The Blu-ray Burner for RackMac mini can read and write to single-, dual-, triple-, and quad-layer BD, DVD and CD discs; and can read BD-ROM, DVD-ROM, and CD-ROM discs. This unit enables you to archive, back up, and retrieve files, as well as play music and movies (1) through your Mac mini. Find great deals on eBay for mac mini blu ray. Shop with confidence.
Just get a 20$ USB powered external on Ebay, and use Mac Blu Ray Player. The lack of menu's is actually a big plus: I never had a similar uncluttered BR experience without all trailer-crap and navigation limits on a real stand alone player. Buying the software is the biggest hurdle: the software comes in at least 10 names from 10 vague companies all located in Beijing. They use similar vague payment firms (similar like Kagi, but nowhere as good). I only found out that occasional discs are played in a weird colour space and a bit oversaturated.
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Click to expand.That software also requires an Internet connection, and when you play discs, information is sent back and forth to servers in China for some damn reason. Download visual boy advance for mac. I'm not making any claims of wrongdoing, but I don't see any other blu-ray players that have to do that, either physical or software.
MakeMKV can stream BDs directly to VLC, so it's possible to view commercial Blu-Rays using entirely free software and without ripping anything prior to viewing. And without sending any information to servers in China. From your original statement, it is unclear if you want to play directly a blu ray disc or 'blu ray quality' files. Either way, Mac Mini using OSX cannot play back the HD stream as HD audio. With proper software, you can play back up to 5.1 DTS or Dolby. Download hp photosmart 2610 for mac. If you are archiving blu ray level files, MakeMKV is a good option in that you can choose the feature (movie) and strip out streams that you don't use/need. Typical would be a film that is in English and omit the streams for other language dubs and also subtitles.
After a few are done you will be amazed how much space is lost to keeping those extra streams. Other software that is not too bad for OSX include DVDFab which has a reasonable port over to the Mac side. My set up includes using Win 7 in virtual and some other software for particular cases - AnyDVD HD, ClownBD (terrific collection of software that is free and scripted together under a nice GUI) and txMuxer. With the latter, I was able to merge together two files and get LOTR extended editions into one large file for each movie.
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ClownBD is good for finding forced subtitles in most cases and though it might require a couple of rounds, you will get a great file that only contains the forced subtitles that show up in certain films. (Avatar is a good example) and as well get well synched audio. If you want to play back files on your Mac, check out both Plex and XBMC. They are free software for the most part (Plex as some add ons that cost a few dollars while XBMC is totally free, powerful and fun). Click to expand.There you have another of the 10 clones of Mac Blu Ray Player. Just slight change in styling, but all the same program from Beijing.
I have to say I like how the program works, but I use MakeMKV more and more lately. I like how you can clean-strip the BR movie to a MKV container on the HD and add your own SRT subs. I found out most BR's only have a 10-15GB video stream, so they take not too much space. I was expecting 40GB all the time, but films are usually much smaller. This way they just fit in my XBMC collection. Sorry to be so late to this party finally signed up I want to share this - I have had success using MakeMKV Beta and VLC as mentioned above. I installed the DASPI package that comes with MakeMKV, and apparently you need to do that, even though it talks about SCSI.
You open MakeMKV first, click on the picture of the Blu-Ray disc that shows up (with its title), and it begins processing. When it finishes, you click on the icon at the top for Streaming.
That opens a UpNp stream. Then open up VLC, click on Universal Plug 'N' Play in the left sidebar, double click on the 'Make MKV' entry that shows up in the main window. It expands out, highlights 'Raw.mt2s' and begins playing the movie!