Use XBMC for Blu-ray Playback on Mac

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XBMC is a free and open source software media player and entertainment hub for digital media which is available for Linux, Mac OS X and Windows, as well as the original Xbox game console.

While XBMC functions very well as a standard media player application for your computer, it has been designed to be the perfect companion for your HTPC.

Currently XBMC can be used to play almost all popular audio and video formats around. If you are willing to play Blu-ray videos on your Mac, it could be a solution for you.

First download XBMC. Official builds can be found here http://xbmc.org/download/, unofficial nightly builds can be found here http://sshcs.com/xbmc/. Use the latter at your own risk, there is no guarantee that the build is stable.

Mount the downloaded disk image after you finish downloading by simply double-clicking its icon, and then drop the XBMC bundle on Application folder.

You may add it to dock by draging the icon into Dock bar if you want.

You can also install XBMC on your Apple TV, here we just refer to the installation on ATV 2gen (ATV 1gen see here)
Have your Apple TV 2 jailbroken, and type as following in Terminal:

$ ssh root@<your ATV2 IP address>

root@<your ATV2 IP address>'s password: ''enter your password here, it should be "alpine" if you haven't changed it''

$ apt-get install wget

$ wget -O- http://apt.awkwardtv.org/awkwardtv.pub | apt-key add -

$ echo "deb http://apt.awkwardtv.org/ stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/awkwardtv.list

$ echo "deb http://mirrors.xbmc.org/apt/atv2 ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/xbmc.list

$ apt-get update

$ apt-get install org.xbmc.xbmc-atv2

After XBMC is successfully installed, frontrow(ATV2 home screen) will restart and you will see XBMC in it.

Mount your Blu-ray disc in your external drive (of course you should buy one first). Use Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac to backup your entire Blu-ray disc as an MKV file for that there’s no way for Mac OS X to directly playback your BD movies due to an authority limitation. Simply run the app, load your disc and click MKV, then wait for finishment. It takes no longer than an hour or two.