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4- Play Blu-ray using VLC Player

VLC is one of the free Mac Blu-ray players. In this part, the way to play Blu-ray movies with VLC on Mac will be described in detail as below steps. It is similar to that of on Windows computer. Why VLC Won’t Play Blu-ray Disc. In order to take full advantage of the VLC Media Player, you have. VLC for Mac OS X VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Conceivably, VLC is the most popular as well as powerful free and open source tool in the market. The 2.0 and later version of VLC Media Player support Blu-ray media playback with some extra operations. You can download the latest version from VLC official website.

posted Mar 16, 2011, 10:36 AM by Marc-Andre Larouche [ updated Mar 21, 2011, 4:17 PM]

Sometime we just want to watch a movie

Another great Freeware; VLC is a video player that support virtually every video file formats I know. VLC can also plays the MKV files directly from your Blu-Ray Backup. VLC will do a great job if you have a mac powerful enough to play the original video. If you want to watch the Blu-Ray disc on your mac, this part will cover how to stream the content of your Blu-Ray disc to VLC using MakeMKV.

What can I do with it ?

VLC is a rich movie player compatible with so much more format than Quicktime and if you just want to watch a movie on your mac, well VLC is perfect to watch the MKV files. You might need a powerful computer to read a movie that wasn't re-compress with Handbrake as we discussed previously.

If you didn't have enough disc space to Rip the Movie or if you see no purpose to Backup your discs, here's what to do:

Decrypting the HDCP using Make MKV

STEP 1- Open MakeMKV and put a Blu-Ray disc in your drive.

STEP 2- In the Toolbar select File>Open disc> and select your Blu-Ray drive.

Now you should see a list of all the movie titles on your Blu-Ray drive. Note which of them is the biggest (it's the usually the main title, where gonna need it later).

In that case it was the third titles.

STEP 3- Start Streaming the Blu-Ray. This action create a local streaming server that we can access by VLC.

You should see a link of the connection in MakeMKV window. Click on the link to open it in a web browser.

You should see a message saying : 'This page is designed to be read by robots, not humans..' at the last line you should see the link /web/titles

STEP 4- Open /web/titles link.

Remember I told you to remember which titles contain the main movie? We're gonna need it next.

STEP 5- Open the main movie title link (in that case the this link is called /web/title2).

Now you shold see the information of the title you try to open, make sure the info match the length of the main movie.

STEP 6- Find the link with the extension '.m2ts', right click on this link and copy the following link.

Opening your movie with VLC

STEP 7- Open VLC

STEP 8- In VLC toolbar select File>Open Network (shortcut cmd+N).

STEP 9- Paste the link in the URL space and hit Open.

Done ! You should now be able to watch your Blu-Ray movie on your mac !

Blu-Ray may be majestic, but it also has more copy protection than any other format around, and playing it on your computer can be difficult to impossible.

VLC Media Player has many capabilities like Playing multiple media extensions or Playing online videos or Converting Video files, Converting Audio files, etc. With such great Operations Performed, Ripping different media Discs is one them.

Although we should appreciate this free VLC Blu-ray player, frankly, only some old Blu-ray discs can be decrypted with the given VLC plug-ins. Many times, people come across problems like wrong AACS dynamic library name, AACS dynamic library loading failure and more, while proceeding VLC Blu-ray ripping steps.

Instead, I would recommend you to use Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper for Mac. By ripping Blu-ray movies to MOV, MP4, or M4V, you can easily play Blu-ray on your Mac or Windows. No matter you are using the default QuickTime, or any other video player.

It is one of the powerful Blu-ray Rippers and converters in the market today. It has the ability to rip convert any commercial and homemade Blu-ray including DVDs to any format that you think of. These formats include AVI, MOV, MKV, M4V, FLV, 3GP, MPG, ASF, VOB, TS, HD MP4, HD AVI, HD MKV, HD WMV, HD MOV, MP3, WAV, AC3, AAC, MKA, OG among others. It Performance is a comparison to a common Blu-ray ripper. By just a single click, you can convert your Blu-ray movies, with fast speed and high quality.

(Note: Click here for OS X 10.5)

Guide: Rip Encrypted Blu-ray for VLC on Mac

Epson xp 432 driver for mac. Step 1. Load Blu-ray movie to the software

Vlc Player Mac Blu Ray Dvd Players

First download Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper for Mac( free trail), install and open it.

Insert the Blu-ray disc to the external Blu-ray drive as the source file. Launch the top Blu-ray Ripper for Mac; click the disc button to load the entire Blu-ray disc for ripping. Blu-ray movie folder and ISO image files are supported as well.

Step 2. Choose output format

Vlc Player Mac Blu Ray Dvd Player

Click the Format bar and follow Common Video; MP4, MOV, AVI, MPEG, M4V… are all the popular output formats for you. This Mac Blu-ray Riper also has 150+ presets for almost all popular multimedia devices. You are allowed to choose one device as the output format as well.

Vlc Player Mac Blu Ray Download

Tip: If you wanna some advanced settings, you can click “Settings” icon to adjust the video, audio parameters bitare, frame rate, sample rate, audio channel, etc. Plus, you can click “Edit” button to do some editing work cropping, trimming, settings effect, adding subtitles.

Step 3. Start Blu-ray ripping

Click on the Convert button on the lower part of the screen to start conversion. Once you got everything all set up, initiate the conversion and let the top Blu-ray Ripper for Mac do what it can.

After the conversion, click Open button to locate the output vidoes. If it’s there, then you can begin to enjoy the video in any