


However Blu-Rays do also have another type of menu which can be brought up and displayed on top of the still playing movie. As one would expect and hope in general the same disc navigation keys apply to playing Blu-Rays as well. I did also find some options caused VLC to crash. do not work and it seems Control-M is the Mac equivalent. On a related topic the (poor) documentation here says that Shift-M would bring up the disc menu. So, at least for VLC we may now have a workaround but clearly it would be better if the relevant Blu-Ray library was 'fixed' so as not to get stuck in the first place.

Unfortunately the trick of pressing return did not work for them. Again as a guess these maybe using the same open source library for processing Blu-Ray menus. I also more recently have been able to try newer alternative Mac Blu-Ray player software and seen a similar issue with the same titles of them getting stuck at the same point. A guess might be that this is selecting whatever default choice the non-displayed intermediary screen might be showing. However I did discover after upgrading to VLC 3.0.10 although that may have been nothing to do with it that if/when this problem occurs you press the Return key on the Mac this does seem to cause it to continue to the next stage i.e. For Blu-Rays you instead have to do the following. For normal DVDs there is a simple tick-box in the Open Disc dialog but no such option for Blu-Rays. Until now the only option has been to disable use of Blu-Ray menus completely. In at least one case there should be an intermediate screen allowing the user to select which language the Blu-Ray should use. Typically what happens is that VLC loads the disc/ISO/folder plays the intro animation or movie studio logo and then gets stuck before it can display the full BDJava menu. Some Blu-Ray ISOs cause VLC to get stuck when loading the menu.
