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Just to confirm, it was my blu ray drive at fault. I bought a cheap and cheerful liteOn Rom only, as I didn't want to spend a lot to find it wasn't that.
Anyway it works perfectly and was pretty much plug and play

Thanks again
I have been looking at LG. They seem to get a fairly good press from most quarters.
I'll do s not of digging before I commit. Thanks for all your help.

Thanks for the heads up. Yes I'm on 1.7.9
Going to look at options for a new bd Rom drive. Perhaps usb so I can test out on Windows as well as Linux.
Any suggestions as to make/model?

I was thinking that it might be the drive itself as well. It's an oldish Sony Vaio that used to have Windows on it. I use it to experiment with Linux these days. I was liking to migrate entirely to Linux but there are some things I can't get Linux to do as well as Windows yet. Anyway, it's the only ...

You shouldn't need anything other than MakeMKV - I use MakeMKV under Ubuntu, and cannot play blu rays through VLC either; but have no problem using MakeMKV to create MKV copies of blu ray disks. Once MakeMKV has been started and you put a blu ray disk in the drive, what output do you see in MakeMKV...

Hi, I have managed to get makemkv installed and running on my Fedora 17 laptop. It reads and rips DVD's ok but I can't get it to read Blu Ray discs. I can't play Blu Ray discs on it at all. Even through VLC. I assumed thisa was because of the drm/encryption and that makemkv would allow me to rip the...

If you are still struggling with this. I have managed to get it going on F17.
I have posted the steps I took here...
http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5928
Hope it helps

The following seems to be successful in installing makemkv on Fedora 17.... yum install gcc gcc-c++ make automake kernel-devel yum install openssl-devel yum install expat-devel yum install qt-devel Then from each of the folders containing the unpacked downloaded rar files.... make -f makefile.linux ...