www.makemkv.com

First of all, @FeRDNYC, thank you for prettying up my years-old hack.

The only things that should be installed or run as root on a box are distro packages, period. I don't (blindly) trust third-party software and I don't feel like auditing it, and neither should you. So sudo is right out. I have a ...

Any reason not to get the Asus BC-12D2HT instead of the recommended BW-16D1HT as a ripping allrounder?

The problem:
The only Bluray drive in the house is in my HTPC (Ubuntu LTS), which is, for various reasons, not very well suited to ripping. I'd like to "export" the drive over the network to another box (Debian testing) and run makemkvcon there.

Tried & failed:
nbd -- drive isn't recognised as an ...

It's possible now, from memory:

1) oss part
Call configure with --prefix=$HOME.
Comment out the call to ldconfig in the Makefile (it would require root).
$ make
$ make install
$ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"

2) closed part
Edit the Makefile to say PREFIX=$HOME instead of ...

This is a known bug in recent versions of libdvdcss (1.4.0, definitely). Basically the cache handling is completely broken.