Only works with the latest OS, not with OSX 10.5
They shouldn't say that "it works on Mac"

I have tried but due to speed or something else I can't seem to keep it downloading without it saying decompression failed

Does not appear to utilize hardware acceleration so it doesn't work for older PCs equipped with newer video cards.

I would have PAID $30 for this, if I had known about it. Thanks guys!! Very nice simple player.

I like .
- Excellent image quality
-Can play all video format that I Posed including flv
-Can play my iTunes music files
I d'ont like
-preference Tab innaccesible . (Updated activated ,then return to the trial version in a few days)
Call-home (wants to connect to the internet) after each closure
(File AutoUpdate is a trojan)

I tried it on my mac pro with a Plextor USB blu-ray drive. It plays DVDs but not blu-rays. Using the same drive on my Win 7 x64 system it works more or less. The video is not smooth but that could be either because of the USB or my processor may not be powerful enough.

it works exelent in my mac macbook pro intel

Thanks

I've only noticed one person (#37 - Jon) who has realized one simple fact. IF you have a Blu-ray player on your desktop or laptop it COMES WITH player software. I DO love GOTD, this program is nothing more then bloatware though..$40 for something that comes with your player? total ripoff, big thumbs down on this one.

I agree, very limited controls,no access t preferences and audio, and very unstable. I don't have Blue-Ray yet, but with a little I could get Blue-Ray formatted folders or iso's.
Evaul: Although still in development stage, needing more sophistication, abilities and stability I see a lot of potential in this prog. Since the license is lifetime, I will just sit on it till the improvements are made. Then I am sure I will be quite please with it.
Pic-Z

I don't know if anyone has pointed this out already, but without proper updates, I don't see how this program will remain a viable option for blu-ray playback. Unless the player accesses the internet everytime to get the proper key to unlock the video content of the blu-ray, there isn't anyway that any blu-rays that are going to be produced beyond this point in time are going to be supported. Another possible alternative is forcing some sort of master from the code of the player software on the blu-ray disk to make it play.

For this reason I don't think I am going to download right now. Please feel free to disagree if you know anything other to what I've commented.

pretty sure if you have a blu ray drive you have blu ray player software. I have a CD drive, will this turn that into a blu ray drive? I kind of am doubtful about that; in light of all the neg remarks, will pass.

#9 #29 #35 - Yeah, too many waste time on thumb up/down and it don´t make any sence.

Thumbs often goes down when you:
- don´t agree with a comment
- don´t understand a word in the comment
- see a technical word

Thumbs only goes up when you:
- have tried the software
- have read a long comment (like Mike´s often is...)
- know the technical terms

more or less...

I would personally like to read everyone's comment / question that comes about today's software. I feel that my time is being wasted by having to read long comments that really could be shortened much more down.

If you have a solution to an encountered ploblem with today's program is it a good idea to write it here.

Think about that: "the fewer words - the more people read your comment !"

Installed fine, tried my Blu-Ray of Xmen:Wolverine, it plays for 5 seconds then stops.

Uninstalled.

@spidge Think you for the info...

This Comment is for the people who are not so Technical about computers and such.

Mac Blue Ray Player I have found to be a Regular Video Player that can also play blue Ray Ripped files or if you have a Blue Ray DVD Rom Drive installed on your PC then you may make this program your default player to play Blue Ray Disks or Regular DVD Disks and Files.

The program is Very Basic with an Easy user Interface and does a great job in playing different files that I tested it with such as AVI,Mpeg,Mp4 etc.

I also tested the player by putting a Blue Ray Disk into my DVD Rom to see if the Player would Virtually Play the disk with no success.

As For a Video Player The Mac Blue Ray Player does well.

Thank you GOTD and Modiac for the Software today!

Ok.. what's wrong with the blueray player software that came on my Dell? It plays BR's with no problems at all so I fail to see why anyone would produce a player for bluerays. I guess it falls into the same situation why anyone would produce an audio player when win media player works as well. Guess we are all at awe with shinny pretty buttons. Now, if it let me play BR's on a non-BR player, now THAT would be something worth downloading... pass but thumbs up for effort.

NEED HELP....Instlaed fine and registered. I have LG Blu-Ray player as my drive (d) After I put my only Blu-Ray disk that I own in the drive the only thing it says is I have 3 folders on disk. Won't play movie. This is a store bought movie and it plays fine on my Samsung Blu-Ray player attached to my tv. Can anyone help me?

I'm glad I read before I downloaded. I thought this would be some sort of conversion from my DVD drive into a blueray drive. I saw GAOTD had a program that would "rip" blueray discs to the hard drive and then I suppose this program would play that file but if I didn't get the ripping software (and would my DVD drive even rip bluray who knows). That said, If I bought a blue ray drive for my computer wouldn't it come with the software to play bluray? The person who said we need a "suite" of programs was right. Thanks for all your help users of GAOTD!

I like this software for its crude feeling and nice interface and of course because today it's free, but to be honest why should someone buy it?
It uses VLC libraries 1.1.10 from VideoLAN Team, Qt C++ libraries from Nokia, a streaming server they called BDStreamServer that it's based on Mongoose, all free. Their contribution consists in putting all together and delivering that for Mac users at a steep price in my opinion.

Does it support multi-channel audio output for blue ray, or is it limited to sterio?

I don't have a BlueRay optical drive in my PC, but if I did I am sure I would have a Blue Ray player installed! I of course have VLC, GOM, Ifranview and several others. But if I wanted to play BlueRay (which I dont) I would have a dedicated lump of hardware, not use my PC. BlueRay came too late and is too expensive. Flash memory is the future.

The last couple of days many people have heavily down-voted a product (as well as early comments about it). This is apparently without cause, going by the lack of comments explaining the negativity. It's probably a common pattern but I'm fairly new here so I've only recently seen it.

I suspect that most of these thumb-downs are not against the product itself but are reflections of how useless the voter thinks the offer is to them as a GOTD freebie.

As such I suggest that GOTD have more voting options, the most obvious being 1) I have this or a similar product, and 2) I have no need of this type of product. I think that these additional options will provide possibly useful information to GOTD but, more importantly, would be fairer to the developers who are offering that day's giveaway, in particular by being less discouraging to newcomers who don't realise that a low rating may not reflect the quality and usefulness of the product in its own right.

I like a "cool looking" GUI (like Windows Vista look), so will pass on this one.

It downloaded and installed fine to my PC. I was hoping it would play blu ray ripped to .iso format. It doesn't seem to be able to. Am I doing something wrong?

Installed & registered fine (Win XP)
Minimalist installation script: asked for installation folder only - no options for Shortcut. No warning message for pre-existing folder.

Loaded and played an mp4 file fine but crashed after 2 file.

Does not save last folder accessed but defaults to installation folder. A real PITA!

This is a good piece of SOFTWARE but, if you wish, it's actually possible to play, rip and convert blu-ray movies for FREE...LOL!


http://www.blurayripper.org/bluraytopc.htm

http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/CD-DVD-Rip-Other-Tools/4Easysoft-Free-Blu-ray-Ripper.shtml

http://www.softpedia.com/get/CD-DVD-Tools/CD-DVD-Rip-Other-Tools/Blu-ray-Disc-Ripper.shtml



and for MAC users...

How To: Play Blu-Ray Movies On A Mac (10 Simple Steps)

http://www.mactrast.com/2011/05/how-to-play-blu-ray-movies-on-a-mac-10-simple-steps/



Enjoy!!

A problem with the subtitles? My language is Bulgarian, using Cyrillic alphabet. The subtitles don't show in Cyrillic and I cannot find a way to fix that. I don't know how encoding works but in other players I never have this problem. The preferences doesn't work too, so I don't see a solution. This player looks to me yet like work in progress.

#9-John, I agree. No thumbs up or down should be allowed without comment. I've stopped looking at them and only read the comments. Thanks to giveaway of the day and the vendors for their efforts. I try most of them and have purchased some.

Works fine on my MacBook! Thank you!

mac OSX does not support blu-rays natively. this essentially means you CANNOT "play" a blu-ray disk by any software in OSX although you can physically hook up an external blu-ray drive to your mac. therefore, there exists NO BLU RAY PLAYBACK IN OSX until apple changes their support.
NOTE: blu-ray playback is possible in mac only using virtual system or windows in bootcamp as long as you have an external blu-ray drive.

No problem at all with either installation or registration on my Vista Home Premium.

I quite like the simple, 'unbloated' interface, and don't perceive it as either "cheap" or "nasty" as some do.

As long as expectations don't exceed the capabilities of a 'mediaplayer', e.g. expecting it to also be an editor/ripper, it doesn't disappoint.

To developer;
Why when I click "Preferences.." nothing happen?

1) I am tempted to make jokes about apple macs , but I will refrain and say from their website it appears Blueray is a bit like VHS and Beta max , or Sky TV boxes and the old BBC version, what ever it was called. From Video tapes and audio tapes , Cds to DVDs to dual layer DVDs , HD DVDs . As most PC users have DVD writing software is bluray going to take over ?

From their why do we need section :
"
The good old HD-DVD format has been officially discontinued now, and Bluray has become the only format you’ll be able to watch your favorite new movie on. Although the DVD format will continue in the secondary market for the classics, but new movies, music albums and video games will only be available in Bluray.
"

2) Re Thumbs up and down. It used to be some group of " foreigners " thought it was fun to vote one way without even downloading the prog . Whether they are still at it I don't know, but I take no notice of the thumbs up or down and go by the comments.

3) Not sure if previous giveaway rippers had Bluray player so I will check my pc and will be interesting to see others comments on here for this version , before I download.

To rizla01....

When you go to the Blu-ray Player website (link posted in GAOTD, the answers are there.

This is what they say..

System Requirements:

Mac: OS X 10.5+, Intel Core2 Duo 2.4GHz processor or higher recommended, 512 MB or higher recommended, 250 MB of free disk space. A internal or external Blu-ray drive.

PC: Windows XP/Vista/7, Intel Core2 Duo 2.4GHz processor or equivalent AMD Athlon™ processor or higher recommended, 512 MB or higher recommended, 250 MB of free disk space. A internal or external Blu-ray drive'

Hope this helps.

Why some of you want a ripping or editing tools? This is player only software to playback video, this is not authoring or editing software. There is difference, like PowerDVD for playback, PowerDirector for video editing and PowerProducer for DVD authoring. So why the developer should include that tools if this is only for video player. If you want all-in-one software you should suggest the developer to build one multimedia software suite.

Be nice if it actually worked. It plays files fine, but with dvds or isos it just shows a gray screen and stops responding.

MAGICAL - can we have more Mac software giveaways please.

Pretty Please.

;-)

#10 Rizla01 - You need Blu-ray hardware (it cost a lot more than DVD-player) to play Blu-ray. DVD is on the level below Blu-ray. But you can use todays software to play DVD´s.

Overly-simplistic player with a terrible interface that would be lacking in features for a freeware program -- no audio controls other than volume, no playlist control, no radio, etc. -- but for a paid program it IS a thumbs-down.

Plus it has that self-promotion button to facebook & twitter. Here's what it volunteers to send

"I was watching '...' with the Mac Blu-ray Player, feel great!"

"Feel great"?? Uh, yeah. Horrible PC interface & it wants to rat me out to the world, not only as to what I'm doing but that I am an illiterate. Not my kind of program.

Do I need to have a blu-ray player on my laptop to use this software?
Thank you!

Run fine on win7-64. Fast and too easy to use. Todays software is only a DVD/Blu-ray player.

- Possible to change background, not sure what the idea is about...
- Leave 28 MB setup-file inside the program folder.
- There´s a lot of plugins (269 moduls) included, so I think most of the Blu-ray world is covered.
- The Help option don´t work, so you have to guess what to do next... or just try everything that can move !
- Run DVD´s as well !

I wouldn´t personaly pay $39.95 for a player in this class. With the option of Ripping and stuff like that could take $15 home to the seller.

@10
You'll need a dedicated blue-ray player. The laser used in DVD-players is different from those used in blue-ray players (hence blue ray laser). It is therefore not possible to virtually convert a normal DVD-player in a blue ray player.
Non the less, you will be able to play a blue ray image file on your computer once loaded in a virtual blue rau player.

This is a very, very, basic player. Under the help tab is Preferences. I clicked, and clicked, and nothing ever happened. Can't even do a play list. I've uninstalled, and will stick with Miro.

rizla 01-certainly looks like you need an internal or external blueray player-see link -http://www.macblurayplayer.com/features.htm

This program requires an Internet connection to authorize decryption, though it should be noted this is apparently only required to start playback.
We tested the PC version of the player with mixed results. The program detected our Blu-ray drive and the film Star Trek flawlessly. Whatever online authorization process is required, it's nearly instant--the movie started within seconds of pressing play. Video quality was just as good as what we've seen with other players such as Cyberlink's PowerDVD.
Options, however, are quite limited. This may or may not be a function of the BD film in question, but the Mac BD player couldn't provide us with a Title menu or an option to select a chapter. Film playback was analogous to what you'd see when playing back a media file. There were no built-in color or video quality controls, though these are arguably well-provided by both the OS and the GPU's control panel. As a full-featured player it leaves something to be desired, but Macgo is currently offering the player as a free download. The company claims it'll do so for the next three months. The PC version we downloaded doesn't seem to have any sort of baked-in timer or countdown mechanism, but the Mac player may be different in this regard.
Macgo describes itself thusly: "Founded in 2005,Macgo Inc has over ten [ten?] years of experience in video conversion and has developed many video conversion tools with advanced technology." The only other program mentioned by name is the Modiac Blu-ray Ripper. The site tells us "Modiac Blu-ray ripper is regarded as the best conversion tool in the world." (In a rather hilarious translation mistake, we found the product described as "Modiac blu-ray ripper , is considered as the primo shift slave in the experience."
Blu-ray Playback Now Available For OS X, Albeit Unofficially
Thursday, July 07, 2011 - by Joel Hruska

Works well, looks a bit like Windows Media Player, has a very basic interface and lacking in features, think I stick with VLC - Thanks anyway.

To some this is going to sound a daft question but do you need a dedicated blu-ray player to play blurays using this software or does this virtually turn a dvd player into a bluray player?

I am sure that I am not the only person unsure of this.
Thanks

to Peter: Yes, use the download link http://files.giveawayoftheday.com/MacBluRayPlayer.zip (included in description)

to Jay: it's just a name. This giveaway provides us with two setups for Mac and Win. I've just installed Win version on my 7 x32. Works well at first glance.