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Libredrive offers advantages for those ripping standard blu-rays later than MKBv81 (2025 and later). Makemkv currently doesn't have a host certificate that works with discs later than MKBv81. Libredrive can bypass bus encryption and reveal the VID. When combined with the public MKBv82 device keys ...

I highly recommend reading the Ultimate UHD Drives Flashing Guide.
https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19634

1) As long as the external enclosure or USB>SATA converter is recommended by the guide I mentioned above, it should be perfectly fine for ripping and flashing the drive.
2 ...

LG and Pioneer are no longer manufacturing optical media drives for PC's.

The BU40N is one of the more inexpensive drives available that is capable of ripping blu-rays and UHD's with libredrive firmware.

There are a few tradeoffs with the drive.

1) It's a slim drive. Slim drives are known to ...

Disc type: UHD
Disc ID: 0x360a18248e3f80e3d9ee8b097e8c92d40d577c66
Disc dump filename: MKB20_v76_DOUBLE_INDEMNITY_F117.tgz
Drive: Asus BC-12D2HT
Drive firmware: LG WH16NS60 1.02MK
LibreDrive status: Enabled
Did you sync the public keydb within the last 15 minutes? Yes
Have you verified that ...

I have a Asus BC-12D2HT that I flashed with the WH16NS60 1.02MK to get rid of the sleep bug. But I learned that the LG firmware has a feature called "jamless playback" that interferes with disc error recovery when using ddrescue on linux. I tried to flash back to the Asus BC-12D2HT 3.11MK firmware ...

@keydb_helper

Is it okay to submit discs that already are in the database, but only have the UK and no VUK?

Face/Off from Kino Lorber

Older disc, but the current keydb.cfg doesn't have this disc id.

Disk Type: UHD
Disc ID: 0xE8D5F4C3857FB01B2E4ADD4479623FD7E6AE8220
Disc Dump Filename: MKB20_v77_Face_Off_BF55.tgz
Drive: ASUS BC-12D2HT
Firmware: LG WH16NS60 1.02MK
Libredrive Status: Enabled
Did you sync ...