Adds support in Tiger's Finder/Disk Utility/Terminal/etc OS X 10.4.8?
or higher support for BluRay discs! These downloads are a bare kernel
Extension file (.kext) without an installer, so one of these has to be
installed manually.
DL #1 is the kext file ver "1.1.6" date Mar 5/2009 taken from Toast
v9.0.5
DL #2 is the kext file ver "1.1.6" date Dec 9/2008 taken from Toast
v8.0.5 - an alternate & older version
Mac OS X >= Leopard 10.5.0+ have their own built-in BluRay support so
this file is mainly relevant to OS X Tiger 10.4 only. This also looks
to be Read-Only, no ability to "burn" BluRay. Burning in Tiger's
Finder/Disk Util goes beyond the scope of just adding a kernel
extension, it'd require an overhaul of numerous modules. Attempts to
burn using Finder usually gave me "illegal request" & "unable to
compute free space" error messages. For burning BluRay in Tiger, I am
gladly using Toast v7.1.3
If you were to use full Toast 8 (or later), it involves downloading &
unzipping 150 Megabytes, inputing a code, has no G3 nor G4-sans-
Altivec support, and is so large and invasive that I find it slows
down my computer. Toast 9+ even moreso. This kext however runs with G3
processors and does not slow-down my (badass gaming rig) computer. I
go with this instead.
I have a general image mounting bug in Tiger (not in this kext, the
bug I have is in Tiger itself) and a way to work around this bug,
which I'll explain in a comment below.
I find this kext to be Essential to Tiger.
To install, unZip the chosen file to your Desktop.
Copy the resulting .kext file to the System/Library/Extensions/ folder
of your boot-volume.
Run Terminal and these two commands in it :
cd /System/Library/Extensions/
sudo chown -R root:wheel RoxioBluRaySupport.kext
Lastly, REBOOT.
Tested also: older versions of this kext. "1.1.3" from Toast v7.1.3
appears all the same to me however at a glance it lacks support for
"HDDVD" discs, recall those. "1.1.6" supports HDDVD. Finally, "1.1.3"
from year 2006 in Toast v7.1.2 doesn't interface with my OS Tiger, its
particular kext fails to hook up with my Tiger of year 2007.
Anyone can grab these kext files from Toasts without actually
installing Toast nor needing their passcodes, just by right/control
clicking the Toast application file and seeking the
Contents/Resources/RoxioBluRaySupport.kext file (bundle, folder,
actually).
Compatibility
Architecture: PPC x86 (Intel:Mac)
This is a kernel extension intended for OS X 10.4 Tiger only.
10.4.8 at the lowest is Toast 8's declared minimum requirement.
