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VLC 1.0 and Blu-Ray
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Hey, guys -
So I saw the new version of VLC was released, and from what I understand, it supports blu-ray. Has anyone tried this in OSX? Can we use blu-ray now? Thanks!
Rob
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Not unless you have the hardware, which Macs don't have currently. However, you might be able to buy a Blu-Ray drive and connect it to your Mac. Assuming the drivers are available, you could use VLC to watch Blu-Ray.
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Wow.. finally VLC has hit 1.0 after all this time. It's a fine player and one of the most useful beta applications I've ever used. True, Perian has mostly replaced VLC, but it's a fine back-up app for Perian!
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Originally Posted by IronPen
Not unless you have the hardware, which Macs don't have currently. However, you might be able to buy a Blu-Ray drive and connect it to your Mac. Assuming the drivers are available, you could use VLC to watch Blu-Ray.
I'm pretty sure that's what the OP wants to know: with an Blu-ray drive that you've added yourself and VLC, can we now watch Blu-Ray movies on our Macs?
I'd be interested in knowing this as well.
Steve
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I'm pretty sure that's what the OP wants to know: with an Blu-ray drive that you've added yourself and VLC, can we now watch Blu-Ray movies on our Macs?
I'd be interested in knowing this as well.
Exactly. I know I can't stick a BD in my DVD drive. I'd have to install an aftermarket BD drive. I have a huge library of blu-rays and have been getting rid of my DVD's. Would be nice to be able to use the BD's on my Mac Pro, as it's what I use for a TV in my bedroom. Anyone given this a go?
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Has anyone tried this yet?
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Originally Posted by damiensmunki
Has anyone tried this yet?
I don't know for sure.. but on the page, it's pretty specific about the type of Blu-Ray that's supported. It says Blu-Ray PCM which is a type of audio format. I'm assuing this would be for a Blu-Ray audio disk but I didn't even know there were any. At any rate, I'd love to be wrong! Anyone else care to comment????
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Hmmm...anyone with more disposable income than me want to give this a shot?
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Where did you see that it supports Bluray? It looks to me like the support for both the container format (M2TS) and the various mandatory codecs is there (H.264, MPEG-2 and VC-1, plus DD, DTS and LPCM for audio) but you still need something to get past AACS and, if applicable, BD+. On Windows, AnyDVD HD does that, but VLC does not seem to have support for that natively yet. My google-fu may be failing me, but if it does support AACS, then please link me to something that says that it does.
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VLC has been able to play H.264 Bluray formatted video for a long time, as has Quicktime. Just to be clear, we are talking about Bluray *discs* here, and not Bluray *video*, right?
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