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Ah right. Now that I recall I once wanted to dump whatever can be dumped from my Pioneer drive, and IIRC it did stall.

I suppose the firmware dumping / speed setting bits are not the same bits that are involved in "activating" LibreDrive / disabling bus encryption then...

P.S. It's really weird ...

There's no special flasher for OmniDrive firmware. You don't need one.

"SDFTool Flasher", aka the GUI wrapper of sdftool is Windows only. (Maybe it can be made to work through wine but IIRC it's a .NET program so it could be a bit of a hassle -- my wine knowledge is old though.) I think you can use ...

Better post the drive info as text, as the images seem to have problem showing up (at least for me).

I don't see any image in your post though. Perhaps you need to upload it somewhere else and paste a link.

And at the end of the day, is your "screen" 16:9? And have you tested with movie that is 16:9 itself (and that the DVD is NOT 4:3 letterbox)?

P.S. I haven't remuxed DVD with MakeMKV for quite ...

I bought a BP50NB40 NB50 based on this guide and it doesn't look like it'll work, SDFtool Flasher gives me an error that it doesn't have the correct platform (MT1959).

Are there recent recommendations for drives that are available in the US and known to work? I took a couple weeks to order this ...

Btw you probably don't need to bother getting 1.17.7 or older. The issue with newer versions affect only non-LibreDrive (perhaps even just some). AFAIK it's nothing "dangerous" anyway.

Well not really sure about macOS. Maybe where makemkvcon resides (when installed) over there is not necessarily a part of PATH. Either way my point was with ./ it's a different instruction and what it does / would happen depends on where you have cd into.

Actually, can you check "log debug messages" in preference, and then post the content of ~/MakeMKV_log.txt (NOT log messages in the MakeMKV window) as code blocks from both the desktop and laptop after attempting to open a disc in MakeMKV (NOT VLC)? (If it stalls at some stage before you can even ...

Can anyone help me? I'm on 1.18.3 on MacOS as well. I can't even get the disk identifier to run. It's telling me "command not found". Did anyone run into this issue?


Probably because you were erroneously running ./makemkvcon instead of makemkvcon? The guide above is workaround for a problem ...

Well what's the aspect ratio / resolution of your screen? As far as I can see here, the movie itself is 2.35:1 and most DVD releases of it seem to be 16:9 (the "widest" you get for DVD or BD) letterbox . In other words, the frames / images themselves carry black bar at the top and the bottom, and ...

Coopervid wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2026 9:05 am You could try to flash it to RS8591 1.10. I think this firmware is supported. Let me know.

I feel like the key is whether BDRFlash has whitelisted RS8590 -> RS8591 (and whether the firmware and kernel are available anywhere).

Hmm that's unfortunate. Most likely the firmware can be supported as LibreDrive but mike hasn't whitelisted it or so.

For SBW, while only the RS8510 variant of 1.03 and 1.10 are listed as supported in the LibreDrive thread, in reality at least the RS8511 variant of 1.10 is also supported (as per ...

mkvtoolnix?

By speaking of RS8950 ...... :mrgreen:

My brother got a ASUS SBC with this drive inside. It had firmware 1.03 with enabled LibreDrive.

He's a little bit an update freak and flashed to the last firmware 1.10. Now LibreDrive is disabled and Blu-ray ripping is possible only up to 2.1x. :roll:

In ...

I'm not sure if 1E means the drive does bus encryption (for BEE discs) but if that's the case, most likely you'd need to flash the drive with an MK firmware so that it becomes a LibreDrive, but I have no idea if this model you have can be flashed. With platform being MT1959 there's at least a chance ...