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

[Alpherah]

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!

 

[Alpherah]

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

 

[Alpherah]

I tried VLC 2 on my MP and it didn't want to play an BD disk.

Is there anything I need to download additional to VLC 2?

You still need a drive capable of playing BR's, so you used an external one?
Not tried it myself yet as i don't own a drive but plenty of others say its working.

 

[Alpherah]

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?

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).