Thursday, April 11, 2013

Apple Blu-ray Player for Enjoy Blu-ray on iMac, Mac Pro, Mac Mini, Macbook, etc.

Apple Blu-ray Player software is available on the Internet now. Although Apple’s computer never produced with built-in Blu-ray drive, there is a big desire of Mac Blu-ray HD fans for enjoy Blu-ray on their iMac, Mac Pro, Macbook Pro, Air, etc. There is no original Blu-ray codec for the OS X system. Here I want to recommend you all-in-one Apple Blu-ray Player software – Aurora Blu-ray Player for Mac. The tool allows users playback Blu-ray and DVD movies with amazing cinema experience. The advanced hardware acceleration technology make the smoothest movie enjoy on your Mac OS.
If you got tons of downloaded videos in HD format, Aurora Apple Blu-ray Player is also the best companion for you. With the built-in optimized High Definition codec, it can deal with 1080P HD movies without any difficulty, whether it’s AVCHD, MKV, FLV, MPEG-4, MOV, RM/RMVB or WMV HD videos. Also a very simple and practical function is also available which let you add external srt subtitles.
Apple Blu-ray Player
Besides the extreme Blu-ray HD visual experience, the latest version of Aurora Blu-ray Player also allows you to output Blu-ray DTS HD 7.1 channel surround sound. With a HDMI 1.3(or later) and a 7.1 AMP, you can experience crisp audio with lossless pass-through for DTS-HD Master Audio.
The simple playlist allows you to manage your media conveniently. This Apple Mac Blu-ray Player is also a social tool. With which you can publish your Blu-ray & HD media files to your social network accounts and share with your friends.
This Apple media player is perfectly support the all types of the original Blu-ray discs and can deal with the Cinavia detection very well. This Blu-ray Player supports to decrypt Blu-ray disc with the latest MKB protection including AACS and BD+ Blu-ray disc. With this Mac Blu-ray Player, you can enjoy any types of Blu-ray HD movies on your Mac.
1. Smoothly play multimedia files, including Blu-ray, DVD, HD video, SD video, audio
2. Comprehensive format support including almost all video files
3. Play various audio formats, including WMA, M4A, AAC, FLAC, and AMR
4. Easily share your favorite videos with your family and friends
Just download Aurora Blu-ray Player Software and enjoy Blu-ray on both your Mac and Windows.

Monday, April 1, 2013

Enjoy Blu-ray on HDTV via Apple TV on Mac Mountain Lion


There is a lot of ways available for enjoy Blu-ray on Mac and the latest OS X Mountain Lion allows users to send their computer screen to HDTV via Airplay Mirroring with Apple TV. So below I will show you the way to enjoy Blu-ray on HDTV via Apple TV on Mac Mountain Lion. AirPlay Mirroring in OS X Mountain Lion takes advantage of the hardware video encoding capabilities of 2nd and 3rd Generation Intel Core processors. Hardware video encoding allows AirPlay Mirroring to efficiently deliver high frame rates while maintaining optimal system performance.

Requirements for AirPlay Mirroring in OS X Mountain Lion

1. iMac (Mid 2011 or newer), Mac mini (Mid 2011 or newer), MacBook Air (Mid 2011 or newer), MacBook Pro (Early 2011 or newer).
2. Apple TV (2nd or 3rd generation) with software update v5.0 or later. See How to update Apple TV software.
3. AirPlay Mirroring requires either a Wi-Fi (802.11 a/g/n) connection or an Ethernet connection to the same local network that your Apple TV uses.
4. Aurora Blu-ray Player for Mac and Blu-ray drive(USB2.0 or above)

Turning AirPlay Mirroring on and off

If your Mac supports AirPlay Mirroring, an AirPlay Mirroring menu extra appears in the menu bar when an Apple TV is on the same network. Turn on/off mirroring by selecting an Apple TV from the AirPlay Mirroring menu:
 Apple TV
Note: The AirPlay Mirroring menu extra icon is blue when AirPlay Mirroring is on.

Resolution matching modes

You can choose between two desktop resolution matching modes that let you select which display will have the best image. When AirPlay Mirroring is turned on, select a "Match Desktop Size" choice via the AirPlay Mirroring menu extra.
 Apple TV Size
Match Desktop Size To: Apple TV
AirPlay Mirroring changes the desktop resolution to best match your Apple TV, resulting in 16:9 aspect ratio that fills the HDTV screen. This setting often produces the sharpest image on the HDTV.
Match Desktop Size To: This Mac
AirPlay Mirroring scales the contents of the desktop to fit on the Apple TV, leaving the resolution of your Mac's display unchanged. Use this setting for the sharpest image on your Mac's display.

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Mac DTS 7.1 Player – How to Output Blu-ray DTS HD on Mac

If you have a great Mac HTPC with an enthusiastic high-fidelity audio equipment and want to enjoy Blu-ray or HD MKV with DTS 7.1 audio output, have you got the tool satisfy you? For a very long time, there is no easy way for home users to enjoy Blu-ray or MKV movies with high fidelity lossless output. The only way is to transcode the original DTS 7.1 into 7.1 L-PCM or down mix into 5.1 or 2.1 tracks. In this article, I will introduce you the DTS and how to output multi-channel surround sound.
If you have a great Mac HTPC with an enthusiastic high-fidelity audio equipment and want to enjoy Blu-ray or HD MKV with DTS 7.1 audio output, have you got the tool satisfy you? For a very long time, there is no easy way for home users to enjoy Blu-ray or MKV movies with high fidelity lossless output. The only way is to transcode the original DTS 7.1 into 7.1 L-PCM or down mix into 5.1 or 2.1 tracks. In this article, I will introduce you the DTS and how to output multi-channel surround sound.
What is DTS?
DTS is a private company that develops audio formats, pretty much like Dolby. With term "DTS" people generally speaking refer to DTS's digital surround audio technology that is used widely on Blu-ray or DVD-Video discs, just like Dolby's Dolby Digital/AC3/.
DTS HD vs DTS HD Master Audio
DTS-HD, or as it's properly know, DTS-HD Master Audio, is a form of Digital Theatre System (DTS) audio, owned by DTS, Inc. DTS-HD supports an unlimited number of surround sound channels. It supports bitrates from DTS Digital Surround up to lossless audio and can be down-mixed to 5.1CH and 2CH audio. DTS-HD Master Audio finds its audience in home theater systems by being part of the specifications of blue laser next generation formats. Blu-ray Disc has selected DTS-HD as an optional surround sound format to be included on retail titles to provide the highest quality audio. So does the Dolby TrueHD, which also the format that provides compressed lossless surround sound for blue laser formats.
How to Output DTS 5.1 and TrueHD AC3 with Audio Optical?
Here take Macbook Pro Mid 2011 with Mac OS X 10.7.2 as example, as it can support audio optical output through headset jack. What’s more, a headset adapter is necessary for connecting optical cable with your Macbook Pro and you AMP(Amplifier) should support the DTS output. With the help of Aurora Mac Blu-ray Player, you can output DTS /Dobly AC3 5.1 from MKV files or other Blu-ray/DVD movies with 5.1 channels.
 Mac DTS 7.1 Player
How to Output Blu-ray DTS 7.1 on Mac with HDMI 1.3?
Almost the same way with 5.1 channels output, but output DTS HD 7.1 need more equipment supports. An optical cable cannot handle the bandwidth necessary for the DTS-HD or TrueHD track, and thus you'd be limited to a maximum of 5.1 channels. You would have to have the audio output via HDMI 1.3 or above. HDMI 1.3 added support for the Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio lossless compression formats used with Blu-ray Disc. It also supports all compressed formats such as Dolby Digital and DTS audio. HDMI 1.3 also added another feature, automatic audio syncing. This works by adjusting the audio processing times to remove lip sync problems.
To output Blu-ray DTS HD7.1 on Mac, you need:  
1. Aurora Blu-ray Player Software;
2. External or Internal Blu-ray Drive;
3. AMP(Amplifier) support DTS HD output;
4. Adapter/Connector if necessary;
5. HDMI 1.3 specification or later.
To playback a DTS HD Blu-ray disc, the above configuration will make you enjoy your Blu-ray movie with extreme realistic sound effects.

Sunday, March 10, 2013

Free Mac MXF Player - Play MXF Files on Mac OS X

Some Mac users may encounter the .mxf file on their Mac but can’t enjoy them with the QuickTime player, etc. And you may curious and want to know what MXF file is? The MXF(Material Exchange Format) is a "container" format which supports a number of different streams of coded "essence", encoded with any of a variety of codecs, together with a metadata wrapper which describes the material contained within the MXF file. It has full timecode and metadata support, and is intended as a platform-agnostic stable standard for future professional video and audio applications.
The Apple QuickTime can’t deal with the MXF files directly, you may need download some extra codec or plugin which may be a little complicated. So here we want to recommend you powerful third party Mac media player software – Aurora Mac MXF Player. The tool is a fully functional media playback app which can play MXF files on Mac without any difficulty as well as any other DVD disc/ISO/folder, HD movies, video, audio files, etc. The most important is that it is a power Blu-ray media player software for Mac OS X. Just own this one tool, you can enjoy any types of formats and Blu-ray HD movies with the most comfortable enjoy.
There is no difficulty operations for you enjoy MXF movies on your Mac:
Step 1. Free Download Free Mac MXF Player and install it on your Mac. The tool is a completely standalone Mac media player, so you can playback any type of video and audio files directly.
Step 2. There are several ways for you to load MXF files into your player. After running the MXF player, you can click “Open File” to add the MXF files or just drag and drop MXF files onto the player for enjoy.
Step 3. You can check the "Media Information" with the option under Window menu.
Media Info
Step 4. You can also sychronize the Audio or Subtitles track if need under Windows menu.
Track Sychronization
Step 5. You can also playback any kind of Blu-ray, DVD, HD movies, video, audio, etc. If you want to enjoy Blu-ray disc movies, an external Blu-ray drive is necessary.

Thursday, February 28, 2013

Play Blu-ray on iMac - Aurora iMac Blu-ray Player

For a very long time, after the launch of Blu-ray technology, there is no easily way to allow Mac users enjoy Blu-ray HD movies on their device. What you can do is just to rip and convert Blu-ray into Mac compatible formats. It is really an inefficient way. But now, there is powerful Blu-ray player software available on Mac OS. With an external Blu-ray drive, any users owned iMac, Macbook, etc. can enjoy Blu-ray disc movies taking advantage of Aurora Blu-ray Player. The Aurora iMac Blu-ray Player supports all types of Intel iMac computers and can run on Mac OS X from 10.6 – 10.8 smoothly. If you now happen to get an Mac compatible Blu-ray drive and want to enjoy the Blu-ray disc movies you bought, Aurora Blu-ray Player will be your best choice.
Besides the Blu-ray disc, ISO, folder files, this iMac Blu-ray Player Software also allows iMac users to playback DVD disc/ISO/folder, HD movies, video, audio, etc. without any difficulty. The perfect decoding of Blu-ray HD and the support for DTS make Aurora Blu-ray Player the best companion for iMac Home Theater. Below I will show you the way in detail.

How to Play Blu-ray on iMac? 

There is no complicated operation for enjoy Blu-ray movies on iMac with Aurora Blu-ray Player. What you need is just the Mac compatible Blu-ray drive. Internet Connection is also necessary if the Blu-ray disc first time playback on your iMac.
Step 1. Free Download Aurora iMac Blu-ray Player and install it on your computer.
Step 2. Click the *.dmg installation file and drag the app icon into the application folder to accomplish the installation.
Step 3. Connect your Blu-ray disc drive with your iMac and insert the Blu-ray disc you want to enjoy. The player will read it automatically.
 Aurora iMac Blu-ray Player
Step 4. When you enjoy the movie, you can control the playback with right click. And you can also share the movie via the “Share” button with your friends on Facebook and Twitter.

Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Enjoy Blu-ray on Macbook Air – Best Blu-ray Player for Macbook Air

Do you want to play Blu-ray on Macbook Air? If you just got an External USB 2.0 Blu-Ray drive Writer/Burner, and want to enjoy Blu-ray on your Macbook Air, what tool should you use? There is free way available before, for example, the MakeMKV which allows you to rip Blu-ray Disc into MKV formats so that you can enjoy it with the VLC, etc. But the Blu-ray ripping work is really a time-consuming job. So here I will recommend a tool which can directly playback Blu-ray DVD disc on your Macbook Air – Aurora Blu-ray Player for Mac. The tool allows Mac users to enjoy Blu-ray disc movies on all types of Apple Macbook Air. What’s more, Aurora Blu-ray Player for Macbook Air supports playback Blu-ray ISO/folder, DVD disc/ISO/folder, HD movies, video, audio, etc. Below I will show you the way to enjoy Blu-ray on Macbook Air.

 How to enjoy Blu-ray on Macbook Air?

Please note that the external Blu-ray drive and Internet Connection are necessary for enjoy Blu-ray disc movies on Mac OS. So make sure you have made external Blu-ray drive connected with your Macbook Air.
Step 1. Free download and install Aurora Blu-ray Player for Macbook Air on your computer.
Step 2. Run it from your application folder, click "Open Disc" to load the Blu-ray DVD movie you want to enjoy.
Blu-ray on Macbook Air
Step 3. Besides Blu-ray disc playback, you can also enjoy the Blu-ray ISO movies, Blu-ray folder, DVD disc/ISO/folder, HD movies, video, audio, etc.

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Region Free Blu-ray Player for Mac

Why we need a region free Blu-ray Player for Mac? If you are a Blu-ray DVD fans, you may have encountered the boring situation that caused by not being able to play Blu-ray movie disc due to the region code restrictions. As with the implementation of region codes for DVDs, Blu-ray Disc players sold in a specific geographical region. Although some current estimates suggest 70% of available Blu-ray Discs from the major studios are region-code-free, you may still have to bear the restrictions in some specific area.
In the era of standard definition, different discs were applied for NTSC and PAL region but this has nothing to do with high definition movies now. TV sets around the world do NOT differ intrinsically in their high definition capabilities (and BD playback in particular). This is intended to permit content providers (motion picture studios, etc.) to do effective price differentiation between regions.
While this may be good for the studios and their business, it is really a pain for the end-users on account of some reasons: Some high quality Blu-ray discs are only available in a single area. For example, if you are live in the North America (region A) and you received Blu-ray disc coded in region B (Europe) from your friends. you might not enjoy the Blu-ray very easily. Luckily some studios are good enough to release their discs as region-free, but most movie companies release region-locked discs only, or mixed ones.
This annoying situation for DVD movies was finally solved with multi-region players, which allows you to define your DVD drive region code by yourself(often up to 5 changes) like Apple DVD player, etc. So what can you do to deal with the case of BDs?
Region free Blu-ray Player Software for Mac Mountain Lion(10.8, 10.7, 10.6)
In Mac systems, the only way to enjoy Blu-ray is with external Blu-ray drive and a third party Blu-ray Player software. As for our topic, we need a region free Blu-ray Player for Mac. For DVDs, the player software products typically allow for up to 5 changes in their settings menus before finalizing the region code. For Blu-rays, now we recommend a completely region free one for you – Aurora Blu-ray Player. That means your Blu-ray region code restrictions can be removed directly without any extra operations.
For Windows system, you may buy two (or even three like PowerDVD, TotalMedia, WinDVD) different BD playing packages and have one set for region A and another for region B (or region C, if you so desire) as there is no multi-region Blu-ray software availabel on Windows now. But Mac users don't need worry about this, because the Aurora Blu-ray Player can ignore the Region Code restrictions and playback Blu-ray movie disc directly.
Aurora Blu-ray Player is powerful and useful Blu-ray player software for any Mac users. It offers the best support for any types of Blu-ray discs  on Mac OS 10.8, 10.7, 10.6. No matter what kinds of Blu-ray drive you are using, you are free from the annoying region restrictions. The tool is an all-in-one Blu-ray media player which allows Mac users to enjoy Blu-ray disc, ISO, folder on Mac without any difficulty. What’s more, you can also enjoy DVD disc with any region(up to 5 changes), DVD ISO, DVD folder, Video CD, HD movies, video, audio, etc.

Thursday, January 10, 2013

Free Mac VOB Player – Play VOB Files on Mac Directly

How Do You Play VOB files on Mac? If you have some stand-alone VOB files and want to make them playback on your Mac computer, you need a third party Mac VOB Player to help you. As The built-in media players Mac platform — QuickTime can’t support VOB format natively. In order to resolve VOB playback problem on Mac computer, here, I’ll introduce the best VOB player for help.
What is VOB? VOB is the DVD format that contains main DVD information like audio, video, subtitles and menus etc. Video is MPEG-2, audio can be AC-3, Linear PCM, Mpeg 2 multichannel or MPEG1 layer2 2 channel audio. VOB is based on the MPEG program stream format, but with additional limitations and specifications in the private streams.
You may use the VLC media player or Mplayer, but here I want to recommend you a more powerful one – Aurora VOB Player for Mac. The tool works well on all Mac OS (Mountain Lion included). Apart from playing VOB files, Aurora also allows you to play files in other video format that QuickTime fails to play natively, such as most MPEG/VOB, ASF/WMA/WMV, VIVO, QT/MOV/MP4, AVI, Ogg/OGM and so on.

How to Pay VOB File on Mac?

There is nothing complicated to enjoy VOB videos on your Mac. What you should do is just to free download Aurora VOB Player for Mac and install it on your Mac. Please note that if you want to playback the Blu-ray disc, the Internet Connection and external Blu-ray drive are also necessary.
Step 1: Import VOB files by clicking "Open File" or directly dragging files to this program.
 Play VOB
Step 2: You can use the right click to control your playback like Pause/Stop, Backward/Forward, Volume Down/Up, Full Screen, Snapshot, etc.
Step 3: This tool also allows you to add external subtitles. To do this, you can right click "Subtitle Track" - "Open File". You can adjust the subtitle style under "Tools - Preferences - Subtitle".
Aurora Mac VOB Player is the best media player for play not only VOB and other videos, but also any type of Blu-ray and DVD movies.

Monday, January 7, 2013

Free Mac HD Player – Play All Types of HD Media on Mac OS Lion

What way do you use to enjoy HD movies like 1080P on your Mac? Some users may use the QuickTime with some plugins like perian to deal with the High Definition; some just use the VLC to playback the HD videos on Mac easily. Here I just want to recommend you a more powerful Mac HD Player which can not only deal with the 1080P videos, but also the Blu-ray HD movies – Aurora Blu-ray player.
Aurora Blu-ray Player is an all functional stand alone Mac media player. It is very easy to use and you can enjoy HD 1080P movies like MKV, WMV, MOV, etc. directly on your Mac without any other third party applications. It is a must-have tool which allows Mac users to enjoy both Blu-ray and HD movies on their MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac Mini, etc.
Sometimes you can still not enjoy the 1080P movies because the ability for your Mac to play H.264/MPEG-4 High Definition HD video content also depends on its hardware capabilities. To play 1080p is more hardware intensive since it runs at 1920×1080 resolution, you will need at least the following Mac configuration to get roughly 25 frames per second:
* Dual 2.0 GHz Intel Core Duo or faster processor or highly recommended
* 512MB of RAM or more (2GB+ highly recommended)
* 128MB or better video card

How to Enjoy HD or Blu-ray Media on Mac OS X?

Step 1, Free download Aurora Mac HD Player and install it on your Mac
 Aurora Mac HD Player
Step 2, Load HD MKV, HD MOV, HD WMV, etc. files by dragging and dropping into the player or you can also click “Open File” to load the movies you want to playback.
Note: If you are playing the Blu-ray movies, you must have a Blu-ray Drive connected and make sure the Internet Connection is well.
Step 3, Now you can enjoy the High Definition media on your Mac. Besides the Blu-ray HD playback, this HD video player for Mac also allows users enjoy DVD, video, audio, etc.

Saturday, January 5, 2013

Free Mac MP4 Player – Play MP4 Files on Mac OS X Easily

Do you guys need a free Mac MP4 Player? MP4 is a very popular media formats used on your iPad, iPhone, iTunes, iMac, etc. Sometimes you may encounter the situation that your QuickTime player can’t deal with the .mp4 files, that means the player cannot find a suitable decoder for the file. And then the player may try to download the corresponding codec to play MP4 on Mac. However, if fruitless, you may want to convert MP4 into a more compatible MOV format, or you can also ask other MP4 Player for Mac for help. Here we recommend the Aurora Blu-ray Player for you.
This tool is an all-in-one Mac media player which allows users to enjoy DVD, video, audio, etc. on Mac at no charge. This free Mac MP4 player supports the newest Mountain Lion OS very well. There is not any problem to play all types of MPEG4 files on your iMac, Mac Pro, Mac Book, Mac Mini, etc. Besides, the Aurora Blu-ray player is the best tool to directly enjoy Blu-ray disc, ISO, Blu-ray folder on Mac OS X.

Below I will show you the way to play MP4 files on Mac OS X Easily

Step 1. Installation
Free Download MP4 Player for Mac, double click the installation file and drag the app icon into Application folder to install the tool on your Mac.
Step 2. Run
Run Aurora Mac MP4 Player from the Application folder, or you can also drag the APP into your Dock for quick start next time.
Step 3. Load MP4 files
You can click “Open File” to load the MP4 files you want to enjoy or drag and drop the movies into the player window directly.
Mac MP4 Player
Step 4. Enjoy other types of media like Blu-ray, DVD, HD movies, etc.
Aurora Blu-ray Player is completely free for playback DVD, HD, video, audio, etc. but watermarked when deal with Blu-ray movies. You can remove this limitation with buying the full version. Users also should know that both Internet Connection and external Blu-ray drive are necessary for Mac users to enjoy Blu-ray on their computer.

Thursday, January 3, 2013

Free MPEG Player for Mac – Play MPEG/MPG Files on Mac

Have trouble in opening .mpg or .mpeg files in Mac? The QuickTime sometimes cannot find a suitable decoder for the file, you need download the necessary components for playback all kinds of MPG videos. So if you want to play MPEG video files in Mac (Mountain Lion) without any troubles, you’d better choose a powerful MPEG Player for Mac.
MPEG stands for Moving Picture Experts Group which specializes in the development of video and audio encoding standards. When you have come cross an .MPG or .MPEG extension, you usually have either MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 video. MPEG-1 video is used on VideoCD (VCD) discs and MPEG-2 video is used on Super VideoCD (SVCD) and DVD discs.
Aurora Blu-ray Player is an all-in-one Mac media player which allows users to Play MPEG/MPG Files on Mac without any difficulty. Besides all types of MPEG/MPG files like MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 Part 2, this MPG Player for Mac also can deal with DV, H.263, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC, HuffYUV, Indeo 3, MJPEG, RealVideo 3&4, Theora, VC-1, VP5, VP6, WMV, etc.

Download and installation

Download free MPEG Player for Mac from Aurora Download Center. Double click the installation file and drag the APP file to the Applications folder. Then launch the program.
Installation

Before Playback

Aurora Blu-ray player is not only an all-functional video player, but also Blu-ray, DVD, Video CD and audio playing software. All codec are built-in, so you don’t need to download third party plugins for playback video.
The only thing you should note is when you playback Blu-rays. As Apple never makes its computer supports the Blu-ray naturally. An external Blu-ray drive is necessary for read the Blu-ray disc. And you should make sure the Blu-ray disc loaded successfully at least once under an Internet Connection environment

Add and Play the MPEG/MPG files on Mac OS X

There are several ways to add the videos to the Player:
1. Drag the MPG/MPEG file you want to play to the player's window or onto its icon in the dock;
2. Right-click the video in Finder and choose "Open with". Then select Aurora Blu-ray Player;
3. Choose "File" option in Main menu, then - "Open File".
Enjoy watching your MPEG videos with Aurora MPEG Player for Mac - Whenever you want to watch Blu-ray movies, HD movies, you got the right tool here.