blu-ray for mac

[scarlac]

hi

i'd like to buy a BD-ROM for my imac. i'll soon be ready with converting all my dvd's and i'd like to start with my blu-ray collection.

A reseller told me that reading movies on blu-ray is not possible because of the rights that are not incorporated in OSX.
What's true about that.
What BD-ROM do I have to look for.
i'm not interested by the one from lacie, it's to much and i'm not interested in writing blu-ray discs

please some advice.

[Bwizzy]

Blu Ray Burners/Players are only supported by the Mac Pro:
http://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/

[scarlac]

not for an imac 27"
damn
is there any solution with an external blu-ray attached with usb

[jman98]

Blu Ray Burners/Players are only supported by the Mac Pro:
http://www.mcetech.com/blu-ray/

Very interesting. That's a big change. No Macs supported BluRay prior to this. The rumor was that Jobs refused to pay the licensing cost to the BluRay group. Maybe they made him a deal.

[Case]

Very interesting. That's a big change. No Macs supported BluRay prior to this. The rumor was that Jobs refused to pay the licensing cost to the BluRay group. Maybe they made him a deal.

Nothing's changed... really. Toast Titanium has had Blu-ray authoring/burning support for a while now.
There is still no Mac Blu-ray movie playback with the MCE drives: "Play Blu-ray movies on your Mac. Play Blu-ray and HD DVD movies on your Mac Pro with Boot Camp running Windows XP or Vista." Thus not on Mac OS. And I wonder how Boot Camp running Windows deals with the lack of HDCP support in the Mac hardware?

[scarlac]

Ok, playing a movie on blu-ray is a problem on a imac. I'm not watching my BD-movies on my mac, I prefer watching them on my hometheather,
But what about ripping them. So i can add my purchased BD-movies to my XBMC.

[AntnyMD]

I copy Bluray discs to MKV all the time on Mac OS X. Download Make MKV and launch while your BD-ROM drive is attached to your Mac with a disc in it. Make MKV will process the disc and spit out the movie in real time, or better than real time. Once the rip is complete, you can play it back in VLC.

Make MKV also works with DVD discs. Make MKV does not recompress your content, so you get the exact quality thats on the disc.

The software slows down my work computer for other tasks, almost to the point of freezing. It's a beta software, so hopefully the developers will optimize it for our platform.

[jman98]

AntnyMD - I'm not knocking you for telling us that as it might be useful to some, but having to rip and make an MKV in real time isn't anything I'd be interested in if I wanted to watch a BluRay on a Mac. To me, that's kind of like saying "OK, our car can't go in reverse. We admit that. But you can put it in neutral and push it backwards out of any parking spot and then start it once you can go in a forward direction." Again, not knocking you for trying to be helpful, but having to convert EVERYTHING in BluRay doesn't meet my idea of convenient. Why bother? Wouldn't it just be simpler to watch BluRay movies in a BluRay player connected to an HDTV than to do what it takes to watch them on a Mac? Really, are you that married to watching video on a Mac that your time spent converting means nothing to you? If you really are an MD I would think your time is very valuable to you and you've probably got better things to do with than that. I work in IT and my time is VERY valuable to me and I wouldn't do that.

[rumplestiltskin]

Why not just rip them all to your hard drive in a format that will keep most all of the quality (like H264 because that's what BluRay is, after all) and then use a media extender like the WD TV Media Player (if you insist upon 1080) or an AppleTV (for 720) or even a Mac mini and control the whole thing from a remote control (or, in the case of the mini, bluetooth keyboard and mouse for web surfing from the couch).

[scarlac]

Hi AntnyMD

what external BDROM do you have. Because I saw many external BDROMs that are not mac-compatible, or is this just something about those rights, and do all the external BDROMs work on a mac

For example, asus has also a external BDROM, and it's clearly specified it's not mac-compatible.

[AntnyMD]

re: jman98 — I clearly stated the software will rip in real time because most people want to avoid that (clearly, you are one). Make MKV is not finished software, so I felt it was important for viewers of this thread to know that. I apologize if it caused you to crap yourself.

re: scarlac — I use an external BD drive from Buffalo Technologies (which doesnt seem to be featured on their web site anymore, so here's a link for the product at Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-Technology-Mediastation-Blu-ray-Combo/dp/B0016P130E). As I understand it, Blu-ray drives *are* compatible with Macs (they're seen as just regular disc burners), but commercial Blu-ray *discs* are not compatible with Macs, which is why they require converting.

[scarlac]

It has been several day i could visit this site again

Re AntnyMD - Ok that sounds cool, so, whatever external Blu-ray I will buy, I will be able to convert my BDROM's
What tool do you use for rippind the Blu-rays. I'm using MacTheRipper for my DVD's, I suppose that's no use for BDROM's
Once they are ripped, handbrake will be ok for the convertion toMKV

[jamerican]

Hi AntnyMD

what external BDROM do you have. Because I saw many external BDROMs that are not mac-compatible, or is this just something about those rights, and do all the external BDROMs work on a mac

For example, asus has also a external BDROM, and it's clearly specified it's not mac-compatible.

I have an LG BD-Rom DVD-R/RW which is offered by Macsales.com (OWC) and it works fine with the program Mac BluRay Ripper Pro. I have ripped quite a few Bluray discs with this combination and compressed them with Handbrake with DTS Passthrough audio. The finished product plays fine on my Mini HTPC to my Sharp Aquos LCD TV. Hope this helps.

[mrbass]

AntnyMD - I'm not knocking you for telling us that as it might be useful to some, but having to rip and make an MKV in real time isn't anything I'd be interested in if I wanted to watch a BluRay on a Mac. To me, that's kind of like saying "OK, our car can't go in reverse. We admit that. But you can put it in neutral and push it backwards out of any parking spot and then start it once you can go in a forward direction." Again, not knocking you for trying to be helpful, but having to convert EVERYTHING in BluRay doesn't meet my idea of convenient. Why bother? Wouldn't it just be simpler to watch BluRay movies in a BluRay player connected to an HDTV than to do what it takes to watch them on a Mac? Really, are you that married to watching video on a Mac that your time spent converting means nothing to you? If you really are an MD I would think your time is very valuable to you and you've probably got better things to do with than that. I work in IT and my time is VERY valuable to me and I wouldn't do that.

MakeMkv on Mac can play back your bluray. Let it decrypt it like 15 to 30 seconds. Select File and Stream. Copy the URL and paste it into VLC in the stream section and enjoy the movie.

[Techpav]

Ok, playing a movie on blu-ray is a problem on a imac. I'm not watching my BD-movies on my mac, I prefer watching them on my hometheather,
But what about ripping them. So i can add my purchased BD-movies to my XBMC.

Specifically I am trying to avoid my children from destroying the discs, but I have plenty of hard drive space and plan on playing back with XBMC and WD Live. I like the idea of ISO files as I’m completely reproducing the original DVD.Blu ray i like “Full Disk Copy” to remain the original Blu-ray file structure. I was pretty satisfied to find Pavtube mac bluray ripper. The quality of the conversion was very satisfying. The compressed video still gave the high definition quality as the Blu-Ray video.