6X Blu-ray USB 2.0 SATA Slim Optical Drive Solution. Mac / PC / USB 2.0 & 1.1. Add bus powered, portable, Plug and Play CD and DVD burning with Blu-ray disc read capability to any USB equipped computer. The casing is pretty flimsy, but it works well enough if you don't abuse it. It works well with Mac Blu-ray Player software (not free). I've been looking in vain for a USB-C Blu-Ray drive for my tMBP. Does anyone here have any recommendations? Recommendations for an external USB-C BluRay drive? Discussion in 'Mac Accessories' started by hawkeye_a, Jun 4. UGREEN USB C to Mini USB Cable, Type C to Mini 5pin Cord, USB 2.0 Type C (Thunderbolt 3 Compatible) to Mini B Data.
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Portable BR writers are either 6x or 8x, which means a max theoretical speed of n X 4.5 MB/s. This equates to 27 MB/s and 36 MB/s respectively. USB has a real world speed of around 35 to 40 MB/s.
Thereofore USB 2 is good enough for these drives. Some desktop BR drives are 12x, which is a theoretical speed of 54 MB/s. This is a bit more than USB 2 can handle. but The difference in real world speed in using a 12x drive via USB 2 vs 3 is not worth the price difference in my opinion. Not sure I agree with that, but I'm not positive. There are a couple of external 12x-14x write-speed Blu-Ray players that are 16x DVD (and 40x-48x CD) that look interesting that might take advantage of USB 3.0 speeds.
Has anyone any experience with either of these drives? LG - 16x External USB 3.0/2.0 Blu-ray Disc Double-Layer DVD±RW/CD-RW Drive ($125 @ BestBuy) ASUS 12x Blu-Ray Writer with USB 3.0 ($120 @ B&H) (LaCie also sells a USB 3.0 Blu-Ray drive but it's only 6x write-speed, which means USB 3.0 doesn't really help.) Or should I just get a $99 USB 2.0 external BD drive from OWC/MacSales.com and be done with it? Or should I just get a $99 USB 2.0 external BD drive from OWC/MacSales.com and be done with it? Here's a reasonably-well-reviewed, bus-powered USB 2.0 external BD drive. It's been sitting my 'buy later' cart forever, while I wait for someone from Ars to give me a testimonial I got that one when it was $45 one weekend. Works great with MakeMKV.
I've only found one movie it wouldn't rip. The latest Muppet movie. I rip to MKV and then convert it to TV3 format via Handbreak.
Mine just arrived. I'm ripping How To Train Your Dragon right now.
Estimated time remaining: 7 hours. So USB is not the bottleneck (ripping on an old Core 2 Duo iMac).
I'm ripping How To Train Your Dragon right now. Estimated time remaining: 7 hours. So USB is not the bottleneck (ripping on an old Core 2 Duo iMac) Well the CPU load was really low, so I checked out System Profiler, and it looks like my drive is connected at USB 1 speeds: All the ports on my iMac7,1 are 2.0, so something must be forcing this downward. I'm using the two really short cables that came with this drive, and they're both plugged directly into the ports on the back of the iMac. Any other suggestions?
I plugged it back into my old iMac, and this time it connected properly at full USB 2.0 speeds, so I ripped The Sound of Music in less than an hour. Encoding it in Handbrake is taking 22 hours.
So yes, I think I'd endorse the drive. Hard to beat the price. Would I want a faster drive? Yes, but I'm not sure how much I'd pay for the speed. I have a few dozen discs to rip, not hundreds, and I tend to click Rip and then walk away for hours at a time, so a faster drive wouldn't actually give me greater throughput.
Especially with the massive bottleneck at re-compressing. I'm recompressing Dragon my 2011 MBP, and it's only taking 2.5 hours over here.
I tend to rip the ray discs to a drive and then queue up overnight in Handbrake but I have a two computer rip flow AnyDVD on a PC (Blu-Ray) drive - drive on the Mac. Fire up handbrake and load the queue up and press go. Theoretical max utilization on my MacPro is 2400% but that's with hyper threading, Handbrake tends to loaf along at 800% - 850% of CPU utilization. I also encode to a dedicated SSD so I don't think there is actually a hardware bottleneck on mine, I think it's a software limitation. I can get my CPU to say around 2200% utilization if I'm running a Final Cut encode and a Handbrake encode at the same time though.
So, what program do you use to actually Play BR's on Mac? I'm guessing the native DVD player on OS-X doesn't support BR's. Ehh, so-so as a player and you don't get the real Title Menu's - you just get a generic menu that asks what Title you want to play. Sometimes it's a little hard to figure out which one is the one you want to see. Expensive too, but 33% off today. I tend to encode (and yes I have to figure out hte appropriate title) and use MPlayerX - much better experience IMO.
You only get to play the title you encoded though. So, what program do you use to actually Play BR's on Mac? I'm guessing the native DVD player on OS-X doesn't support BR's. VLC Blu-ray: and if I want to rip and encode for the iPad and AppleTV: MakeMKV and Handbrake. Before I'd found that site VLC would fail with a 'could not find aacs lib' error. I tried installing both of those files, and now it fails with a 'could not find BD+ lib' error.
Googling 'vlc bd+' led me to this, which says that they're waiting for the VLC devs to find a solution. In December 2012 that thread was, though you have to. For that price I'll probably just play my recompressed rips. So yes, I think I'd endorse the drive. Hard to beat the price.
Minor PSA, here. I tried booting my iMac into XP over the weekend, and it was locking up very early in the boot cycle. If I chose my Windows partition from the Startup Disk control panel and clicked Restart, I'd get the startup chime and then an endless grey screen.
If I booted with the Option key held down, my Windows partition would show up as an option, but clicking it would cause an immediate mouse freeze. Unplugging this BD drive fixed the problem. I didn't try plugging it back in after a successful boot, though I may try that tonight if I remember.