To be honest: All players that I tried had their issues, and most of them asked for 50-100 USD for a simple playback option. I cannot recommend any of them: DVD-Fab, Leawo, AnyMP4, Videobyte, Aieesoft, Macbluerayplayer. In most cases they would not work on 4k/UHD or they would nag with some ads etc.
So I wanted to try my two standards video player software, VLC and IINA - both completely free.
I spent like 2 hours to get VLC and MakeMKV working together, by reading some information here on the forum. But without finding an easy and working solution. Why? Some links seemed to be outdated. And MakeMKV integration for VLC/Handbrake and other apps does not seem to work on macOS Ventura.
But a combination of some good posts here on the forum and some Google results created a functional solution:
(1)
First I set some links from the user "lib" folder to the new MakeMKV background decoding library:
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cd ~
mkdir -p ~/lib
ln -s /Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/lib/libmmbd_new.dylib ~/lib/libmmbd.dylib
ln -s /Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/lib/libmmbd_new.dylib ~/lib/libaacs.dylib
ln -s /Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/lib/libmmbd_new.dylib ~/lib/libbdplus.dylib
(2)
So I added this one link to the general "lib" folder:
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ln -s /Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/lib/libmmbd_new.dylib /usr/local/lib/libaacs.dylib
This worked also for IINA. So I suppose there are more (free) players that will work. Happy to get other alternatives recommended below this post.
Someone please test this..
Robert
NB: Thanks to this post for pointing me into thew right direction: viewtopic.php?f=4&t=16112