Bluray Movie Converter

Playing commercial Blu-ray movies on Mac OS X

“Bluray is looking more and more like one of the high end audio formats that appeared as the successor to the CD – like it will be beaten by Internet downloadable formats.”

“No, free, instant gratification and convenience (likely in that order) is what made the downloadable formats take off. And the downloadable movie business is rapidly moving to free (Hulu) or rentals (iTunes) so storing purchased movies or TV shows is not an issue.

I think you may be wrong – we may see a fast broad move to streamed free and rental content at sufficient quality (at least 720p) to win almost everyone over.”

When some Mac user emailed Steve Jobs about Blu-ray playback on Mac, he got the reply from Apple’s CEO as above. As the one who ended the era of CDs, Jobs has enough reasons to deny drive-based disc. However, itunes is not always the best choice. We need Blu-ray, but sometimes these discs are really annoying — they are deposited everywhere around in your house and covered in scratches.

“Hey man, I got a mac and is there anyway to integrate these data into my hard disk?”

Yes, there is, conditional.
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Use XBMC for Blu-ray Playback on Mac

The Video about play bluray movies with XBMC

XBMC is a free and open source software media player and entertainment hub for digital media which is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, as well as the original Xbox game console.

While XBMC functions very well as a standard media player application for your computer,it has been designed to be the perfect companion for your HTPC.
Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. If you are willing to play Blu-ray videos on your Mac, it could be a solution for you.

First download XBMC. Official builds can be found here http://xbmc.org/download/, unofficial nightly builds can be found here http://sshcs.com/xbmc/. Use the latter at your own risk, there is no guarantee that the build is stable.
Mount the downloaded disk image after you finish downloading by simply double-clicking its icon, and then drop the XBMC bundle on Application folder.
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Playing Blu-ray with Popcorn Hour A-200 (BDMV/MKV/M2TS playback solutions)

Is it possible to play Blu-ray with Popcorn Hour A-200?
The answer is YES. But don’t take for granted that the NMT A-200 will read Blu-ray Disc from a Blu-ray Disc drive via USB connection. You can connect a BD drive with PHR A-200, but it will play DVD only, not Blu-ray. This is an issue of licensing rather than manufacturing, so do not blame the device. In fact, the Popcorn Hour A-200 is good enough for Blu-ray contents playback- both home-made AVCHD videos and ripped Blu-ray files can be played without hassle.
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Lossless Blu-ray to MKV backup on Mac: keep all audio/subtitles tracks and chapters

The following guide shows how to do lossless Blu-ray to MKV backup on Mac with all audio/subtitles tracks and chapters preserved. If you are looking for such a solution, just feel free to check it.

Required tools:
Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac
An external BD drive

About Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac
Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac is specially developed for Mac users to create MKV files from recently released Blu-ray and DVD movies with lossless quality. By using this Mac tool, users are able to preserve all audio tracks/subs streams/chapter information in a single MKV file, and meanwhile keep videos in 1080p quality at original 16:9 aspect ratio, and audios in original HD quality (TrueHD audio, DTS-HD Master Audio…)without any quality loss.
See 3 ways for lossless Blu-ray backup: BD to BD, BD to ISO and BD to MKV
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[Sharing]How to play Blu-ray movies in VLC on Mac with selected audios/subs?

Up to now, no software manufacturers have developed a professional Blu-ray player for Mac OS like the PowerDVD for Windows, so it has been a troublesome thing for Mac users to play encrypted Blu-ray movies on Mac computers for a long time. In this guide, we intend to detail a simple instruction on how to play Blu-ray movies in VLC media player on Mac with selected audio tracks and subtitles streams. If you are looking for such a solution, just feel free to check detailed guide below.
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[Sharing]Copy/Rip Blu-ray movie to Popcorn Hour A-210 compatible formats

Home theatre PC (HTPC) is getting much popular nowadays but if you are looking for a much affordable system and tiring of data transferring between PC and HTPC then the network media player is a much better choice. Popcorn Hour A-210, which is offered by Syabas, is a leading network media jukebox (NMJ) for the time being. The Popcorn Hour can pump out virtually any video format, including various video, audio container formats and ISO, IFO file and support for more than 100Mbps bitrate (better than Blu-ray quality).

However, Popcorn Hour A-210 does not naturally support Blu-ray Disc playback due to licensing. You have to first hack/rip Blu-ray contents off if you’d like to stream Blu-ray contents. There are three ways to rip Blu-ray movies for Popcorn A-210:

Back up Blu-ray movie to BD ISO file with no loss of movie quality and interactive menu.
Rip Blu-ray main movie to MKV file with desired audio, video and subtitle streams with lossless or compressive quality.
Shrink Blu-ray contents to 1080p/720p MP4, AVI, MKV at a smaller file size.
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