Thursday, September 27, 2012

How to Play WMV file on Mac with Free WMV Player for Mac

WMV stands for Windows Media Video. It is developed and controlled by Microsoft for Internet streaming and watching videos on a personal computer. Sometimes it’s not an easy thing to play WMV movies on Mac with Apple’s QuickTime player. That is because of the competitive relation between Windows and Mac. And the two will never fully get along.
Playing WMV (Windows Media Video) on Mac needs the corresponding component for your QuickTime player. So the best way is to fine an alternative tool. Here we recommend the Aurora free WMV Player for Mac to you. Although, this Mac WMV player is not the only choice and there are also tools like VLC, Flip4Mac Component for Mac, etc. We still recommend the Aurora Blu-ray Player because it can not only play WMV file on Mac directly, but also be used as a powerful Blu-ray decryption tool.
The most important is that this free WMV Player for Mac is an all-in-one media player. It means you can play Blu-ray disc, ISO, DVD, Video CD, WMV, FLV, RMVB, etc. on Mac OS X directly and smoothly without any other third party plug-ins. Below I will show you how to play WMV files on Mac easily.

Tutorial in Detail

1. Download and install
Download free WMV Player for Mac and install it by dragging the APP file to your Applications folder. Then launch the application.
2. Play files
Now you can load the WMV files you'd like to play to the player the following ways:
- Drag the WMV files to the app window or onto its icon in the dock.
- Right-click a WMV file in Finder, select "Open With" option then choose Aurora Blu-ray Player.
- Choose "File" from Main menu -> "Open File". (”Open URL” allows you to play online WMVs).
WMV Player for Mac
Now you can enjoy WMV files on Mac with no hassle! Besides the WMV movies, you can also play various file types: Blu-ray, DVD, FLV, RM, MOV, MP4, AVI, MP3, WMA, etc.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

How to Play FLV on Mac directly with free FLV Player for Mac

Sometimes, you may encounter the situation that your QuickTime player can’t play your FLV from YouTube or other resource. At this time, you have to download the necessary codec to make it work. In this article, we will introduce you a free Mac FLV Player which allows you to play FLV on Mac directly without limitations. What we recommend is the Aurora Blu-ray Player. The tool can be used as a completely free FLV Player for Mac, also known as Flash Video Player, can play all files with FLV format.
Enjoy offline or online Flash videos with Aurora free FLV Player at any time you like. Besides the FLV media playback functions, all the other popular media formats are also available with this player. The most important is its Blu-ray decoding ability, with which you can play Blu-ray disc/ISO movies on Mac directly. Meanwhile, it offers convenient play list and easy play controls buttons to be more user-friendly.
Free download and install the player from Aurora Download Center
Below I will show you how to play FLV on Mac conveniently:
Step 1 Run the player as follow, drag or click “Open File” to load the FLV files.
FLV Player for Mac
Step 2 You can also play the online movies like YouTube, etc. To do this, just use the “File – Open URL” option on the top menu.
Open URL
Step 3 Use options under the “Video” menu, you can zoom in/out your window screen as your need.
Step 4 Use “Window - Playlist” menu to switch on/off the playlist, here you can manage your playlist easily.
Aurora Blu-ray Player also provides simple and clear interface, as well as social media sharing function. All make it the powerful media player for Mac OS X. It is worth having.

Sunday, September 23, 2012

How to Convert Blu-ray to ISO freely with Free Blu-ray Copy

The Blu-ray disc is the next successor of the standard DVD format, which provides more storage space. Its main uses are for storing high-definition movies and the 25 GB disc and 50 GB disc are applied for it. The ISO image is a disc image of an optical disc which is ended with an .ISO extension. If you have a lot of Blu-ray movie discs and want to backup them or share them via your Home Server, the ISO format will be the best choice. Now, what you need is just a one-step tool to help you convert these copyrighted Blu-rays to ISO image directly.
The Aurora Blu-ray Copy can be used as a free Blu-ray to ISO converter software. With which you can use it to convert Blu-ray to computer as ISO image on both Mac and Windows. For example, you can convert Avatar Blu ray to ISO without quality loss. With only this one tool, Blu-ray fans can decrypt most of encrypted Blu ray and convert Blu ray to ISO very conveniently.
Guide on how to convert Blu-ray to ISO freely
1. Go to http://www.bluray-player-software.com/download.htm, free download and install the Aurora Blu-ray Copy. Both Mac and Windows version are available here. You can choose the appropriate version according to your requirement. Here we take the Windows version as example.
2. After downloading, double click installation file, and run it as follow:
Blu-ray to ISO Converter
3. Insert the Blu-ray disc into your BD drive. Click the button in the Source area to choose the Blu-ray disc you want to deal with. Click “OK”.
Open
4. Click the button in the Destination area to define the output folder. You can input the output file name by yourself.
Note: The output folder should be more than 50GB space.
Disc Info
5. Click “Start” to begin to convert Blu-ray to ISO for your computer. This may cost some time according to your original disc size and you computer configuration.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

How to Play AVI on Mac with free AVI Player for Mac

Since AVI is one of the most widely used video formats, it's depressing when you can't play AVI on Mac. Many Mac users may encounter the situation that their QuickTime player can’t play some .AVI videos. This is often because of the codec issues. The QuickTime only support some specific AVI movies, which codec can be recognized by QuickTime player. There is also other kind of codec use the .AVI extension, which makes the issue more confused. Many DivX®-encoded files carry the .avi extension. And QuickTime does not support DivX natively.
There is a lot of ways available for Mac user to deal with the problem. You can download and install the third party components for you QuickTime to make it work (it may be complicated). And the easiest way is to use an all-in-one free AVI Player for Mac. Here we recommend the Aurora Blu-ray Player for you. With this AVI Media Player for Mac, users can play any kinds of AVI files on Mac OS X directly. What’s more, as its name said, the player can also play Blu-ray, DVD on Mac directly. There is no complicated operation for AVI playback.

Below is the guide:

Step 1
Free download and install the player from http://www.bluray-player-software.com/download.htm, install and run it on your Mac.
Step 2
You can click “File – Open File” on the menu to load AVI movies, or drag the AVI movies from your local folder for playback.

Step 3
Now you can play AVI on Mac with this free AVI Player for Mac very easily.
Note: You can use the right click to control your playback. More options are available from the top menu.

Thursday, September 13, 2012

How to Play RMVB files on Mac smoothly with RMVB Player for Mac?

Why we need an all in one free RMVB Player for Mac? The answer is simple, Apple QuickTime is not always playback the RM, RMVB files well, and you need more codec to make that work. At this time, a powerful all-functional but easy to use Mac RMVB Player will be very necessary. Here we introduce the Aurora Blu-ray player for you. It is an all-in-one media player which allows users to play Blu-ray disc/ISO, DVD movies, video, audio on Mac directly. The newest version is built-in with the optimized RMVB codec and can support the RM/RMVB movies playback very smoothly.

Some practical features are also available with this free RMVB Player for Mac. For example, you can not only play RMVB files on Mac from your local folder, but also from online source. For some no subtitle RMVB movies, you can add the external subtitles with the player. There is also the social function - the “Share” button. It allows Mac users to share the movies info and comments at any time with their friends on Fackbook and Twitter.

Below I will show you how to play RMVB on Mac directly.

First, you should download the Aurora Blu-ray player, install and run it on your Mac. There is not complicated operation, just launch the installation file and drag the app icon into the application folder.

Second, there is no need to download the other more codec. You can use the player to playback your RM/RMVB files directly. To add a RMVB files, just click the “Open File” and load the RMVB files you want to deal with.

Play RMVB

Note:
1. If you want to playback the online movies, you can go to the menu “File – Open URL…”.
2. The player allows you to add external subtitle for your RMVB movies. To do this, you should first download the subtitle files, then use the menu “Video – Subtitle Track – Open File…” to add.
3. You can use the BLUE share button at the bottom of the main screen to share your movie info with your friends via Facebook and Twitter.

Sunday, September 9, 2012

How to Play 1080P MKV on Mac with Free Mac MKV Player

The MKV is a multimedia container format which can hold an unlimited of video, audio or subtitle tracks in one file. They are often high quality videos might be ripped from Blu-ray/DVD movies, or exported from HD stream. Some standard movie players may not be deal with MKV at its first appearance. But now, you can play HD MKV files on both Mac and Windows easily. What you need to do is just download an app or codec that supports playing the high quality video format.
There are a lot of free media players available now for you playback the high quality MKV files. Here we recommend the Aurora Blu-ray Player for Mac. It is not only powerful Blu-ray player software, but also a completely free Mac MKV player. That means you can play 1080P MKV on Mac very smoothly. It can be used as free Mac DVD player, free HD movie player for Mac just as your VLC or Apple DVD player. And the most important is that it can play Blu-ray disc, ISO, folder directly on your Mac.

Below I will show you how to play 1080P MKV on Mac OS

Step 1 Free download the free Mac MKV player from Aurora download center, install it on your Mac. The installation is very easy, just launch the .dmg file and copy into your Application folder. Then you can drag the application icon to your Dock.
Step 2 Run the player from your Dock, click “Select file” to load the MKV videos you want to deal with.
Aurora free MKV Player
Step 3 If your MKV movie contains multiple audio and subtitle tracks, you can switch them with the Audio and Video menu at the top of the screen.
Now you can enjoy your MKV movies on your Mac, this tutorial can also be applied for other HD formats like AVI, MP4, MOV, etc. By the way, the Aurora Blu-ray player for Mac is a completely free tool except the commercial Blu-ray playback. You should buy the full version to remove the watermark when playback Blu-rays.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

How to Play Blu-ray disc, ISO, DVD folder with Aurora Blu-ray Player for Mac

What you need before playback:

1. Internet Collection;
2. Blu-ray Drive;
3. Blu-ray disc
4. Aurora Blu-ray Player for Mac
Free download from http://www.bluray-player-software.com/download.htm and install the Aurora Blu-ray Player on your Mac

Guide

Part 1 Play Blu-ray disc on Mac
For Apple never makes the Blu-ray support available on their computer, an external Blu-ray drive is necessary here for reading Blu-ray disc.
1. Insert the disc into BD drive,
2. Run Aurora Blu-ray Player for Mac, the app will load Blu-ray automatically.
3. If not, you can click “Open Disc” to load the Blu-ray manually.
Part 2 Play Blu-ray ISO on Mac
If you have backup some Blu-ray ISO image files in your local folder, you can use this Aurora Blu-ray Player to enjoy the ISO movie files directly. To do this, just click “Open File” button to load Blu-ray ISO image file directly.
Part 3 Play DVD, Video and Audio on Mac Freely
Besides the Blu-ray disc/ISO playback, you can also use the Aurora Blu-ray Player as a versatile media player. That means you can play DVD disc/ISO movies, HD video and audio completely free.
Note: The unregistered version will be watermarked when playback Blu-ray movies, you should buy the full version to remove that.

Monday, September 3, 2012

How to Play Blu-ray on Macbook Pro with Aurora Blu-ray Player Software

Does the MacBook Pro support the Blu-ray playback? The answer is no. But with an external Blu-ray drive and third party Blu-ray player software, this will be a piece of cake. The newest MacBook Pro is updated with stunning retina display, which will make your HD playback more enjoyable. Blu-ray, as the new generation of HD movie compression standard, is more and more popular among us. But, to playback Blu-ray on a Mac computer is still a big hurt for all Mac users due to the Apple's not support for Blu-rays. In this article, we will introduce an easy way to deal with that.
As we all know that, the MacBook Pro only have the DVD drive. So, to play Blu-rays, an external Blu-ray drive is necessary, you can get one from the amazon.com, as well as a Blu-ray DVD player software. The Aurora Blu-ray player for Mac will be the best choice for you. The tool not only allows you to play Blu-ray on your MacBook Pro, but also on Macbook Air, iMac, Mac mini, etc. You can enjoy the Blu-ray disc, Blu-ray foler, Blu-ray ISO on your MacBook Pro directly. What’s more, it is also a free DVD media player. You can use it to play DVD movies and other kinds of HD movies smoothly.
Note: Before Blu-ray playback, you should make sure that a BD drive(USB2.0 or above) is connected with your MacBook Pro and the internet connection is well.

Guide on Playback Blu-ray on MacBook Pro

Step 1
Free download the Blu-ray player software from Aurora download center, install it on your MacBook.

Step 2
Connect the Blu-ray disc drive with your computer, and run the player, it will read the Blu-ray automatically.

Now you can enjoy your Blu-ray movies on your MacBook Pro. It is very easy.