# Install libbluray with Homebrew

Blu-Ray disc playback library for media players like VLC. Version 1.5.0 via Homebrew; verified from local package data.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:libbluray
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install libbluray
```

  Evidence: provider-native install command

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:libbluray
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 1.5.0
- **Source summary:** Blu-Ray disc playback library for media players like VLC
- **Homepage:** <https://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html>
- **Generated:** 2026-08-03T00:40:33+00:00

## Executables

- bd_info (alias)
- bd_list_titles (alias)
- bd_splice (alias)

## Install behavior

- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-03
- Package-manager version: 1.5.0
## 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

- <https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/libbluray/>
- <https://images.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html>
- <https://jbkempf.com/blog/2025/libbluray-1.4.0/>
- <https://jbkempf.com/blog/Disc-libraries-releases/>
- <https://videolan.videolan.me/libbluray/>


## Security Notes

library-like package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger risk:** green / low
- library-like package without higher-risk signals


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/libbluray.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/libbluray.yml)


## Sources

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