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Note: I also found and reported a bug in VLC’s DVD menu support but they don’t seem interested even though it affects all versions of VLC i.e. You can in theory bypass the menu and play the main title directly. I find VLC’s Blu-Ray menu support to be flakey but better than nothing. However if some other tool has copied the contents and defeated the DRM then VLC can play it. VLC itself does not have the ability to bypass the DRM. VLC has some support for playing Blu-Ray menus and does support both H.264 and H.265 codecs. Note: Cracking the DRM is a crime in many countries. So if you have a suitable three layer drive and a tool to crack the DRM and a player to play H.265 you may be good to go.

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I believe the Blu-Ray ‘menu’ is the same on both 1080p and 4K titles, so a player that can understand the structure of a Blu-ray Disc can play both as long as it also has both H.264 and H.265 codec support.

However external USB drives typically have a SATA connection in the enclosure so this may no longer be an issue. I recall reading originally that this requied a desktop PC with a SATA connection rather than USB.

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However I also believe it has already been defeated or equally likely if you have a Blu-Ray drive physically capable of reading the third (additional) layer and hence is hardware compatible then you can use that drive to also defeat the remaining software protections. I believe this does involve some hardware differences in the drive. Blu-Ray UHD discs have additional DRM protection over 1080p discs.A standard Blu-Ray 1080p disc will typically use the H.264 codec, a UHD disc will typically use the H.265 codec which is roughly twice as efficient.A Blu-Ray 4K disc will have either two or three layers. This can be considered equivalent to a DVD5 vs DVD9. A ‘standard’ Blu-Ray 1080p disc will have one or two layers, a single layer disc has a maximum capacity of 25GB, a dual layer disc 50GB.There are several differences between Blu-Ray 1080p discs and Blu-Ray 4K aka UHD discs. MacOS will see it as a data drive, but with third-party software (VLC or something commercial), you should be able to play movies. Any USB drive that supports the UHD format should be compatible. So a 50 GB UHD disc should be compatible with any drive - it’s the same format as a standard 2-layer Blu-Ray disc (although you will need a 4x drive to keep up with the 92 Mbit/s data rate).īut the higher capacity UHD discs store 33 GB (vs Blu-Ray’s 25 GB) per layer and may have three layers, making them incompatible with non-UHD drives.īut you don’t need a Mac-specific drive. On 66 GB and 100 GB discs, the pits and lands are not narrower than those of a standard Blu-ray Disc, but shorter, which increases the capacity of each layer from 25 GB to 33 1/3 GB. The specification allows for three disc capacities, each with its own data rate: 50 GB at 72 or 92 Mbit/s, and 66 GB and 100 GB at 92, 123, or 144 Mbit/s. Ultra HD Blu-ray - Wikipedia Specifications It may require some tweaking to get everything working well, but as free software, you may want to start with it before considering commercial software packages that may cost as much as a physical 4K Blu-Ray player.

You may want to start with the open source VLC software.

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I did some web searching and found some articles that might provide some starting points for a search: See my followup post.Īs for the required player software, I have no experience here. For example the models sold by OWC advertises 6x and 16x speeds.Ĭorrection: I spoke too soon. I suspect that most drives meant for computer use should be able to keep up since they are going to be faster than “1x”.

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So any USB-connected Blu-Ray drive should be enough to read the files that make up the movie content if it can keep up with the higher data-rate. As I understand it 4K UHD Blu-Ray discs are the same physical format as ordinary Blu-Ray discs.

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