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Jarola
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 Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 1:26 pm Post subject: Swap Optical Drive for BLURay? |
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Anyone swap out their optical drive for a bluray drive? Is this even possible? If so, what drive did you use? I have a 2006 model MM...
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geeji
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I suppose you are interested in commercial Blu-rays playback, not simply Blu-ray burning.
In that case, forget it, the Mac Mini 2006 is too short on CPU power and graphic card. |
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| unless your burning them if your only burning blu-ray you would be ok but watching no way and playing them correctly no way |
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Smithcraft
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Other than with MakeMKV I'm not sure how you would play the media. You would also wanna upgrade the CPU and consider a Broadcom card which would be supported by XBMC and Plex.
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Jarola
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Broadcom card? What is that? What is is for?
I mainly want to rip my BR's to serve them up through out my house to all my apple tvs.
I ordered a sony br drive on ebay. Hopefully it plays nice with makemkv.
| Smithcraft wrote: | Other than with MakeMKV I'm not sure how you would play the media. You would also wanna upgrade the CPU and consider a Broadcom card which would be supported by XBMC and Plex.
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Smithcraft
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The Broadcom card is a card that replaces the wireless card in the mini and provides something along the lines of a graphic co-processor to handle high bit rate information.
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Jarola
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Interesting...I did some research and I like the idea. Do you know if the card will work with the latest version of lion? My early 2006 mac mini id fully upgraded running lion.
Also, if this would work I would have to use a certain player to take advantage of the card?
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| Smithcraft wrote: | The Broadcom card is a card that replaces the wireless card in the mini and provides something along the lines of a graphic co-processor to handle high bit rate information.
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Smithcraft
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The card is not OS dependent, it's support is dependent on the software. As far as I know, and mentioned above, only XBMC and Plex support it.
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| Jarola wrote: | Interesting...I did some research and I like the idea. Do you know if the card will work with the latest version of lion? My early 2006 mac mini id fully upgraded running lion.
Also, if this would work I would have to use a certain player to take advantage of the card?
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VLC also works with the card. It is called crystalhd.
https://code.google.com/p/crystalhd-for-osx/
The best way is to build it. I believe it is tested up to 10.6 (Snow Leopard) |
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