Imposible to play a Blu-ray encoded with Encore with menus on a Mac?

[Ivan Cortazar]

As much as I love Mac, sometimes I get so frustrated by some non sense limitations that they inflict on the users. It's simply stupid.

Here is the problem I have. I made several blu-rays in the past using Adobe Encore and burnt them with Toast. But now I want to check out the content of several of the BDMV folders I created to know which of the versions I want to keep and it seems there is no way to play the Blu-rays within the mac and see the menus. I have found software that would play the video, but I need to see the menus without having to burnt a BR-RW of each and play it on my BR player.

I cannot believe we Mac Users still cannot play back Blu-rays that we author. It makes me furious.

Anybody knows of a software that would play Bluray folders created with Encore?
Thank you.

[Bob Gundu]

Never tried it but this may work:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7...comes-to-os-x/

[Ivan Cortazar]

Thanks Bob for your reply,

I have tried that software but it seems it only finds the video track and plays it. It doesn't display menus. I have done a lot of google research and it seems there is no software for MAC that will allow to play blu-rays with menus. Unbelievable!

Never tried it but this may work:

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7...comes-to-os-x/

[FredrikL]

VLC

[Ivan Cortazar]

Thanks for the info,

I have tried it as well, but can't play back with menus. At least the good thing about VLC is that I can guess how many videos I encoded inside and I can manually open them individually. But the menu won't show up, so stills quite sucks.

I still don't know what;s the big deal about not letting play blu-rays on your mac. Like they think they'd be protecting their itunes video sells so people won't buy blu rays anymore? Just don't get it.

VLC

[Craig W. Bickerstaff]

I guess one would have to email tim cook with an emphasis on authoring to get an answer on it but I doubt it's just to protect iTunes, I suspect they just don't think it's worth writing the software when it looks as though they are slowly phasing out the internal optical drive.
Even Microsoft will apparently be dropping DVD playback with Windows 8.