can more readily play back.