VLC 2.2 "Coming soon", brings Blu Ray support to Mac

Alpherah

Alpherah

Alpherah

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As above, works by managing the blu ray license issue through the internet so you need to be online but its not a major issue these days.

Realise there's software which does it now but its either a) rubbish or b) Expensive, so looking forward to this!
 
2.0 'Release Candidate' is available now, but BR support is in beta.
They expect support to be working as they intend by 2.2 which will be released 'quickly after 2.0'

Assuming they are leaving 2.1 free for minor fixes in-between
 
first read about this on engadget and in the comments people were discussing the fact that although it will allow blu-ray playback, it doesnt get around the encryption meaning it wont work for films etc....which for me atleast, would make it pretty pointless!

or is that what you ment Alpherah with regards to the licensing and needing to be online?
Does that get around it?
 
TheCybermonkey said:
first read about this on engadget and in the comments people were discussing the fact that although it will allow blu-ray playback, it doesnt get around the encryption meaning it wont work for films etc....which for me atleast, would make it pretty pointless!

or is that what you ment Alpherah with regards to the licensing and needing to be online?
Does that get around it?
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Yeah .. kinda.
No idea how it works now, as its just beta, but the ambition is to get it working via internet de-encryption like other companies software has achieved (and costs lots of $$$ to buy).
 
See little point for a doomed format. I have a Blu-Ray player and to be honest in the two years I've owned one I've only bought 2 Blu-Ray DVDs. I'm more than content with my ordinary DVDs getting upscaled - PQ more than adequate on my Plasma.
 
Sorry for the bump, but saves a new thread.

From what I can tell, 2 years have passed, and this can only be achieved doing loads of things with random libraries.

I'm keen to get BluRay playback working on the Mac Mini in the lounge, but I can't work out where I'm going wrong.

Can anyone point me to a guide that actually works? Some seem to link to an old one thats got expired libraries.

It looks like on the Videolan pages that the latest libraries can be found here - http://www.videolan.org/news.html - but I can't work out how to use them and get the things to work :(

Help a newb pls :(
 
so I just did that, and get the same errors:

The Blu Ray disc needs a library for AACS decoding, and your system does not have it.


and....

Your Input can't be opened
VLC is unable to open the MRL library (path to the bluray disc) Check the log for details.
 
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