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I just went through a similar issue. My WH16NS40 quit reading blurays. I tried several, with no luck. I had a DVD handy, and it read it fine. The last disc I remember successfully ripping, had several country errors that had to be worked around, which isn't normally a problem. The work around always...

Older thread but I thought I would add reasons why I prefer mkv in addition to those already mentioned. I think most of us find the MKV format to be more convenient to work with. You are only storing the disc content / title you want, rather than the entire disc. It is portable to many device types....

I use an ODROID H2+ for my daily driver and it works fine with USB DVD rips. I also have an atomic pi, but have not tried it since it is flaky for me.

Thats what mine reports too. I dont recall its firmware status.

I had that problem today. I created a backup and ripped the title. I will watch it tonight and look for issues in the playback. I will report back tomorrow (hopefully).

I just encountered a bluray today that wouldn't rip. I tried it in 2 different drives and got read errors in both. I tried to create a backup of the entire disk, and for some reason it worked. I was then able to complete the rip. I will watch it tonight to see if it was successful. I cleaned the dis...

It should work. I just discovered my XBox-350 drive, plugged it in and ripped an old HD-DVD copy of the Matrix. Ron is right. Windows doesn't process the encrypted HD-DVD content so you need a third party software to do it.

Answering as a two part question... makeMKV does not alter the bitstream content of the ripped dvd/bluray/UHD (other than you may include/exclude content such as sound tracks, subtitles, videos from the output). Each title from the disc is output to a separate .mkv file with no loss of quality or ch...

and I'm just thankful it all works... I've never done this before, so forgive me... Maybe we can simplify the decision for Mike et al. So what are the issues here? Select a package manager... can it be consistent across all linux platforms? Is the licensing an issue when this is packaged? What other...

+1 for Redbox rentals. Movies are few and far between. They are only in the box for a limited time, then they disappear forever. They do sell off the old titles before they disappear from the box. Rentals are 2.50 per day and the purchases are $10.99

+1 on running from compiled source with no such issue.

I just wanted to provide the promised update. I received the powered USB 3.0 hub and a 2.5Gbe adapter. The hub seems to have resolved the power issue I suspected. I am able to play dvds in KODI on the pi now with my LG WH16NS40. I haven't had time to figure out VLC yet... After recompiling the kerne...

Mike,

I have an old BD-RE WH14NS40/MT1939 drive that I noticed LibreDrive was enabled with the recent update. I want to thank you for your effort to bring this capability to an older drive like this.

Thanks for your continued efforts!

I was planning to use a usb bluray drive. I pulled one from another system, and coupled it with the cheapest powered usb sata adapter I could find. It didn't work. I suspect there is not enough power on the usb3.0 port as I also have a ssd plugged in. The adapter worked fine on my windows 7 PC, so I...

I replied to the other pi thread, but I am a +1 for an armv7 build. I am a registered user with a pi4. My windows 7 machine is on its last leg so I bought this to see if it was a viable desktop. So far, with a 2100 ghz overclock, it seems to be just fine running Raspbian (now Raspberry) OS. I tried ...