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How to enable Blu-Ray support in VLC media player

Playing Blu-Ray discs in windows 10 is a bit og a pain.  In order to get it to work you have to go through a few hoops with VLC.

https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/

Part A: Keys database

Create the folder “C:\ProgramData\aacs\”

Download keys.cfg from the link and place in the folder you created “C:\ProgramData\aacs\”

Note:
finding keysdb.cfg file isnt available at that site for some reason anymore.

Part B: AACS dynamic library

Depending on the version of VLC you have you just need to copy this dll file into the same directory.

VLC 32 bit on Windows: put that file in your VLC directory
VLC 64 bit on Windows: put that file in your VLC directory

create your own search engine using searxng and linux

The excellent network chuck on youtube made a video the other day about making your own search engine with searxng so i thought id put the steps involved on doing in locally in Linux.

Update our linux installation

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

install docker;

sudo apt install docker.io

install docker compose tool:

sudo apt install docker-compose

navigate to dir where you want to keep searxng, in this example well put it in “/usr/local/”

cd /usr/local

download searxng;

git clone https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker.git
cd searxng-docker

create secret key;

sudo sed -i "s|ultrasecretkey|$(openssl rand -hex 32)|g" searxng/settings.yml

start up docker containers

sudo docker-compose up

point your browser to;

localhost:8080

Tweaks and settings;

See here for how to change things;

https://docs.searxng.org/admin/engines/settings.html#use-default-settings


refs;
https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker