
Method 1: play encrypted Blu-ray discs for free on mac Finally insert Blu-ray disc into the drive. Now connect Blu-Ray hard drive with your mac via USB. Make sure the USB of your drive should be above 2.0. You can purchase a Blu-Ray hard drive from Amazon online. There are several third party bluray players such as Sony, Sumsung, LG. Apple superdrive doesn't support Blu-ray discs but only DVD discs. To play bluray movies on your mac, a Blu-Ray hard drive should be needed.

No matter what method do you adopt, only two methods to play bluray on mac will be introduced in detail. Then you can play the ripped files with any video player. So you can stream them to Apple TV, portable devices (iPad, iPhone, etc) and protect Blu-ray discs from scratching. Imelfin Blu-ray ripper can strip all types of DRM from Blu-ray discs and DVD discs. Don't mention that they bother with a specific Blu-ray player. In the fact, some are unable to tolerate their disc is locked in hard dirve. So some of us turn to purchase commercial Blu-ray player software which support the lastest encrypted bluray discs. So I can't promise that it enables us to play all the lastest Blu-ray discs. Because of these two files (keys database and AACS dynamic library) was updated to 20-04-2012. Thank for free VLC player which helps us to play encrypted bluray discs as ABC. The simple instruction will show you how to fix this problem. For encrypted bluray discs, you have to download and install two files: VLC encrypted Blu-Ray keys database and AACS dynamic library. Why? VLC player doesn't support blu ray discs which are protected from BD+ (AACS, Region Code, etc). However, if you want to play blu rays on mac with VLC directly, this method is not always effective. Potplayer and KMPlayer (Only for Window) all can play Blu-ray discs for free.

For window users, maybe it's easy to find freeware blu ray player. VLC is only natural choice for many people because of free and multiple platform support (Win/Mac). Moreover, its hard drive can't read bluray discs.
