Friday, January 10, 2020

Blu-Ray on MacPro3,1 2008

There is no straight answer as life is kind of messy.
Can you install a BR drive on a 2008 MacPro3,1?  Absolutely.
Can you make it play a BR disc?  Maybe or maybe not.  If you have older version of VLC and a copy of MakeMKV, probably.  Not if you are on the latest version of VLC with "hardening" which I take it it means it needs authorized or signed library.  BR's encryption is a roadblock to many who would love to play BR on 1080P or even UHD.  You can still play the movie, such as by ripping it first then play the file accordingly.  One can just decrypt the disc into a mkv file and then you can play the mkv using vlc or have the mkv transcoded to some other file format you like.

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