I’ve just received my first Blu-Ray disc (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off) and straight away, OS X reads it. I thought OS X couldn’t read Blu-Ray?

Was it that OS X can’t play back the files? If so, I don’t mind. I have MakeMKV (currently ripping the disc) which seems okay so far. Disc was read fine, titles and chapters have been scanned and now it’s decrypting.

It says it will take roughly 50mins to extract the main title which is just over 30gb.

MakeMKV is touted as some kind of freeware or opensource (at least that’s what I thought) until the Blu-Ray disc was read, it popped up a message saying that in 30 days my trail time will end.

Nevertheless, if it succeeds then I’ll buy it.

Update: Yeah, this works sweet. It outputs the file as MKV but it’s transcoded, so quality isn’t lost, picture isn’t cropped etc. Then i drop that into Handbrake and re-compress to suit 4.2gb (single layer DVD) or 8.4gb (dual layer)! Great quality Just a shame the app is expensive at £50 as all it does is dump the decrypted info. Surely there will be an open source decrypt somewhere?