www.makemkv.com

Thanks, I'll look into it!

This is for the old BDR-208:

Drive Information
OS device name: L:
Manufacturer: PIONEER
Product: BD-RW BDR-208D
Revision: 1.50
Serial number: LIDL002573WL
Firmware date: 2015-09-24
Bus encryption flags: 13
Highest AACS version: 50

LibreDrive Information
Status: Enabled
Drive platform: RS8301 ...

Ok, I get it, but my burners have the official firmwares. I did not flash any custom firmware.
Maybe it is possible but I did not try to, as I don't rip or read UHD discs.

Both my burners are libredrive enabled, as they work with MakeMKV to rip FHD discs. I never tried 4K blurays.
So my question is ...

You mean you need SGX only to read official UHD Blurays?
Ok, I had misunderstood this! As I don't read or rip UHD discs, I didn't pay too much attention to it.

My BDR-208DBK started working again today! I plugged it in, and the tray opened on the first try... Works great with MakeMKV. I'll have to ...

Old post, just wanted to share my experience.
Bought the BDR-S13EBK in early 2025 and it's very nice. I've had Plextors back in the day of CD burning craze and game copying and switched to pioneers since the advent of DVDs. Never been disappointed by pioneer drives.
My BDR-208DBK died yesterday ...

When I try to open a bluray disc, makemkv crashes saying "Failed to open disc"... Then, I cannot access my bluray drive, I have to reboot the computer, and windows 8.1 x64 TAKES AGES to reboot.
Process "makemkvcon64.exe" is stuck, and impossible to kill using the task manager or even Process ...

I have the log here, problem is Operating system blocked access to drive... Needs to be run as admin to access drive. Problem is: I run it as admin already.
Is mkvconv.exe (or something like that...) a "sub-process" of the main exe, and does not inherit it's privileges?...

Debug log started at Sun ...

Hello everyone, and thanks for reading my post here!

My problem:
I can't rip any bluray disc on my Asus RoG laptop, though it works perfectly on my desktop pc with the same external reader.
Asus Laptop:
G551JM-CN105H
Windows 8.1 x64
Geforce GTX860
16 GB Ram
1TB + 24GB SSD

Desktop
i73770K
16GB RAM ...