Blu-ray is just a bag of hurt. It's great to watch the movies, but the licensing of the tech is so complex, we're waiting till things settle down and Blu-ray takes off in the marketplace. 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.
Thank you for this! I'm going to try it tonight. I'm one of those people who still buys movies on blu-ray, but I swear they're doing everything they can to push me toward piracy. Playing a blu-ray on my PC is so difficult and non-functional, I honestly don't understand how anybody thinks the format is in an acceptable state.
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. 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.