.nrg on Mac OS X
A word on playing .nrg (nero DVD images only) on OS X:
Rename the file extension .iso, drag the file on to VLC. The image will play as a DVD would. Why someone chose to encode Porco Rosso as a NRG and torrent it, I don’t know. I imagine VLC would play copied VOBs straight from a folder on your desktop in Windows… nice app. Anyway, some DVD-quality Miyazaki is on the agenda tonight.
VLC, btw is only the very best media player (no itunes in terms of categorisation… then again itunes is not itunes anymore) ever. Available for Mac and PC, Linux etc. from their website: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
It plays everything!
You are a frickin’ GENIUS! Thanks!
and I totally agree about VLC, It rules!
I tried your suggestion. Didn’t work at all. VLC played it, but no audio nor video came out.
Rick, you may need to select the appropriate audio track in VLC. Should work.
What is VLC? I tried renaming it .iso, and double clicked, then got an error that it failed to mount citing that it is not recognized.
found the solution. vlc is found here: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html
works great, thanks!
“Why someone chose to encode Porco Rosso as a NRG and torrent it, I don’t know.”
Well because the Nero DVD ripper/burner is a popular application on Windows and it creates this disk image format, Mactard.
Sebhelyesfarku, .nrg is a proprietary format which can only be read by a very few applications. As you pointed out Nero is a very popular app, that’s great. I wonder if that has anything to do with years of inclusion as Crapware with every new Dell? hmm.
Anyway, there’s a great alternate, universal, tried and tested format out there- its called .ISO. Why anyone would encode and share (that’s the point here) a format that is not universally accessible is beyond me, Gitmonger.
Oh, Doesn’t Windows have its own built in .ISO ‘ripper’. Really?! It doesn’t? Holy crap Batman- its 2009. Hey, when you buy Windows 7, 8 and then upgrade to 9 (and after the software patches and driver installations) will you let us know if the world’s most popular operating system has support for this international standard?
First off, <3 to vlc. I agree it is the best player ever!
Secondly, the inclusion of Nero as crapware may be one reason it is popular, however I find nero to be simple and useful. It does everything I need on my windows computer and never gives me problems. Nero are well within their rights to have THEIR program write by default in THEIR format and I hardly think that the lack of built in .iso ripper is Windows’ biggest flaw!
If someone uploads the .nrg instead of using a .iso then it is their lack of common sense that lead them to do it, not a fault with Nero or Windows.