Playback of bluray on Mac is still a bit of roll your own. Some folks
say you should just rip the disc with MakeMKV and then play it back with
VLC. For regular DVDs you should be able to just use Apple's DVD player.
The difficulty with any flavor of video disk is that if you are in the
states the mere act of copying the data off your disk violates the
digital millenium copyright act. This relegates useful tools to the
backwaters of the internet and overseas.
CB
On 5/30/13 1:49 PM, shane christenson wrote:
Hi folks. I'm considering buying an external fire wire or u s b cd/dvd/blu ray
reader/writer for my mac mini. I would prefer something I don't have to plug
into electricity, but if it has to have wall power, that's not by any means a
deal breaker. I don't care if it doesn't write to blu ray disks, but I have
several blu ray disks I'd like to watch on my new machine. Any and all
recommendations will be greatly appreciated and considered.
My second question is, if I have a dvd or blu ray disk I want to extract just
the audio tracks from, specifically if the disk has a descriptive audio track,
is there Mac software out there that will do this? I've heard of HandBrake,
but, unless I'm wrong about this, it handles audio and video. If it will handle
audio only, and allow for the extraction of the d v s track, and if it is
VO-accessible, I'll sure give it a try. Thanks for your help on any of this.
Shane
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