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Blu-rays are purposely made to be combersome to read and use without explicit permission from the Blu-Ray commission.
Blu-rays aren't DVDs, each release has a unique encryption on it that you either break, or use a program to scan and break for you with public listings of known keys.
VLC would need to ask the Blu-Ray Group to open up their software on how encoding and decoding works, and they never will.
Sony gets a cut for every single Blu-ray, it's why you need to install the app for Xbox when the gaming console can naturally play Blu-ray discs for games. Microsoft doesn't want to fork over more money to it's main competitor, and part of why they backed HD DVD.
Is it VLCs fault? Not really. If they had a lot of money and man hours they could maybe work something out. But DVDs are child's play to figure out compared to Blu-Rays. That's on purpose.
Yeah. The are not going to make blu rays as simple as