I found that you can play Bluray discs in a way, only using your Macbook and an external Bluray drive. Can someone test it for me in a modern Macbook?
For this test you will need:
1 Bluray reader in a USB enclosure
1 virtual machine with Windows XP or better (Parallels, VirtualBox or Fusion)
1 copy of Slyfox AnyDVD HD (21 days free demo)
1 Macbook with Nvidia integrated graphics or better
40GB to spare in your hard disk
1 good, new action flick in bluray format such as Speedracer
1 copy of Mplayer OSX Extended
1 external DVI screen with at least 1080 lines
Steps:
1. Plug Bluray drive in Macbook and attach it to running virtual machine
2. Install any Windows drivers needed, but not the Bluray video player (or at least prevent it to auto load)
3. Install AnyDVD HD and shut off VM
4. Set up a shared folder in your Mac for your VM to write to (disk must have 40GB free)
5. Start VM and verify that you can mount "network shared" folder, copy files to it and see them in the OSX host
6. Insert Bluray disc (you might need to re-attach bluray drive)
7. AnyDVD HD will handle the mount operation and present it as unprotected content
8. Navigate the bluray disk to D
BDMV\STREAM\ find the largest M2TS and drag it to the shared folder
9. On the OSX the shared folder should have the same filename, and the gigabytes will start piling up
10. Start MPlayer OSX Extended and open that humongous M2TS (it might require you to wait until the whole movie is copied, but it might not)
11. Enjoy movie. If not, take notes on why it is not enjoyable
12. Delete M2TS file and empty trash to re-claim your precious disk space
Please share your experiences.
I could have advised to torrent the M2TS, but who can afford waiting 9000 hours to see a flick?
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