Blu-ray support will be a new excellent feature for MorphOS i think too.

Via external Blu-Ray writer USB Maybe?

Watch films, extract audio and video, mix and burn new video projects.

Realize DVD presentation with Hollywood Designer with some videos and burn...

Save big size of data, pictures, archives, etc.

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I think it's not important enough. Most people use streams for many years, so few people buy discs.
Blu ray playxer and disc sales go down from year to year.
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better SATA (internal) because it is faster
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Our CPUs are too weak. Maybe G5 is acceptable but on anything else it is not fun. They are too slow for that.
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that could only be watched useful on G5 or non Amiga platforms because they have better CPUs. Maybe GPU can help to speed it up. I don't know if bigfoots driver can do that. But I would say that the priority for this should be selected very low.
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We don't have any good filesystem for that. SFS cannot store files biggfer than almost 4GB (maybe that's enough for your case but not for bigger video files for example). IceFS can store bigger files but it has so many bugs that you risk to loose your files (drive becomes very slow, and creates a lot of read and write errors). IceFS bugs have not been fixed for many years, so I think it is dead. Maybe best for this is to store on NTFS or extfs. Or ExFAT. They are not Amiga filesystems but can hold bigger files.

Also our filesystems have limits with international files. For example you cannot store files with international names correctly (files with Greek names, Arabic names, Chinese names ...) because we don't have enough Unicode support. And theyy can have only 107 characters in their filename. But media files, archives, versions etc. often have longer filenames in my environment and when I work with them on the Amiga the names are cut to 107 charactrers and when I bring them back to the server and use them with Linux or Windows then the filenames are more broken because Amiga limited it. So in the end I better not even start to use them on the Amiga which is a pity because if I could then this would be a big advantage for me.

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That makes absolutely no sense on PowerPC.

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Then why are we still using a PowerPC hardware and a Power PC Operating System? If we are still using PPC as our hardware and OS then anything that relates to those aspects should be "on the table" for discussion and implementation - that seems to be reasonable or why isn't it?

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The video codec used on bluray are h264/hevc, resolutions are 1080p or 4K. 'Our' only CPU capable handling 1080p would be the G5. Playing 1080p/h264 media I get 60-80 % load on my PCIe G5.

Playing 4K/h264 content is too much for the G5, playing 1080p/hevc also. hevc/h265 seems a more costly codec compared to h264. My G5 can barely do 720p/hevc, nothing more.

You can try that all of course yourself on your G5 on Linux where your would find the Bluray software requirements met you asked for.

So current state on MorphOS is that most G5 (or the P5020 of an X5000) will play most 1080p content just fine but nothing more. For Bluray-disc support you would need to buy an additional USB-BD-drive or swap your DVD-drive out with a SATA BD-drive. Decoding the BD via libbluray needs additional CPU power, reading via USB also I can imagine. Probably you would get away with some frameskips and close to 100 % load on a 2.3GHz G5.

IMHO that's much effort for very little gain. But you can already try it out on Linux as said and see for yourself if it's worth.

We can play 1080p content already on MorphOS. For 4K content we would need a much faster multicore CPU + multicore support in MorphOS or a 4K Radeon + h264/h265/hevc hardware decoding support which all is not supported on MorphOS and won't be for quite some time I guess.

> being unable to format a partition of less than 500GB
> is a real handicap for MorphOS

Formatting an SFS partition of less than 500 GB should be no problem, as long as it's also less than 128 GiB ;-)

> to be able to download file sizes [...] (4.3GB or 8GB [...]) is extremely limiting.

And here I thought the limiting would be in *not* being able to do this ;-)

> why are we still using a PowerPC hardware and a Power PC Operating System?

Because the port of MorphOS to x64/AMD64 has not been finished/released yet ;-)

> the P5020 of an X5000 [...] will play most 1080p content just fine
> but nothing more.

Indeed. And that's also true for the P5040 of the currently sold X5000 systems, even if it has 200 MHz more to offer.