1. Vlc Region Free Mac Operating System
2. Vlc Region Free Mac Os

You probably have installed VLC media player on your computer, inserted a Blu-ray disc, clicked on “Media” > “Open Disc” > “Blu-ray” > “Play”, and VLC just failed to load your Blu-ray disc. That is normal. VLC does not pre-installed keys database and AACS dynamic library, so it can only play unprotected Blu-ray disc if you have not configured the necessary files for it.

Jun 12, 2020 On Ubuntu: After installing the VLC libdvdcss2 package on ubuntu you can play your region-locked video in VLC. Then insert your Region locked DVD into your Computer DVD drive and open it with VLC Media Player by choosing Media Open Disc and choose your disk inserted or you can even browse for a region-locked video. Your video will start playing. Manage online streams. The 3.0.16 version of VLC media player for Mac is provided as a free download on our software library. The actual developer of this free software for Mac is VideoLAN non-profit organization. The VLC media player installer is commonly called vlc-2.1.0.dmg, vlc-2.1.2.dmg, vlc-2.1.3.dmg, vlc-2.1.4.dmg or vlc-2.1.5.dmg etc.

• ‎VLC for iOS is a port of the free VLC media player to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. It can play all your movies, shows and music in most formats directly without conversion. It allows file synchronization with Dropbox, GDrive, OneDrive, Box, iCloud Drive, iTunes, direct downloads and through WiFi sh.
• Sep 12, 2006 Whichever approach you take, the situation is a lot better than it was three years ago when your only option for region free on an Apple laptop was VLC, which back in the 1 GHz PowerPC days provided jittery playback in addition to its unstable interface and frequent crashes.
• VLC media player is able to play DVDs from any region, as long as the firmware on the drive is unlocked to region free. How to combine videos in VLC media player? To combine videos together in VLC, you should click Media menu and then choose the Open Multiple Files option.

That is to say, the key to play encrypted Blu-ray disc on VLC is to install two files: keys database and AACS dynamic library. It may sound complicated, it’s much easier than you imagine. I spent about a few minutes downloading and placing the files in the right place, and it began to work. Follow the simple instruction below so you can also play encrypted Blu-ray disc on VLC.

Reference: https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/

Solution for Windows

Step 1. Download VLC Media Player

Download the latest version of VLC on https://www.videolan.org/ and install it on your Windows. The VLC media player must be over version 3.0 to play encrypted Blu-ray discs.

Note: It would be better to note down the installation path, especially if you don’t have VLC installed in the default path. For example, I have installed VLC 64 bit on my 64 bit Windows computer with the default installation path C:Program FilesVideoLANVLC. That is the “VLC directory”. In the next steps, I need to put some files correctly inside.

Step 2. Download Keys Database and AACS Dynamic Library

Go to https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/ to download two files: keys database and AACS dynamic library. Please note that the AACS dynamic library is available in two versions, one for VLC 32 bit and one for VLC 64 bit.

For convenience, here are the direct download links.

Download keys database (VLC 64 & 32 bit): https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/files/KEYDB.cfg

Download AACS dynamic library (VLC 32 bit): https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/files/win32/libaacs.dll

Download AACS dynamic library (VLC 64 bit): https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/files/win64/libaacs.dll

Step 3. Place the Keys Database File

Enter C:ProgramData in the File Explorer address bar, and then create new folder names “aacs” by yourself. After done, put the downloaded keys database file (KEYDB.cfg) in this folder. The file path would be C:ProgramDataaacs.

Step 4. Place the AACS Dynamic Library File

Put the AACS dynamic library file (libaacs.dll) in your VLC directory. The default path would be C:Program FilesVideoLANVLC for Windows 64 bit.

Step 5. Play Blu-ray disc on Windows with VLC

Now you can launch VLC to check if the disc is now playable.

Solution for Mac

Step 1. Install VLC Media Player for Mac

Download the latest VLC media player for Mac on https://www.videolan.org/.

Step 2. Download Keys Database and AACS Dynamic Library

Click on https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/ and download two necessary files: keys database and AACS dynamic library.

The direct download links are placed here.

Download keys database (Mac OS X): https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/files/KEYDB.cfg

Vlc Region Free Mac Operating System

Download AACS dynamic library (Mac OS X): https://vlc-bluray.whoknowsmy.name/files/mac/libaacs.dylib

Step 3. Place the Keys Database File

The keys database file (KEYDB.cfg) should be put in ~/Library/Preferences/aacs/. The “aacs” folder does not exist so you will need to create by yourself: click “Go to Folder”, input ~/Library/Preferences/, new an “aacs” folder, and then drop KEYDB.cfg into this folder.

Step 4. Place the AACS Dynamic Library File

Put the AACS dynamic library file (libaacs.dylib) in your VLC directory. The path is /usr/local/lib/. If it does not exist, you will also need to create it by yourself.

Step 5. Play Blu-ray disc on Mac with VLC

Connect an external Blu-ray drive with your Mac, insert the Blu-ray disc into it, and then open the Blu-ray disc in VLC to enjoy the show.

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If encounter error “No valid processing key found in AACS config file”, that probably means VLC does not have the ability to encrypt this Blu-ray disc. You can have a look at the following alternative software. They are professional Blu-ray players, have the ability to play most of the commercial Blu-ray discs. You don’t need to configure extra files for playing Blu-ray on Windows or Mac.

BlurayVid Blu-ray Player for Windows: https://www.blurayvid.com/blu-ray-player/

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Vlc Region Free Mac Os

• I think it does. Although, it might depend on what kind of encryption the dvds use.
• Well I got home and gave it a go, the ANSWER IS 'No'. It seems to only play my Aussie dvd's, and whenever I put a US dvd in it would say there are missing folders.
  Anyone know of getting around this as I don't want to change the region setting on my dvd player. Are there any third party dvd player apps out there that will help me out?
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  Originally posted by Ebby
  *cough* MacTheRipper *cough*
  
  

  
  

  
  Yeah but no but yeah but no but yeah... thats a bit of a hass. I have a stack of US dvd's, and I don't want to have to rip them all to watch them on my Mac... oh well, guess I'll put a challenge out to some developer, tell them this is what I want and the first one to make a region free dvd player for Mac can name it after themselves.
• The only other way I know of (I though VLC would work too) is to flash your DVD drive firmware with a hacked region free version. I did that on my laptop years ago, but it is hard to find firmware for the latest Macs. It still throws up a warning, but I have infinite changes left.
• VLC CAN BE use it to watch any region code dvd. I use VLC with my iBook G4 800 Mhz and my iMac G5 with no problems with zone 1 and zone 4 dvds. Just try ir. You don't need to flash your drive.
• Everytime I try to use VLC to play US dvd's it gives me errors, I found a little App called NicePLayer which seemed to play a few of my older US dvd's, but not the new ones. And when I try yo use MacTheRipper it gives me 'cannot read blah' errors. I am going to fly over to versionTracker now and get the latest version of Mac The Ripper, see if that works.
  Am really cracking it, I just want to watch my deev's!
• I am so sick of this copy protection crap. When I was in school in the UK, I and some friends brought over some US DVDs, but we also rented and borrowed UK DVDs. At the time, the only viable method of switching back and forth on a regular basis like this was to flash your ROM. I did it, and it worked great, but it voids your drive warranty. However, when I finished school I flashed the ROM back to the official firmware version.
  I just think its a shame that someone who is legally obtaining content has to pay the price to 'protect content against piracy'. Why should the paying customer suffer? Surely they could have come up with a better solution, though I fear the next gen HDDVDs and Blu-Ray Discs are going to be far worse
• Well the high-def players don't have region coding, but a big yes on other nasty technology. From down-resing non preferred outputs, to self-destructing software updates.
  Boycott in progress.
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  Originally posted by Ebby
  Well the high-def players don't have region coding, but a big yes on other nasty technology. From down-resing non preferred outputs, to self-destructing software updates.
  Boycott in progress.
  

  
  

  
  I thought that while the tech was there to downsample on non-HDMI outputs, the movie studios had decided not to do that, at least for the moment.
• Yea, but that can change whenever they want. The only reason it is not in use today is because they want to get you hooked first. How thoughtful of them.
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  Originally posted by Ebby
  Yea, but that can change whenever they want. The only reason it is not in use today is because they want to get you hooked first. How thoughtful of them.
  

  
  

  
  But the way I understand it, that's enabled on-disc. So if you buy the movies today, they will never have that option enabled. It's just the movies that are released and/or manufacturer in the future that will have the restriction. Not that I'm rushing out to buy the players either, though.