Blu ray for Mac

[hammell]

Can Macs play Blu ray? I've seen some forums saying it's not supported but is there an official statement? I'd love to watch Blu ray movies on my Mac but more importantly I'd love a writer that can back up my 40Gb VMs!

 

[JStrike]

Mac support most blu-ray drives. However, Apple don't include a blue-ray movie player in OSX since they dont like the complication around the licencing (Even though they are on the Blu-Ray board).
But some 3rd party company has probably released a player for OSX

 

[koffiejunkie]

VLC does, as far as I know.

 

[Ice2Cool]

hammell - how will u use it? In a hackintosh, mac? internal, external?

 

[hammell]

I'm looking at an external blu ray drive to connect to my macbook pro - want to avoid running windows in vm or bootcamp...

 

[PaulMark]

VLC does, as far as I know.

Pretty sure VLC will only play blu-rays without copy protection so pretty much useless. The only way to play copy protected blu-rays on a Mac is to boot into Windows.

 

[koffiejunkie]

Pretty sure VLC will only play blu-rays without copy protection so pretty much useless. The only way to play copy protected blu-rays on a Mac is to boot into Windows.

Like I said: "as far as I know" - which isn't all that far, since I don't have a Blu-Ray drive

Either ways, look what just popped into my feed: How to enable blu ray playback in xbmc

 

[kerryzeng]

I 'm afraid you have to rip the blu ray to high quality video format which was supported by mac. convert the blu ray to mov, mp4, or mkv etc. or bought a windows pc..

 

[ponder]

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