How To: Play Ripped Blu-ray Discs On A Mac. Can Your Mac Handle Blu-ray?

I have found that my best Blu-ray experience on the Mac comes through using XBMC. I have tried VLC, MPLayer, Plex and XBMC.

This video will outline the process of deciphering a Blu-ray's original file structure in order to determine the location of the feature film. It will also demonstrate playback from the local drive.

I am currently using a 17" MacBook Pro 2.8Ghz as such results will vary.

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[tubegiapanta]

Is the video quality same as the Bluray quality you watch with Bluray player? or is it different. Looks like by ripping the Bluray Disk I can watch Bluray on my mac, but I wonder if quality is same as actual Bluray.

[OrganizedMatter]

@tubegiapanta - Assuming that you rip the Blu-Ray without compression you will experience full Blu-Ray quality. The only issue becomes your screen resolution. Your screen can only playback @ its native resolution. Which is often less then 1080P. You must use a screen with a minimum 1920X1080 resolution to experience full Blu-Ray.

[huffy15]

How did you opened the .m2ts file in xbmc. I've just download xbmc and it tell me that one files failed... Did you add any plugin to xbmc?

[OrganizedMatter]

I also have Perian installed. It acts as a decoder. It handles many popular video formats.

[janfans2009]

do you have any video tutorial of anydvd hd?

thanks a lot, great work

[OrganizedMatter]

Sorry. I don't have any tutorials of AnyDVD HD. I'm not using Windows too often anymore.

I may do one in the future if I have more time.

Thanks for the compliment.

[opoopo345]

make a video showing us how to rip a blu ray

[4DiscoStu]

when i insert my BRD is ejects it not too soon after...

[DavidSebua]

@OrganizedMatter hello I have a ripped Blu Ray movie which I want to play but I can not because in the streams folder there are more than a 100 m2ts files and every one of them is a short fragment of the movie (like 2 minutes), can you please explain why is my folder like this and also tell me how can maybe combine them into one file or something and I enjoy playing it like a full movie because I do not understand how will I ever be able to watch this 40gb movie if it is all fragmented like that

[mrpowers4667]

I think one of the first things to be mentioned before you even get to ANY of this, is people need to get an external Blu-ray drive. Or you will get flooded with even more questions than you probably should. Just my two cents.

[BASCKIT13]

how can u rip them on your macthoguh

[ricanpone]

1st question?? What optical drive are you using or USB optical blue ray drive are you using...2. Question??? What's the name of the program you are using to rip the Blu ray to your Mac...I have a MacBook 2.4 Ghz with 4Gb of ram....I am currently using iskysoft to rip regular DVDs....like from redbox and blockbuster ...I wanna be able to do it with Blu ray ...please help...post the software I need to do this and Blu ray optical drive I need

[zahari1998]

its lou from unbox therapy:)

[maccamracecar]

Thank you so much for your video...It helped me out a lot especially because I've only have been using a mac for 2 days now! ^_^

[TheEggiman930]

can u play blue ray 3d on macro?

[swiftkilla1]

i have lost my front row on my mac !!! PLEASE CAN SOMEONE HELP !!! HOW DO I GET IT BACK :) THANKS :) PLEASE HELP

[photocide1]

what do you mean by a ripped bluray disk, because i dont think macs play bluray (mine certainly doesnt :( ), and if you were just able to put in the disk and play it, is it because you have a bluray drive, and are there any solutions for computers with no bluray drives? thanks!

[4DiscoStu]

*How can i rip on mac?