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Played a blu-ray on my Mac Pro yesterday

SmilesLots

SmilesLots

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I have a MacPro 1,1 and thought I would need to upgrade the graphics card to be able to play blu-ray movies. I have a Sony blu-ray burner in the lower optical bay.

Yesterday I installed makeMKV and the latest VLC. Archived a blu-ray, opened VLC and the movie played just fine on my 30 in cinema display. For a long time I had heard that Macs do not do blu-ray. But mine does. Whoopie! Now I can do my own blu-ray movies in FCS and play them with VLC. No need for the ATI 5770 after all.
 
You can play them fine if you rip them but Blu-Ray playback (i.e. straight from the disc, not via ripping) doesn't work that well.
 
SmilesLots said:
For a long time I had heard that Macs do not do blu-ray. But mine does. Whoopie! Now I can do my own blu-ray movies in FCS and play them with VLC. No need for the ATI 5770 after all.
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You can't stream a blu ray movie from the disc in OSX.
 
is all your hardware even hdcp compliant? last i known osx wasnt.

in any case, go rent a bluray movie, pop it into your bluray drive and then hit play from disc on vlc.
 
coochiekuta said:
is all your hardware even hdcp compliant? last i known osx wasnt.

in any case, go rent a bluray movie, pop it into your bluray drive and then hit play from disc on vlc.
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I used makeMKV to make an archive and played that with VLC. Do not need to rent any blu-ray movies. Got about 100 right now. But I'll give that a try. Best I remember, my equipment is NOT hdcp compliant, which is why I thought I needed a new graphics card like the 5770. And it was such a surprise that I was able to play the ripped archive with VLC.
 
Just tried to play a BD directly using VLC and the BD drive and as many of you thought, it does not work. But using an archive file made with makeMKV, it does work. I'm still happy cause it gives me an option other than buying another blu-ray player. BD's do take a lot of disk space. Glad I have a 3 TB drive on order.
 
coochiekuta said:
is all your hardware even hdcp compliant? last i known osx wasnt.
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All Intel Mac hardware is, its the software that can't do it. Jobs is too scared paying the $30/computer license fee will eat into his 30% profit margin.
 
300D said:
All Intel Mac hardware is, its the software that can't do it. Jobs is too scared paying the $30/computer license fee will eat into his 30% profit margin.
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OS X is HDCP compliant. iTunes actually does HDCP output.
 
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