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markel253

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May 17, 2008
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Since the latest iMacs don't come with CD/DVD drives, I purchased a Blu Ray/DVD/CD burner. It works just fine for the purpose of archiving my huge collection of photos - but I was curious ... anyone have a recommendation for a good piece of software to view commercial blu ray movies?

Thanks!
 
markel253 said:
Since the latest iMacs don't come with CD/DVD drives, I purchased a Blu Ray/DVD/CD burner. It works just fine for the purpose of archiving my huge collection of photos - but I was curious ... anyone have a recommendation for a good piece of software to view commercial blu ray movies?

Thanks!
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Throw BluRay into MacUpdate but most of them seem to be either dodgy software or variations of what Videolan has to offer. Have you tried the latest version of Videolan? how well does it work?
 
There are no fully functional blu ray players for OSX. They will fake the menus and hopefully select the right playlist. Also, they won't display most forced subtitles, like the Na'vi translations in Avatar for example. The only 2 players that are fully functional are Total Media Theater and PowerDVD. Neither of which are on OSX, and I don't believe either will work in a VM since VMs can't support HDCP.
 
VLC will show forced subtitles. At least it does with The Wolverine which I just pulled off BluRay the other day with MakeMKV.

But you're correct in that menus and some other features aren't there with most of the OSX options.

As stated, Apple does not support BluRay video, so any BD function you'll find are hacks at best.
 
Rip with MakeMKV and encode with Handbrake and you'll have 6-12GB full quality movie.
 
i have just set up a pioneer bdxl on my 27 inch iMac - the BlueRay Player software works well.

The movies look better on the Mac then on the Flat Screen :>)

However I am a bit confused on burning photos ect to a blue ray. I have tried to download many different demo versions of software and all it will allow is movie copies. What software will copy regular files to a Blue Ray for a HARD back up.

I don't want to spend money on something that won't work for what I am looking to do.

Thanks
Tom
 
tomwvr said:
i have just set up a pioneer bdxl on my 27 inch iMac - the BlueRay Player software works well.

The movies look better on the Mac then on the Flat Screen :>)

However I am a bit confused on burning photos ect to a blue ray. I have tried to download many different demo versions of software and all it will allow is movie copies. What software will copy regular files to a Blue Ray for a HARD back up.

I don't want to spend money on something that won't work for what I am looking to do.

Thanks
Tom
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Roxio's Toast 11 will do everything you need.
 
tomwvr said:
i have just set up a pioneer bdxl on my 27 inch iMac - the BlueRay Player software works well.
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I got my son one for Christmas (model BDR-XD05) but included software was for Windows only; was the player you mention in you post included with the BDXL, are you running it under Bootcamp or is it third party?

Thanks,


Mike
 
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