As we all sadly know, Apple do not themselves provide a Blu-Ray player application for Mac. While I along with many others would like to see such a player, I totally sympathise with Apple regarding the anti-customer DRM etc. required to do this.
As many/most of the formats involved in Blu-Ray have been playable for a long time via open-source, I had felt it was rather surprising so little progress had been made on an open-source player, well it is finally starting to look like some progress is being made in this area. Firstly more of the remaining missing formats are or have been added to software like mplayer and ffmpeg, and there is also progress on a BD player library equivalent to the long established DVD player library. This means rather than having to extract the bare video/audio it would become possible to have a full ISO of a BD and navigate the menus.
While there are other locations, interested parties might want to visit http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html
PS. As apparently Linux on a 2010 Mac mini can send Dolby HD via the HDMI meaning the hardware does support bit-streaming these formats, it might even be possible to bypass Apple’s code and do this in Mac OS X.
Posted a link in the requests section about libbluray a while back so I'd like to second this. :)
+1
BUMPAGE!
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