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is the blu ray you're trying to play encrypted? if so, apparently the mac version cannot play those at all yet.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf:

libaacs seems to need a fix for Mac.

@seantnichols
are you trying to open the blu ray via the gui? it doesn't work currently. open the terminal and type: this should work.

the only way i got a blu ray to play was to copy the blu ray to hdd and start playback via command line like so: /Applications/VLC.app/Contents/MacOS/VLC bluray:///Users/<username>/BLURAY/ the mac gui seems to mess up the paths. no luck with any other method so far. in a different thread i found thi...