Play Blu-rays on the Fly on OS X with Free Mac Blu-ray Player

Steve Jobs famously said in 2008:

They never added Blu-ray support to OS X.

Here's a great tip to those who may have a Blu-ray optical drive in their Hacks. It's a free app, with a paid upgrade called Free Mac Blu-ray Player.

I just tried it and played an encoded Blu-ray directly on OS X no problem. No popups, watermarks, or anything. Didn't have the true Blu-ray intros and menus, but all Audio and Video functions were available.

Download:
http://www.bluraycopys.com/free-mac-blu-ray-player/

What's the benefit to upgrede to Pro? I don't want to rip blu-rays, just play them I use DVDFab on windows to do that.

Cheers!

According to that website, the free version won't play in 1080p.

VLC Player will play blu-rays after adding these files to the library.
http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/

What's a good Blu-Ray player that works in the latest OS X?

VLC Player will play blu-rays after adding these files to the library.
http://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/

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Agreed, but VLC can not deal with all the disc, below is a guide to enable VLC playback Blu-ray media:

http://blog.bluray-player-software.com/play-blu-ray-freely-with-vlc-media-player/

MplayerX is also a VLC alternative too guys it does everything VLC does and more I have downloaded files before where audio sometimes doesn't work in vlc and works in mplayerX however having a combination of all three of these

Blueray player vlc and maplayerX is excellent

thanks

Unfortunately currently there is no 3D Bluray support from any of the players. Also no support for 3D subtitles .sub and .idx - such a shame ..

I ended up buying this one back when it was introductory priced. It was crash-prone at first but MacGo seems to have done a good job stamping out the bugs to where it's pretty stable in the latest version. Not sure I'd buy it at the current $54 though.
http://www.macblurayplayer.com/features.htm?gclid=CMm0tM7SrL4CFYlafgodO0IASA

I can't say I like what I saw when I downloaded and tried the free app.

It wouldn't open Ender's Game... That's a bad start right there... It opened Gattica just fine but playback was sketchy at best, too many dropped frames.

The best solution to anyone who wants to playback Blu-ray video on a Mac is to rip the video to either an MKV or mp4 file and use VLC. I currently have my entire Blu-ray library ripped to MKV's using MakeMKV and I playback using VLC. In the past I have also streamed my video files to a RaspberryPi connected to my projector over my home network, using XBMC as the client on the RaspberryPi. That streaming worked better than the free Blu-ray player app did.

In short there are no good Blu-ray player applications for OS X.

Using MakeMKV, and XBMC (latest versions of both) even allows ripping and playback of 3D movie content on appropriate hardware, OS X does not support 3D officially but it can still stream the 3D files to XBMC which as of the last version can play it back on 3D TV's and projectors...

Works. Great, Thank YOu,

Kassia