Blu Ray problems with 10.6.7

Here is an interesting quirk I ran into today. I was copying

a very large file this morning from the internal HDD to a

Firewire HDD and was only getting a transfer rate of

5 megabytes per second. My Blu-Ray drive was connected

via USB and powered but had no disk in it. I powered down

the Blu-Ray, and my Firewire transfer jumped to 50 megabytes

per second.

So, there is some sort of odd I/O bug going on. I may try

the same thing with a USB HDD instead of the Blu-Ray

and see if the same thing happens.

As for those who think this was a conspiracy to kill Blu-Ray

use on Macs, I mean really!! If that was the case, there would

be no Blu-Ray capabilities on Macs period!!!!

woodmeister50 wrote:

As for those who think this was a conspiracy to kill Blu-Ray

use on Macs, I mean really!! If that was the case, there would

be no Blu-Ray capabilities on Macs period!!!!

We just cannot be beaten down by the machine. That's why I support applications like Pavtube. We all know Apple has no intention to support Blu-ray, but really hope Apple can leave us the last piece of room to make Blu-ray playback possible, indirectly.

In response to gumsie, I fully respect intellectual property right. Ripping for personal entertainment only :-)

We all know Apple has no intention to support Blu-ray,

For everyone's information, Sony owns the licensing rights to Blu-Ray and they have not extended a license to Apple.

In response to gumsie, I fully respect intellectual property right. Ripping for personal entertainment only :-)

Again, for everyone's information: ripping is ripping. Laws are in place in this country; however, they are not always fully enforced by some and questioned by others. Other countries have far more restrictive laws in place. Irregardless, according to the ToU here, we are not allowed to discuss it:

Do not submit software or descriptions of processes that break or otherwise ‘work around’ digital rights management software or hardware. This includes conversations about ‘ripping’ DVDs or working around FairPlay software used on the iTunes Store.

Apple DOES support Blu-Rays. You ARE able to

read and write DATA to Blu-Ray media from OSX.

There is just no Blu-Ray movie disk playback

support from OSX.

Also, WINDOWS DOES NOT SUPPORT BLU-RAY

MOVIE PLAYBACK EITHER!!! YOU ARE REQUIRED

TO BUY THIRD PARTY SOFTWARE FOR THIS FUNCTION.

They rather emphatically state this in the Windows FAQ as the

licensing for movie playback would add to much to the

cost of Windows. Why not complain about that as well!!!

To date, no one has written software like Total Media Theater

or PowerDVD (Blu-Ray capable players) for Macs, which is

all that is required to get the "Blu-Ray Experience".

I also agree with babowa in that ripping is ripping and is illegal.

Copying of any movie in any form from a DVD or BD is against

the law in the US and most other countries. It does not matter

that you bought it. One may disagree with that, but that does

not change the law.

Sorry babowa that I said anything not allowed here.

I appreciate the aplogy, but I'm just another user here, so....... in any case, we all have to abide by the terms here; if we do not, Apple may delete the post and you'd get one of the infamous emails that your post was removed because ......

Yes, well understand. Will pay more attention to that.

Thank you babowa for your kind reminder!

I agree... this is not the forum for discussing how to accomplish ripping etc.. the whole point if for apple users who have encountered a problem to have place to discover whether other users are running up against a same problem or not and figure out a viable solution. In this particular case, BluRay reading performance for whatever reason has been affected by the 10.6.7 update, it is resolved by downgrading to 10.6.6 and Apple has acknowledged to one of it's developers that it is logging it as a bug... end of story. All those looking for a solution now.. have found it.

I know I am thankful for these forums for helping me find my way through problems I can't solve on my own. Let's keep it on the up and up!

Speaking of Toast Titanium 10, does any one know if Toast 11 is any better at burning BluRays then 10 is? I would buy 11 in a heartbeat if it is an improvement.

I was having the same slow down and went back to 10.6.6 and that fixed all my problems.

Thanks all for the help.

Pavtube has just released a new version to fix the problem of slow Bluray reading. Check their website for updating. Hope it'll work properly.