bluray support?

[AP2]

just curious if theres any support for blurays. i have a spare slot load bluray drive that i was going to install in my macbookpro.

 

[Terpfen]

IIRC, OS X doesn't support Blu-Ray playback.

 

[AP2]

oh ok. thanks! looks like i got me a paper weight now.

 

[CEpeep]

IIRC, OS X doesn't support Blu-Ray playback.

This isn't true. It depends on what you want to do with your BD discs. If you burn your own Blu-Rays, you should be able to play them back in VLC or something. Toast supports burning BD-ROM, too.

 

[Terpfen]

This isn't true. It depends on what you want to do with your BD discs. If you burn your own Blu-Rays, you should be able to play them back in VLC or something. Toast supports burning BD-ROM, too.

The OP is apparently talking about playing back content from a Blu-Ray disc, presumably movies. OS X doesn't support that. DVD and downloaded content only.

 

[sed8em]

3rd party programs will let you do everything you need with OS X and BD, just not Apple's own software.

 

[heatlesssun]

3rd party programs will let you do everything you need with OS X and BD, just not Apple's own software.

Perhaps you would like to help the OP out and name some stuff.

 

[Deleted member 143938]

Perhaps you would like to help the OP out and name some stuff.

I'm guessing you could just buy a BD reader, and play stuff using VLC. And burn with Toast. There, Blu Ray on Mac. I don't remember which, but one of the Apple "pro" editing programs also supports exporting to Blu Ray format

 

[elleana]

... bootcamp and windows would work fine too.

 

[Frigg]

There is no software available is capable of playing Blu Ray movies normally on a Mac. This is thanks to the DRM SONY put onto their discs. HDCP requires that ALL of the hardware (not just the software) be compliant and fully licensed for playback. Mac has yet to have this put into it.

 

[webe]

if you have an extra windows OS laying around vm, parallels, or bootcamp would be a simply way to watch BR on your MPB.

 

[dr.stevil]

There is no software available is capable of playing Blu Ray movies normally on a Mac. This is thanks to the DRM SONY put onto their discs. HDCP requires that ALL of the hardware (not just the software) be compliant and fully licensed for playback. Mac has yet to have this put into it.

x2

the video card, the monitor and (obviously) the BD-Rom need to be HDCP enabled to work. Doesnt matter what the OS is... if one of those components are missing, then it wont work.

However, if you're running windows, you can use something like AnyDVD HD to "strip" the requirement for HDCP

 

[Zepher]

x2

the video card, the monitor and (obviously) the BD-Rom need to be HDCP enabled to work. Doesnt matter what the OS is... if one of those components are missing, then it wont work.

However, if you're running windows, you can use something like AnyDVD HD to "strip" the requirement for HDCP

Do you get HDCP support over VGA Cables? Win 7 Pro LG BD-Rom, Nvidia 9600GT, Sony FW-900 24" crt, and PowerDVD plays BD movies just fine on my friends machine that I support.

 

[webe]

You can use a vga cord to an external monitor to get around the hdcp. Not a convenient solution though...

 

[dr.stevil]

^ yeah, you can use VGA but from what I recall is reduces quality or something like that. I used this method before I got my HDCP monitor and it was a PITA sometimes, but I can't recall the issues that it was causing. (possibly that if a second monitor was hooked up with DVI, it wouldn't work).

AnyDVD is good workaround

 

[AP2]

i just wanted to watch blurays on my trips, but not a big deal. i think i may just install the bluray drive in my macbook pro anyways. it seems like it burns cds faster than the one that came with it.

 

[disuse_nc]

Now... if only AnyDVD would release something like this for MacOSX to strip out the encryption to allow playback...

Dreams.

 

[AP2]

well i decided to forget about the bluray drive. so if anyone is interested please pm me. im selling it cheap.