VLC and Blu-ray

Despite what's said online, my experience is it doesn't work.  I am running vlc 3.0.8.  Many of those howto's are just copies from one another.  Maybe they worked at some point but not now not for me.  All of them give you very similar instructions with the database and the dynamic library.  And then towards the end it tries to sell you another software.  Well people need to make a living so I don't really blame them for that.