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Ordered a slim drive and it came in yesterday. Set it up and ripped a couple of uhd blu-rays from out of box and no probs. Dealing with Alex was easy and a pleasure. You won't go wrong.

There was a change to the library names with newer versions which will break tour previous configuration... The makemkv library names are now libmmbd_new.dylib and libmmbd_old.dylib, you choose which one you want to use...

AFAICT, the integration stuff in makemkv doesn't work in mojave.... must be only a catalina thing.... You'd have to follow https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=7010 to make playing/opening blu ray disks in vlc work. And as @GHender3 said, Mount the disc, File, Open Disc, and Open. Bear ...

What macOs are you using?

Bluray drives:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/optical-drives/superdrives

Software:
https://download.videolan.org/libdvdcss/1.4.2/macosx/
http://makemkv.com/download/
https://handbrake.fr/rotation.php?file=HandBrake-1.2.0.dmg&old=true

If you want to be able to rip & encode to *.mp4 or *.m4v at ...

Ah... So it looks like HB 1.2.0 maybe the last version of HB to work in catalina the way it works in mojave/earlier. I got the same result you did with 1.2.0... I didn't try with 1.2.1...

@swsmith1971 - I made a catalina vm and catalina does something funky.... using ~/lib won't work, so I tried sticking the links in /usr/local/lib where videolan installs libdvdcss... that doesn't work either (libdvdcss works fine though). I have no idea what you have to do to make the links to be ...

Since you're using makemkv 1.15.1 and handbrake 1.2, open a terminal (Terminal.app) and copy the following, line by line...


mkdir ~/lib
ln -s /Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/lib/libmmbd_new.dylib ~/lib/libaacs.dylib
ln -s /Applications/MakeMKV.app/Contents/lib/libmmbd_new.dylib ~/lib/libbdplus ...

The libmmbd (from unsigned, unsandboxed, unhardened and otherwise dangerous MakeMKV) still can be used by sandboxed/hardened applications, if it is copied to a proper location. VLC is an example how it works. So, at least in theory, this should work.


AFAIK, placing the aliases in /usr/local/lib ...