I have blu-ray iso's on my pc that I share with all the computers on my network. I want to be able to play the iso's on my macbook that is connected to my hdtv. There has to be some kind of software that can play a blu-ray image. Can someone point me in the right direction.
Sorry, I don't have a Mac Pro; so I'm sure whether it has one or two digital video connectors, such as DVI. Why not use your HDTV as your monitor? Desktops can use HDTV cards, but you can use a DVI to HDMI cable or possibly just an HDMI cable. You probably have to connect, for sound, the stereo sockets on your MacBook Pro either to amplified speakers or possibly the black and white sockets on your TV, though I have a vague memory of running both along some HDMI cables. The option, I suppose, is somehow to use Apple TV. (It must have some good purpose.)
Yes, the place to ask is the Mac Video forum, Linux Video Forum (for every Intel Mac can boot GNU/Linux from USB flash drive), or, preferably a more general HD forum. Sorry, too much egg-nog. I had read that VLC and Mplayer would not read Blu-ray discs, but would play streaming Blu-ray. I assumed you had a Linux-ported player that played your disc image. Can your Microsoft program stream the image? (The OS is 10x larger than Apple's.) Though I only program my iBook to play a toaster, my understanding is that Blue-ray is just a common video codec, H.264 or MPEG-2, wrapped in an MPEG streaming container. This container has the suffix '.m2ts' when written as a file rather than a disc image. So, if Quicktime, VLC, or Mplayer won't read your disc image (ISO9660, which is for Blu-ray data archives), the video experts here may have a program that can convert your image into a .m2ts file, or any other video file with the same resolution as your Blu-ray video: a file that one of the above players will play. All other solutions I can think of would degrade your image to DVD quality. Try streaming it to VLC first. Blu-ray requires remarkably little bandwidth. Wikipedia Lists Players of Blu-ray .m2ts Files However, you need to attract the attention of the Video experts. Apple, as you know, doesn't officially support Blu-ray, though the Blu-ray Disc Association started making discs in 2004 or so, and Apple is on its Board of Directors!
