On Jun 16, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Jeffrey Engle wrote:
Is there anybody out there who has successfully gotten a sata blue- ray drive in an external esata enclosure to work?
Not on a Mac, there is no software support for Blu-ray playback in OS X. Remember, Steve Jobs said Apple was skipping Blu-ray because of the excessive licensing fees involved.
what about 3rd party software?
Yes, you must boot Windows directly if you want Blu-ray playback on your Mac.
In the reverse scenario, there is the x264 project <http://x264dev.multimedia.cx/?p=328 > to place Blu-ray quality/compatible content onto normal DVD5 & DVD9 discs (which can be played in a standard Blu-ray player). VLC is supporting this on Mac, so while you can't play a real Blu-ray disc on a Mac, you can play a DVD5 or DVD9 standard DVD with Blu-ray quality/ compatible content on a Mac if it's been created with x264 codec.
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