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how do i play a blu ray disc on my mac

How can I play blu-ray disc on my mac?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)

Posted on Feb 1, 2012 11:52 AM

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Jul 9, 2013 8:17 PM in response to coxorange

Of course, there is a lot of Mac Blu-ray Player software in the market now, like Aurora Blu-ray Player for Mac, ideer, etc. But Macgo is the first Blu-ray player software available on Mac OS X and the only one developed Mac Blu-ray Player software authorized by BDA, refers to: http://blog.macblurayplayer.com/macgo-has-signed-bd-rom2-flla-with-bda/

Nov 15, 2013 7:00 AM in response to jhank

Hi, newbie here, saw your post, and i wanna share with you a good way to play a blu-ray disc on Mac. You simply need a blu-ray player.The best and easiest way to do this is to check a player company's website and usually they have this great tutorials for users to learn; so here i got you a page for you teaching how to play blu-ray discs on your Mac. I hope this will be helpful to you 🙂


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Feb 8, 2015 9:17 PM in response to jhank

My last post was deleted for advertising. I don't know why the post was seemed as advertising. Maybe the words were too few. So I'll try again.


I just tried the newest Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player to play a BD iso a few days ago. There was only audio and a black screen.

But with Kodi (formerly XBMC), it works fine. I suggest you to give it a try.

Mar 17, 2015 3:47 PM in response to Kurt Lang

I had the Aurora player installed and discovered that there was a LOT of network traffic when it magically and repeatedly launched itself for no apparent reason. After narrowing it down to that app I deleted it and excess network traffic ceased. Aurora is just one of the several names that same software goes by. I don't know what they are doing but it didn't feel right.

Apr 6, 2015 1:38 PM in response to arctician

Supposedly (from what I read in an article a couple of years ago), the Blu-ray playback software verifies the authenticity of a commercial Blu-ray disk to allow it to play. That should take less than 30 seconds though, so continual activity by Aurora doesn't make sense.


The free player I linked to has been changed. It no longer plays Blu-ray at full resolution, but instead dumbs it down to a coarser version. You have to get the paid version if your want to watch 1080 video actually at 1080.


The free VLC Player has instructions how to get it to play back Blu-ray (you download a couple of free pieces and place them in specific places on your drive). It works great. Full resolution 1080 video. Bad part is there's no control over some of the things it does. I tested a few Blu-ray disks I had with it. Tangled played back in English, but all text was in Spanish. Wall-E insisted in playing back the movie with the director commentary overlaid.

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