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Bluray Player for Mac?

cosmichobo

cosmichobo

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Hi,

I have a Pioneer BluRay in my MacPro5,1 running Sierra.

In the past I've used VLC to play bluray disks, but it's not working on the lastest release I picked up today.

Tried updating to the latest VLC, and with the updated keydb and aacs file... no good.

I have Leawo BluRay Player... which is free, and doesn't use a watermark like a lot of other free BluRay apps... but after pausing, I lost audio, and then it crashed, followed by issues loading the disk. So thought I'd look for another option.

I've just tried 4 more titles... all no good - they wont load the disk.

What BluRay player do you use?

Cheers

cosmic
 
I haven't viewed more than a couple of Bluray discs.

However, I used something called "Free Mac Blu-Ray Player" and it worked ok.
When you run it "in free mode", it places a small "icon" in the upper-left corner (not large).
You have to pay the registration to get rid of it, but I found it to be no bother at all just to leave it there and run in free mode...
 
Bluray? that is like some ancient technology? It has been 10 years since I played any DVD/Bluray. I had a collection of old stuff, but I found there was nothing there that I needed or wanted to see again, so I bid them adieu. Have you checked online sources for the movies, quite a few like IMDB and Plex have old stuff to watch for free, Other than that, rip em onto a high capacity HDD
 
It's still a $1.8b industry... even if it's in decline. At this point, I have no (legal) digital source for the content in question.

I will be ripping them at some point... so sure - that's probably as good an option as any. I was just eager to pop a disc in and press play (on my Mac) cos my kids were hogging the tv.

#Old school.
 
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Make MKV allows you to play Blu-Rays via VLC without ripping.

Open Make MKV Preferences and go to the Integration tab, then tick the box for VLC . After that, you don't need to have Make MKV running to watch Blu-Rays (just VLC), but you will need to keep updating the beta serial for Make MKV every month when the trial expires (or purchase it as shareware).
 
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Spacetime Anomaly said:
Make MKV allows you to play Blu-Rays via VLC without ripping.

Open Make MKV Preferences and go to the Integration tab, then tick the box for VLC . After that, you don't need to have Make MKV running to watch Blu-Rays (just VLC), but you will need to keep updating the beta serial for Make MKV every month when the trial expires (or purchase it as shareware).
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Good point. I usually jut rip mine because it's more convent to have files on disk than have to plug in a player; especially when traveling.
 
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MauiPa said:
Bluray? that is like some ancient technology? It has been 10 years since I played any DVD/Bluray. I had a collection of old stuff, but I found there was nothing there that I needed or wanted to see again, so I bid them adieu. Have you checked online sources for the movies, quite a few like IMDB and Plex have old stuff to watch for free, Other than that, rip em onto a high capacity HDD
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Just about every physical console game is distributed on Blurays (not including Switch games), and has been for probably around a decade now. BDXL's can hold ~120GB and can be safely archived for something like 50 years (probably a lot longer in practice).

Blurays are also still very popular with the home theatre crowd as the have substantially better (and mostly uncompressed) picture and audio quality. Not to mention not everything is available to stream in every country, so often times Blurays are the only option for a lot of content.

They can also be incredibly cheap both new and second hand. I've bought entire movie franchises for a few dollars, the entire boxed set of House for about $10 on eBay, and LoTR Extended edition was maybe $10 brand new at a sale.
 
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I live way out in horse country, where neither buses, nor internet run. We squeak by on a 4G hotspot with 2 bars at best. So, yeah, we still dig blu ray. And local downloads from iTunes. And CDs. And cassettes. And vinyl. And 8-Track, but that's just Billy-Jack who got him a truck with one already in thar, and a CB radio, too! He'll trade pullin' your car out the ditch for a RedBox rental cuz he ain't got no credit cards.
 
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Any recommendations for hardware to use to rip? Blu-ray/DVD reader compatible with MakeMKV/Handbrake/VLC, doesn’t need to do UHD since I know that’s more complicated.
 
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