

And while Plex charges for its live TV and DVR features, you can use it to store and stream movies for free, minus a one-time $5 unlock fee for its iOS apps.

You can always convert your movies into MP4 files and pop them into iTunes or VLC. dmg file before you install it – a way to make sure that no sneaky hackers have replaced your legit copy with a nasty lookalike, which briefly happened to Handbrake (opens in new tab) in 2017. Just make sure you verify the checksum (opens in new tab) of Handbrake's.

To squeeze those massive files into svelter shape, you'll need this free, popular Mac app. For a deeper dive into MakeMKV, consult this Macworld article. (Remember, use those awesome powers only for good.) You'll need a new beta key for MakeMKV roughly every two months, which you can find here (opens in new tab). This free-while-in-beta program shrugs off Blu-rays' copy protection and bundles their contents into handy, if hefty, files. But The Wirecutter has a good roundup of more recent drives that cost less and may perform even better. I used an older Samsung SE-506 (opens in new tab), which sells for around $100 and worked great. I guess I need to look into that.Īnyway, there's got to be another way to determine the correct playlist in these scenarios where they all appear to be the same.To move your movies from disc to disk, you'll need: An external Blu-ray drive I know with standard blu-ray discs, you can play the movie in AnyDVD or another app, and Process Monitor will show you the correct segment map, but 1) there are s till 2 playlists that use the same segment map, and 2) Windows will not play 4K discs without SGX which is a deprecated Intel CPU function - and my one system is AMD, and my other system is Sandy Bridge, which is probably too old to support SGX, but I'm not sure. I don't have a reason to choose one over the other, and I can't tell which is the correct playlist, or the one that plays when you play the movie in a standalone player. Thus it seems like all 4 playlists are the same. I played 339 and 340 M2TS, and they are both 2-second black screen, and 336 and 338 are both the credits, but I can't see any difference.

There are 2 playlists that are identical in every way according to the info shown by MakeMKV, including all the audio and subtitle tracks underneath it, and there is another set of 2 playlists that are identical to each other, but differ from the first 2 in the segment map, "339,1,336" vs "340,1,338". All the responses are great, but don't really apply to this disc.
