Blu ray on Mac
Jason Davies
Hi folks,
I rather foolishly bought a blu ray player for my iMac. Now I'm discovering just how wild the west is with getting stuff from it (these are music-related videos in a collection rather than films).
I thought MakeMKV would handle them but it has told me it can't read the disks. VLC can't play them either (both because of encryption issues). I've been googling and found a bunch of differently priced but incredibly similar applications like AnyMP4 blu-ray ripper or Videbyte BD-DVD ripper with wildly varying prices. They seem to work but are a bit crashy.
Is this as good as it gets? Anyone got this to work happily? I just want to get the videos off the disks so I can watch them/listen properly.
Cheers,
Jason
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Jason Davies
On 11 Dec 2025, at 16:05, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote:
MakeMKV’s always handled anything I’ve thrown at it. Perhaps the bluray drive is suspect?
the weird expensive apps seem to successfully read them, wih all the limitations of the trials (eg only 5 minutes of video). I'll see if it behaves with DVDs that I know and trust.
MakeMKV reported a problem decoding AACS, as did VLC, so I'm trying to install things to fix that (they seem to require installing dev tools, then homebrew, then something else...still in the chain of that).
Cheers,
Jason