BluRay Playback on Mac Pro

[Sharangad]

Except HDCP doesn't work over VGA, so any commercial Blu-ray won't play.

Blu-ray will playback fine over analogue (component and VGA) connections provided that the disc:

1) Does not implement the Image Constraint Token (ICT). If it does the video will be downrezzed to 960x540 over an analogue connection.

2) Has the digital only token (DOT) in which case an encrypted digital link is required.

None of the blu-ray disks out there have either of these tokens set so full rez video over VGA should be possible.

 

[Tallest Skil]

Blu-ray will playback fine over analogue (component and VGA) connections provided that the disc:

1) Does not implment the Image Constraing Token (ICT). If it does the video will be downrezzed to 950x540 over an analogue connection.

2) Has the digital only token (DOT) in which an encrypted digital link is required.

None of the blu-ray disks out there have either of these tokens set so full rez video over VGA shoudl be possible.

Okay, that makes sense.

And when I say that, I'm talking within the context of Blu-ray licensing, where absolutely nothing makes sense and the "smile and nod" approach usually works out well.

 

[ildondeigiocchi]

Ok guys just an update. DVD'a play fine in Windows Media player but when played in PowerDVD 9 it loads up and then quits again. So this is looking more like a software issue.

 

[Sharangad]

Okay, that makes sense.

And when I say that, I'm talking within the context of Blu-ray licensing, where absolutely nothing makes sense and the "smile and nod" approach usually works out well.

All I can say is I've played back blu-rays at full res over VGA with PowerDVD 7.3. At that time I had a DVI monitor without HDCP and had to use VGA for playback and it worked fine.

 

[gugucom]

Well, your television (46", I assume?) is HDCP compliant - although VGA may not itself be compliant, it can (to the best of my knowledge) identify the monitor at the other end - upon reading it as compliant, it starts working. A theory.

Also, you sure your television is set up correctly? Not trying to offend, but it sounds like overscan/underscan problems.

The point is that I do not want any scaling at all. I want the native resolution to be applied which I do not get in HDMI. As a result the picture is so much crisper and better in VGA that I cannot see a reason to use anything else. It is simply the preferred mode by Samsung as documented in their manual.

 

[Cuda]

Why no BluRay?

iTunes HD Store.

That is the only reason.

Apple Inc. vs. Sony

Fight!

Round 1

iPod vs Walkman

Round 2

Powerbook vs Vaio

Round 3

iPhone vs psp

Round 4

iTunes vs Every Damn thing Sony does.

Everyone always wants to pit Apple vs Microsoft/Dell/HP, Jobs always looks further down the Road then anyone else can see.

Apple vs Sony is 4 Rounds to 0 Apple.

Soon it will be OVER.

WWII.

Apple vs Verizon?

 

[Rankrotten]

I have a Mac Pro 1,1 from 2006 and it plays blu-ray disks fine using Vista and the PowerDVD 7 which came bundled with the LG drive. Of course the drive is not detected on the ODD SATA port until the drivers are updated to AHCI mode.

This setup is used to rip BD disks and serve them to my Mac Mini downstairs running Plex.

Load up Vista and AnyDVD HD and rip the movie to the hard drive. Reboot into OS X and use TSmuxer to select the video and audio streams and mux it into an m2ts file. Fire up Handbrake and compress it at 59% into a MKV file with DTS / DD digital audio and its ready for playback on the mini downstairs.