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How to Use VLC to Play Blu-ray Free on Mac
VLC is very functional to play videos, movies in different formats. This article shows how to use VLC to play Blu-ray free on Mac.
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player that plays most multimedia file as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Many people also use VLC to play blu-ray movies but how about the Blu-ray playback capability of VLC? Now download it and start the Blu-ray to VLC conversion. Download Blu-ray to VLC Converter: (Note: Click here for OS X 10.5) How to Compress Blu-ray movies to VLC playable video. Import Blu-ray movies. Insert the Blu-ray disc to external Blu-ray drive and click the 'Load Disc' button to add the Blu-ray movies you want to play on your VLC. Additonal: If you want to play the Blu-ray movies on your PC or Mac via VLC media player without Blu-ray drive, or watch Blu-ray movie without Blu-ray player, please follow the guide below to rip the Blu-ray to digital (H.264 MP4) files. Conceivably, VLC is the most popular as well as powerful free and open source tool in the market. The 2.0 and later version of VLC Media Player support Blu-ray media playback with some extra operations. You can download the latest version from VLC official website.
Guide
While Mac QuickTime supports videos in MP4, M4V or MOV exclusively, many Mac users like VLC player better, which is powerful to playback videos, movies in AVI (H264/MPEG-4), MKV, FLV or other formats. In this case, you may also consider playing Blu-ray movies with VLC. Although it does not support Blu-ray discs directly, there are indeed ways to get VLC to play Blu-ray on Mac. This article will show you how to use VLC (2.0) player to play Blu-ray free on Mac.
Use VLC (2.0) to play Blu-ray on Mac
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Here are the tools/files you will need.
1. VLC 2.0
2. Keys database for Mac
3. AACS dynamic library
Step 1: Install.
Download and install VLC 2.0 on your Mac. Then download keys database and AACS dynamic library files for Mac.
Step 2: Place plug-in files to according folders.
Put the KEYDB.cfg file into ~/Library/Preferences/aacs folder. Put the libaacs.dylib into the ~/lib directory folder. ~ refers to home directory. If the folder does not exist, create it manually.
Step 3: Play Blu-ray.
Launch VLC, insert your Blu-ray disc to the external BD drive and play. You can also get VLC to play Blu-ray ISO, files or folders on your Mac with this method.
Although we should appreciate this free VLC Blu-ray player, frankly, only some old Blu-ray discs can be decrypted with the given VLC plug-ins. Many times, people come across problems like wrong AACS dynamic library name, AACS dynamic library loading failure and more, while proceeding above steps. Instead, I would recommend you to use imElfin Blu-ray Ripper. By ripping Blu-ray movies to MOV, MP4, or M4V, you can easily play Blu-ray on your Mac or Windows. No matter you are using the default QuickTime, or any other video player.
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Play Blu-ray discs on Mac with imElfin Blu-ray Ripper
Download and install imElfin Blu-ray Ripper below.
Step 1: Launch imElfin Blu-ray Ripper. Insert your Blu-ray disc (optional).
Step 2: Add a Blu-ray disc, ISO file or folder.
Click add button to load the Blu-ray source from your Mac/drive.
Step 3: Set output and rip.
Click the device icon at the top of the left panel and choose the output format as MP4. Customize the quality (as 'High', for instance) and other settings as you like. Then click the convert button in the lower-right corner and rip.
The Blu-ray ripping process may take several hours, which depends on the source length and output quality. When the ripping & converting is complete, click the folder icon (next to the progress bar) to access the output folder. Then you are able to play Blu-ray on your Mac at will.
Last updated: 10 Apr, 2020 1. What’s VLC Media Player?¶‘VLC Media Player’ is a free media player developed by VideoLAN. It can play a variety of video files, as well as unencrypted DVDs and BDs. Detailed functions can be found at VLC’s official site. But ‘VLC Media Player’ can’t play Blu-ray DVD with AACS protection. If you try to use VLC to play encrypted Blu-ray DVD, you will see the following error: If you want VLC to play Blu-ray discs with AACS encryption, you need to install the AACS crack plugin. Now, OpenCloner Inc. has developed the AACS crack plugin ‘OpenCloner Decode Widget’. By installing this plugin, VLC can realize the function of playing AACS encrypted BD discs. If you also want to play 4K UHD discs, then you need a UHD friendly drive first. Please learn what is UHD friendly drive here. 2. How to get ‘OpenCloner Decode Widget’?OpenCloner Decode Widget is a decryption AACS plug-in for third-party software that can remove AACS, BD+ protection. This plugin is included in the OpenCloner Ripper software , DVD-Cloner , OpenCloner UltraBox and Blue-Cloner install package. You can install any of these 4 software in the software download page . OpenCloner Decode Widget is not free software. You need to register any of the following Opencloner products in order to get a license, otherwise you will only be able to try it for 10 minutes. 3. How to install/uninstall ‘OpenCloner Decode Widget’?
Note: If you are using DVD-Cloner or Blue-Cloner one click installer, you will not see the following window. The plugin will be automatically installed by default. If you do not see the window above, the installer does not detect that VLC is already installed on the system, you need to re-download the latest version of VLC installation, and then reinstall OpenCloner Ripper. You can open the PlayerPlugin.exe program to view the installation and registration of the OpenCloner Decode Widget. This file is located in the OpenCloner Ripper installation directory, which is usually: ‘C:Program FilesOpenClonerOpenCloner Ripper’ If you want to uninstall this plugin, just uninstall OpenCloner ripper. 4. How to play Blu-ray or 4K UHD disc?Start VLC and select “open disc …” (ctrl+D) from the Media menu. Select the CD-ROM where Blu-ray disks are located, then click ‘play’. When the following notification message is seen in the lower right corner of the display, the OpenCloner Decode Widget has been called correctly. Wait a moment, VLC should be able to play the disc normally. 5. How to play dvd menu?Many Blu-ray movies use the JAVA menu. If you see the following error during playback, you need to install the java package to play the Blu-ray menu. Download and install java from the Java site to resolve this issue. 6. How to set VLC Blu-ray region code?Open the VLC Preferences window, select “show settings=ALL” in the lower left corner, then select Input/Codecs -> Access modules -> Blu-ray in the list on the left, and then you can change the player’s default area code. This article was: Helpful | Not helpful Thank you for your feedback! Report an issue If you would like to add a comment, please do so Please report the article inaccuracies, grammatical errors, etc.
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