Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player User Manual

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

Mac Blu-ray Player

User’s Guide

For Mac OS X

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 1 -

CONTENTS

1. What is Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player ······································ - 1 -

1.1 Main Features ·································································· - 2 -

1.2 System Requirements ······················································ - 2 -

1.3 Support Equipments ························································ - 2 -

1.4 Installing & Registering ···················································· - 2 -

2. Using Mac Blu-ray Player ···················································· - 3 -

2.1 Media Panel ····································································· - 4 -

2.1.1 Preferences ······························································ - 4 -

2.1.2 File ··········································································· - 9 -

2.1.3 Controls ································································· - 10 -

2.1.4 Video ····································································· - 11 -

2.1.5 Audio ····································································· - 11 -

2.1.6 Tools ······································································ - 12 -

2.1.7 Window ································································· - 13 -

2.1.8 Help ······································································· - 16 -

2.2 Open Buttons ································································· - 16 -

2.3 Playback Controls ·························································· - 20 -

3. Frequently Asked Questions ············································· - 21 -

3.1 Before purchase ····························································· - 21 -

3.2 Registration & Update ··················································· - 22 -

3.3 Technical Help ································································ - 22 -

3.4 Payment········································································· - 24 -

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 1 -

Welcome to Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player

Want to play Blu-ray movies? Mac Blu-ray Player makes it easy.

1. What is Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player

Macgo Mac Blu-ray Player is the first Blu-ray player software for Apple Mac, which can
successfully play Blu-ray Disc, Blu-ray Menu, ISO files, and BDMV folder, as well as on iOS
devices. It outputs video at up to 1080p HD quality without loss of data and frame, and
allows full preservation of all audio tracks, subs streams, chapter markers and videos,
along with DTS5.1, you can enjoy fantastic home cinema entertainment. As the best
universal media player in the world, Mac Blu-ray Player can play any format of movie,
video, audio, music and photo. Since it newly upgraded, it can support Blu-ray on Apple
mobile devices, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch via its technical breakthrough - Airx.
Multi-language supported, SHD audiovisual quality, ultrafast speed, user-friendly
interface, and easy-to-handle operation let Mac Blu-ray Player provide the extraordinary
Blu-ray enjoyment to all users.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 2 -

1.1 Main Features

 The first Blu-ray player that can support both Mac & PC system
 Splendid Blu-ray/DVD enjoyment
 Outstanding universal performance and all media formats supported
 Support playback of Blu-ray or DVD movies in ISO image format
 Powerful High-Definition video player and hardware acceleration available
 DTS5.1 guarantees super high quality of output
 Support Blu-ray on iPhone/iPad/iPod touch
 Share movie or video information with friends anywhere and anytime

1.2 System Requirements

Mac Blu-ray Player:

 Mac OS X 10.5+ to 10.10
 Intel Core2 Duo 2.4GHz processor or higher recommended
 512 MB RAM or higher recommended
 250 MB of free disk space.
 An internal or external Blu-ray drive
 USB≥ 2.0 or FireWire≥ 400
 Internet Connection

1.3 Support Equipments

Mac: MacBook Air, MacBook Pro, iMac, Mac mini, Mac Pro (Mac OS 10.5-10.9)

Mobile devices:

 iPhone 3GS, 4, 4S, 5, 5S, 6, 6 Plus
 iPad 1, 2, 3, 4, mini, Air
 iTouch (iOS should be 3 or later)

1.4 Installing & Registering

1.4.1. Installing Mac Blu-ray Player

Step 1: Download Mac Blu-ray Player
Step 2: Click and drag Blu-ray Player.app icon into the Applications folder.
Step 3: Now you can run the Blu-ray player software on your Mac and play a Blu-ray

with it.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 3 -

Note: A watermark will show when you play Blu-ray with the trial version. Once you buy
and register the player, it will disappear.

1.4.2. Registering Mac Blu-ray Player

Step 1: Download Mac Blu-ray Player
Step 2: After buying the Blu-ray Player software from the website, you will receive an

email with a registration code in it.

Step 3: Run Mac Blu-ray Player on your Mac computer. Input your email address and

the registration code into the boxes.

Step 4: Click on the “Register” button, and you will successfully register. Press "OK"

button to continue to play Blu-ray movies on your Mac computer (Mac OS 10.5 - 10.10).

 Now you have successfully registered and can play a Blu-ray movie with it.

2. Using Mac Blu-ray Player

a) Media Panel
b) Open Buttons
c) Playback Controls

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 4 -

2.1 Media Panel

2.1.1 Mac Blu-ray Player: Preferences

 Click to enter into the general panel, where you can set language, theme,

full-screen control panel style, background, snapshot save path

1) Choose the language you want to display in the main interface.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 5 -

2) Choose where you would like to save the snapshots.

 Click to enter into playback panel, where you can make some settings before

playback.

1) Under Behavior, if you tick the first option, the program will automatically run the disc when you

insert one. Choose the second one means if you have already insert a disc, it will automatically run

the disc playback once you launch this App.

2) Under Forward/Backward, you can adjust the time length through when you want to

Forward/Backward the video.The upward button will extend the step length and the downward

button will shorten it.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 6 -

3) Under Playback Memory, if you tick “remember the played position of video files”, the program

will auto play the video you played last time. If you choose the second one, when you run Mac

Blu-ray Player, it will bring up a popup window that reminds you the position of the video you

played last time. And if you don’t want to be reminded, you can “Clear Playback Memory”.

4) Under Miscellaneous, you can see “play/pause” on the screen if you tick the first item “Show OSD”.

Also you can choose “Enable volume adjustment by touchpad” if you need.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 7 -

 Click to enter into video panel, where you can enable Deinterlace, set Aspect

Ratio and choose Hardware Acceleration function.

1) If you have high standard about the video, you can tick “Enable Deinterlace” to improve the clarity.

2) You can set the right aspect ratio here to fit your screen.

3) It can help to lower the CPU usage of your Mac, accelerating Blu-ray playback on Mac by ticking

“Enable hardware acceleration”.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 8 -

 Click to enter into audio panel, where you can set audio output and effects

here.

 You can tick “use S/PDIF when available” (pass through) function when you have own device to

decode audio such as DTS HD / Master.

 Click to enter into subtitle panel, where you can set subtitle display parameters

and text subtitle settings.

 Here you can change subtitle font, size, color and align.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 9 -

 Click to enter into Blu-ray panel, where you can choose playback mode, set

some navigation parameters before Blu-ray playback.

1) There are two playback modes: quick play mode and Blu-ray menu mode. You can change the

playback mode here.

2) Under Navigation, you can select the first item “Show navigation panel before playback if

available” if you want to see the simple menu before play the disc. Also you can uptick "Sort

Titles" to see the whole movie include the special features:

2.1.2 File

 You can open and close files in many ways here. You can open the file in the same

window or in a new one; view recent files; eject disc; or close.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 10 -

2.1.3 Controls

Item

Hotkey

Description

Play

Space

Play media playback

Stop

Space

Pause media playback

Previous

Command+Left

Return to last chapter on the movie disc.

Next

Command+Right

Jumps to next chapter on the movie disc.

Forward

Shift+Command+Right

Backward

Shift+Command+Left

Volume Up

Command+Up

To manually adjust the volume, hover your

mouse over this button and then use the

slider to increase or decrease the volume.

Volume Down

Command+Down

Mute

Click to mute the volume; click again to turn

mute off.

Navigation

Panel

Command+P

Visually display elapsed playback time. Click

along the slider to jump to different

moments in the movie. Click and drag the

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 11 -

slider to use Instant Seek to quickly browse

and find specific scenes within your movie.

Title

Select the title to play.

Chapter

Select the chapter to play.

Fullscreen

Command+F

Stop playback of media.

2.1.4 Video

Item

Hotkey

Description

Half size

Command+1

Set the screen size for media

playback.

Normal size

Command+2

Double size

Command+3

Fit to screen

Command+4

Aspect Ratio

Set the aspect ratio of the

screen

Deinterlace

Select the degree of

deinterlace.

Video Track

Set the video track for media

playback.

Subtitle Track

Select subtitle track for

media playback.

2.1.5 Audio

 Audio track and channel can be selected here and you can choose audio device as well.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 12 -

2.1.6 Tools

 In this chapter, you can enable AirX, Snap the screen (or press Shift+Command+S

simultaneously), check file associations or updates, and make registration.

1) You can set Mac Blu-ray player to your default player by clicking “Check file associations”

2) Then it will come up with a pop up window:

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 13 -

3) You can choose some files’ format which you want to play with Macgo Blu-ray player, then click

“Make Mac Blu-ray player my default player”.

4) Also you can click “check for updates” to check and update to the latest version.

2.1.7 Window

 In this chapter, you can click to show playlist ( or press Shift+Command+P ) and click

again to hide it; make adjustments of brightness, saturation, contrast, gamma and hue;
customize or default background; or minimize the playback window.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 14 -

1) If you want to hide the panel on the right of the screen, please just click “Playlist”, the panel will

disappear.

2) Here you can check the media information of the disc you play.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 15 -

3) Here you can set the brightness, saturation, contrast, gamma and hue under adjustments.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 16 -

2.1.8 Help

1) If you have any question about the software or its playback, you can search for it by clicking Mac

Blu-ray Player help.

2) If you meet the "fail to open/play" error, please tick the debug mode then send the log file to us.

3) If you meet disc decode problem, please tick the Disc sampling mode, and movie sampling mode,

and then send the produced file to us.

4) If the playback is unsmooth, please tick the performance test and then sent the screenshot about

the device I/O speed rate to us.

2.2 Open Buttons

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 17 -

1. How to watch a Blu-ray file with Mac Blu-ray Player?

 Download and install Mac Blu-ray Player on your Mac.

 Click on “Open File” and then select the video file you want to start playing.

 Wait for a bit, and the file will be played for you directly. You can make some

adjustments on the main menu, or you can directly choose “Play” and enjoy your
movie time.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 18 -

2. How to watch a Blu-ray disc with Mac Blu-ray Player?

 Connect the Blu-ray drive. You can buy one in store or from Amazon online. The USB of

the driver should be above 2.0. Then connect the drive to a Mac via a USB connection.

 Download and install Mac Blu-ray Player on your Mac.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 19 -

 Insert your BD into the Blu-ray drive.

 Click on “Open Disc”.

 Wait for a minute for the program to get started. In the next popup window, click on

the disc you have inserted.

 You can set up the playback on the menu according to your preferences, and then

enjoy your movie time.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 20 -

2.3 Playback Controls

Icon

Button

Hotkey

Description

Navigational

slider

Visually display elapsed playback time. Click along

the slider to jump to different moments in the

movie. Click and drag the slider to use Instant

Seek to quickly browse and find specific scenes

within your movie.

Play/Pause

Enter/

Space bar

Play and pause media playback.

Stop

Space

Stop playback of media.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 21 -

Next

Ctrl+Right

Jump to next chapter on the movie disc.

Previous

Ctrl+Left

Return to previous chapter on the movie disc.

Mute/Volume

adjustment

Ctrl+Up

Ctrl+Down

Click to mute the volume; click again to turn mute

off. To manually adjust the volume, hover your

mouse over this button and then use the slider to

increase or decrease the volume.

Full screen

Ctrl+F

Click to toggle full screen mode.

share

Recommend the movie or share the movie's

information or your review to your friends on

Facebook or Twitter.

3. Frequently Asked Questions

3.1 Before purchase

 How can I get the free version product?

Please just click on "Cancel" button when asked to register and you will get our free
version. Mac Blu-ray Player is sold as "try-before-you-buy" software. Free version has
watermark while playing Blu-Ray discs. This functional limitation will disappear after you
purchase the software. Other file formats like MOV, MKV, AVI, FLV, WMV, MP4, MPEG,
RMVB, MP3 are 'watermark free'. NO 30 days time limited, so you have enough time to
verify the program's functionality.

 What’ your license policy?

The Key code/registration code of Macgo Blu-ray player software is lifetime. You don't
have to purchase a new license for the future update.

 How long will it take to get your fast support response?

We recommend you take the following steps to get your problems quickly solved:

1. First please make sure you are using the latest version of our software.

2. Then please check our help Center to see if you can find answers. If you have not found a

proper answer or solution, please contact support with your problem. Please give us as
much detailed information as you can.
Generally, we'll reply to you within 48 hours except for weekends or holidays due to the
time difference. But in most cases you'll get our response in a few hours. Please do
contact us again after 72 hours if you do not get a response from us.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 22 -

3.2 Registration & Update

 How do I register Mac Blu-ray Player?

You can do by the following steps:

1. Run Mac Blu-ray Player, a Registration dialogue will pop up.

2. Enter Email Address and Registration Code and click "Register".

When doing the registration, please make sure that there is no space on the left/right of
you email/code. We recommend you copy/paste your email and code to the
register-window.

 Can I use the registration code on my different computers, such as I have two

Macs/windows?

By our company regulation, one license could only be used on one single computer.
Double systems or multiple users on one computer will be considered as different
computers working. If you want to use on two more computers, please contact us at

[e-mail] and we will give you the purchasing link for the second.

 How many times are there for Macgo registration code activation each year?

There are five times each year for Macgo registration code activation. If registration code
activation is outnumbered, it will present a tip "Registration failed. Your registration code
activation limit is reached." The registration code purchased from our website can only
be used by the purchaser him/her self. Please do not leak or give the registration code to
others.

 I didn’t receive any emails about the registration code after purchasing the software,

where can I find it?

Usually our confirmation email with the registration code is sent by the third party after
you purchasing the software. You can first have a check of your spam box and it may be
blocked by your mailbox. If you still can't find it there, please provide your order number
or purchasing email to contact us at [e-mail].

3.3 Technical Help

 Why does Mac Blu-ray Player need internet connection sometimes?

Many users have such doubts that why Mac Blu-ray Player need to access into Internet
during Blu-ray Disc decryption. We would like to say that this method is the best way to
help all users saving decrypting time and optimizing our service.

Macgo International Limited has signed BD-ROM2 FLLA with Blu-ray Disc Association
(BDA), the group of companies that dedicated to developing and promoting the Blu-ray
Disc format, so our company can legally decrypt the Blu-ray Discs which have adopted
AACS (Advanced Access Content System) to protect the digital content. We need the

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 23 -

internet connection to access our company server decrypting the Blu-ray discs. And One
Blu-ray Disc only need one decrypting process. The users who have the same disc will
not do decryption once again.

By the way, our company is working hard to get rid of the internet connection. You will
see the updates in the future versions.

 Do I need a blu-ray drive to connect to my Mac through USB? Do you have one work

well with your player?

If you want to play blu-ray discs on Mac, then you need a blu-ray drive which can
support blu-ray discs. If your blu-ray disc just ejected by your Mac, then it is highly
possible that your drive doesn't support blu-ray discs. Go to buy the blu-ray drive works
perfectly with our software.

 Why your player just play a part of the movie? Not the extras?

Now we have two playback modes on Mac version: quick play mode and Blu-ray menu
mode:

Under quick play mode, you can do by the following steps to see the whole movie:

1. Mac Blu-ray Player> Preferences> Blu-ray, and then please un-tick "Sort Titles" and try it

again.

2. Under Blu-ray menu mode, you can easily reach the disc menu to choose the special

feature to play.
You can change the play mode under Mac Blu-ray player> preference> Blu-ray> play
mode.

 Why is the Blu-ray films playback unsmooth?

Please send our support team some error screenshots and the "Device I/O speed rate"
by the following steps:

1. Run Mac Blu-ray Player, and tick the "Performance Test" under the "Help" menu.

2. Play the Blu-ray film and wait processing for a couple seconds.

3. Then the "Performance Test" dialogue will pop up, which shows the "Device I/O speed
rate".

4. Snapshot the dialogue and send it to [e-mail].

 What do I do when it pops up the message “fail to open/play the disc”?

Please send the support team a log file by the following steps:

1. Run Mac Bluray Player, tick 'Debug mode' from Help menu.

2. Play the disc/file.

3. Wait a moment; a log file will be created on your Desktop.

4. You will find the log file, please send it to [e-mail].

 How to remove the playlist on the right of the screen?

You can do the below steps to remove the panel:
Mac Blu-ray player> window> click Playlist, the panel will disappear.

Macgo International Limited Mac Blu-ray Player

- 24 -

3.4 Payment

 What is your Refund Policy?

Mac Blu-ray Player Software is provided as trial version for downloading directly from
our Website. By using this 'try-before-you-buy' version, you can make sure that it is
compatible with your computer systems and satisfy all of your requirements before
purchasing the full version.
All sales are final. Once the registration details and download instructions are issued,
they cannot be cancelled. Exceptions to the refund policy are handled on a case-by-case
basis and only granted when emergency or extenuating circumstances exist. For more
detailed information, please visit: http://www.macblurayplayer.com/refund-policy.htm