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Blu-ray Support in Mac OS X 10.5.6?
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Mac Blu-Ray movie playback?! What's that?!
That's where you:
1. Connect a Blu-ray drive to your Mac (it must be able to write something, even if it's just a BD-ROM/DVD-RW)
2. Insert a Blu-ray disc
3. Launch Make MKV and start its streaming server
4. Open the movie on the Blu-ray disc in VLC and watch it on your Mac
I watched Star Trek last night doing this.
I rejoice in any solution that eliminates BD-Live and menus. I want to watch the damned movie.
Great... NOW someone finds it... AFTER starting the download.
I don't think it'll make the post today, as I don't think it will be done in time to burn, pack and get there before they close. So tomorrow will have to do.
Is the one you're downloading, 6.1 or 6.2?
seems the easiest option
anybody have any experience ripping BR movies from a PS3? i bought an old ps3 (new though), i wish to install linux to then create an iso of the BR disc, then i can do what i want
sacto:: all of the current macs are ready for BR playback, as are quite a lot of the previous revisions! just hurry up already!
DoFoT9, Ive been doing this with Ubuntu on the PS3. Ubuntu 9.01 I think, or 9.10. I downloaded Ubuntu right from their site.
It took some additional setup to get it to play nice. For example, I needed to load a couple of packages right away in order to SSH into the PS3 from my iMac. I also needed to change some file sharing permissions on the iMac.
I posted up a brief walk-through somewhere around here Ill try to locate it for you.
Another question for everyone using MakeMKV here... Once you have the MKV file, what then? I know I can watch it in PLEX, but how can I easily get it to my PS3? I tried a few servers last night. I was able to stream M2TS ok (not every file though, a few came back as corrupted) but none of my MKVs worked. I tried MediaLink last night. Tonight Im going to try PS3 media Server and see if I have more luck. What does everyone else use?
oh thanks man that would be schweet
hopefully the file sharing aspect of it isnt hard to setup, im pretty good with all that kinda crap lol.i know we have talked about it, but ill post it again to inform other readers
personally i dont really like MediaLink - it costs money and has some issues with other stuff (e.g. apparently no .m4a playback).
i use PS3 Media Server - its great! (runs using java, so works with pc/mac/linux etc). it is able to transcode any file on the fly into a format suitable for the PS3 to playback. i have set my server to use the "uncompressed" setting, so its apparently loss-less from the original file!
anyway, i highly recommend PS3 Media Server! i just wish it had itunes library integration (MediaLink does).
oh thanks man that would be schweet
Im PMing you some info right now...
i know we have talked about it, but ill post it again to inform other readers
personally i dont really like MediaLink - it costs money and has some issues with other stuff (e.g. apparently no .m4a playback).
i use PS3 Media Server - its great! (runs using java, so works with pc/mac/linux etc). it is able to transcode any file on the fly into a format suitable for the PS3 to playback. i have set my server to use the "uncompressed" setting, so its apparently loss-less from the original file!
anyway, i highly recommend PS3 Media Server! i just wish it had itunes library integration (MediaLink does).
I have to second DoFoT9 on PS3 Media Server. I had a hard time setting it up last night, my PS3 simply wouldnt see my Mac and vice versa. I did some research and found forcing the IP of your Mac as the server within the PS3MS settings did the trick. Im now streaming MKV files to my PS3 and I must say I am VERY pleased with what I am seeing.
sweet!
yup i had the same issue but its all good now! works brilliantly, nice and stable. i only wish it could be installed via preference pane.
I've read that this new series of iMacs will allow themselves to be monitors for laptops, as a window in the iMac's OSX. It's about time. Why waste the big beautiful monitor in front of me when I need to use my lap top.
So I wonder how hard it would be to get HDTV in.
So I wonder how hard it would be to get HDTV in.
I just found this thread... Amazing that we are finally able to play Bluray movies on Mac OSX. Shows you that Apple may soon be moving to officially enable Bluray playback in OSX.
I just found this thread... Amazing that we are finally able to play Bluray movies on Mac OSX. Shows you that Apple may soon be moving to officially enable Bluray playback in OSX.
Why does the fact that there is a third-party, slightly illegal way of making it work "show us that apple may soon be moving to officially enable Bluray playback?"
Does anyone have any problem rebooting or turning off your Mac when your bluray drive is on?
I just purchased an LG Bluray burner, mounted it in an external enclosure and plugged it into my 27" iMac's firewire port daisychained off a Guardian Maximus RAID drive. The only way i can reboot or shut down is to turn off the bluray drive. Anyone have any solutions for this?
I just purchased an LG Bluray burner, mounted it in an external enclosure and plugged it into my 27" iMac's firewire port daisychained off a Guardian Maximus RAID drive. The only way i can reboot or shut down is to turn off the bluray drive. Anyone have any solutions for this?
Because to continue to ignore it is business suicide.
Which really isn't a cause-effect, but whatever gets the job done short of an asteroid on top of Steve Job's head would be a good thing.
IMHO.
Because to continue to ignore it is business suicide.
Which really isn't a cause-effect, but whatever gets the job done short of an asteroid on top of Steve Job's head would be a good thing.
IMHO.
So no one has made any drivers for Bluray support? Can't users install their own drivers? From the point of a non-expert on these things, why couldn't someone write their own driver for a drive like the LG BD writer and make it work? Does Apple have some kind of lock on creating drivers or is it more complicated than just a driver? I've got a Mac Pro and an LG drive... Isn't Apple not supporting it rather opening themselves up for a lawsuit for deliberately not supporting something that impacts the usability of the product? (Wasn't some other company sued because of this a while ago? I know that you can sue for nearly anything (or nothing) these days.)
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It's not that apple won't support blu-ray, they were on the blu-ray committee from the very beginning. It more about licensing and the high fees. Apple needs to get licensing for blu-ray before they can use it. And the problem with that is, that so many companies help make and have patients on blu-ray, that when you try to get a license for it, u have to pay each company individually which would be a hastle because each company wants top dollar. I think MacRumors reported on a story that would make the licensing process a one stop shop, where all the fees are bundled together. But I don't know what happen to that. And I'm sure there are a bunch of hackintosh drivers for blu-ray, out there. It's also kind of funny because final cut pro supports blu-ray as well.
Care to explain how Sony, Dell, Acer, Gateway, Toshiba etc found a way to do it but it is some how a nightmare for apple?
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Not that it would be a nightmare to handle the licensing, but the fact Apple is cheap (they want to use open standards = no licensing costs to keep their margins as high as possible), and more importantly, they won't have total control as they don't own the IP (particularly DRM compliance, as it would mean more work for OS X and I expect the iTunes store as well; they'd have to keep up with the changes).
Exactly, they would have to add in a lot of DRM compliance code into mac os x, which they are not willing to do. I don't think that iTunes is a reason why apple hasn't adopted blu-ray yet.