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macOS

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brew install libbluray

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overview

Package summary

Blu-Ray disc playback library for media players like VLC

Project links

Homepage

Commands and aliases

bd_info
bd_list_titles
bd_splice

history

Project history and usage

libbluray is VideoLAN's open-source Blu-ray Disc playback library for media players such as VLC and MPlayer. It handles Blu-ray navigation, playlist parsing, menus, and BD-J while deliberately staying separate from DRM-circumvention code.

Project history

VideoLAN describes libbluray as a research project developed by an international team from Doom9, started from scratch without external specifications or copied code. The project page emphasizes portability across GNU/Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, LGPL licensing, and a legal boundary: commercial discs protected by AACS or BD+ require separate projects such as libaacs or libbdplus.

The VideoLAN download archive records release directories beginning with 0.2.1 on 2011-11-30. Jean-Baptiste Kempf's 2011 VideoLAN release post described 0.2.1 as the first usable libbluray release and compared it to libdvdnav for Blu-ray Discs.

Adoption history

libbluray became part of the free multimedia stack because media players could integrate Blu-ray structure and menu support without bundling decryption. VideoLAN's project page names VLC and MPlayer, and package managers distribute it as a dependency for playback applications and media frameworks.

How it is used

Applications link libbluray to read Blu-ray directory structures, interpret playlists, navigate titles, and support Java-based BD-J menus. Users normally experience it through a player such as VLC, mpv, MPlayer, Kodi, or FFmpeg builds rather than by invoking libbluray directly.

Why package nerds care

libbluray is important because it keeps the open-source Blu-ray stack modular: disc navigation and BD-J live here, while AACS and BD+ are separate. That split lets distributions package a legal playback/navigation library even when encrypted commercial-disc playback needs user-provided keys or additional components.

Timeline

2011: VideoLAN download archive lists libbluray 0.2.1 on 2011-11-30.
2011: Jean-Baptiste Kempf describes libbluray 0.2.1 as the first usable release.
2017: VideoLAN archive lists libbluray 1.0.0 on 2017-03-02.
2020: VideoLAN archive lists libbluray 1.2.1 on 2020-10-24.
2025: libbluray 1.4.0 release post describes BD-J, symbol visibility, and Meson build-system work.
2026: VideoLAN archive lists libbluray 1.4.1 on 2026-02-25.

Related projects

VLC, MPlayer, mpv, Kodi, FFmpeg, libaacs, libbdplus, libudfread, libdvdnav, libdvdread, and libdvdcss form the nearby optical-disc and media-playback ecosystem.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: green

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

library-like package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:library-like

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`bd_info`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`bd_list_titles`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.
`bd_splice`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version1.5.0

manager updated

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:libbluray
Version	1.5.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/libbluray.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
curated package history
pkgdb category and tag curation

Install libbluray with Homebrew