Another pesky bluray question

[rdsii64]

We all know that if you have an external bluray drive, you can rip the contents of the disc ( THAT YOU OWN)and convert them to mp4 for playback on a mac. This has sparked a question.
That question is this; can you point VLC ( which can read M2TS files) at the bluray drive and play the disc withouth ripping it. I haven't purchased an externnal bluray drive yet or I would try it myself.

 

[peterjcat]

We all know that if you have an external bluray drive, you can rip the contents of the disc ( THAT YOU OWN)and convert them to mp4 for playback on a mac. This has sparked a question.
That question is this; can you point VLC ( which can read M2TS files) at the bluray drive and play the disc withouth ripping it. I haven't purchased an externnal bluray drive yet or I would try it myself.

Not by itself: because VLC doesn't have the means to decrypt a Blu-ray. You can use MakeMKV, which is supposed to have an on-the-fly mode which will serve the decrypted Blu-ray as an HTTP stream that VLC should be able to play. But I haven't tried it.

 

[Cave Man]

You can use MakeMKV, which is supposed to have an on-the-fly mode which will serve the decrypted Blu-ray as an HTTP stream that VLC should be able to play. But I haven't tried it.

I have, and it works! 🙂 But you need a pretty beefy Mac to handle the HD audio extraction.