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bhazard1 wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 06, 2025 12:14 am

The 43888 seems to no longer be available from retailers, and the price of used ones has skyrocketed.

Where are you from? There are tons of official shops in UK, EU offering Verbatim 43888 IN STOCK...

Reveille wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 29, 2025 9:06 pm

Please note that you must use SDF Tool Flasher v1.3.5 I couldn't get the new flasher to work with this drive.

If it is a BU40N that is not true. I was using the latest 1.3.6 version and BU40N was connected to SATA in my laptop. No problem at all.

VA1DER wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 08, 2025 8:28 pm

They get their hands on something like a BDR-PR1JAME, an essentially useless drive, and they sell them with the note "We have various drives

What exactly is BDR-PR1JAME? Never heard of that.

That is a surprise. Pre-2022 drives are used as-is for UHD ripping, or so it's claimed elsewhere. I always thought the only reason newer drives couldn't be used for UHD was the lack of LibreDrive. Who told you this? Even if it is a pre-2023 Pioneer with LibreDrive enabled, it does not mean it will ...

AACS1.0 discs can still be processed and submitted to the keydb when the disc dump is in the 50-150KB range but this is only possible because the full AACS1.0 MKB_RO.inf file is present within the disc dump. The main reason I asked because I can see people posting separate MKB_RO.inf files on AACS1...

Is MKB_RO.inf link really needed for MKB_v82 1080p standard blu-rays? I refer to my last post where I posted dumps from LibreDrive Pioneer 212-EBK WITHOUT MKB_RO.inf and it worked that way.

Yeah, you can use it to rip CD/DVD/BD except for the newest AACS v82 as it will revoke the drive certificate. This is the main feature of LibreDrive. When enabled, MakeMKV doesn't care about any revoking and allows you to continue using the drive. Even with Pioneer LibreDrive enabled, on regular AA...

I have submitted the files to KeyDB and now it is working! Confirmed using MakeMKV offline just with the key.cfg. I wonder what this means that MakeMKV could block it in the future: For what it is worth your Pioneer 212-EBK is currently producing usable disc dumps for AACS 1.0 (1080p) Blu-ray discs....

Following the discussion here I am posting MKB_v82 standard blu-ray TGZ dump files (Pioneer 212-EBK LibreDrive). It is my first time contributing so I hope I did it right. Three newly released Czech movies on blu-ray by Magicbox: Pane, vy jste vdova! (You Are a Widow, Sir!) Stíny horkého léta (Shado...

I would still recommend contributing your TGZ dump files for ordinary Blu-Ray disks to the public KEYDB, with the possible exception of your drive being a Verbatim 43888 containing a BDR-UD04. It is a 212-EBK (desktop drive, firmware 1.02 / 2022-03-09, LibreDrive Status: Enabled). So you say for st...

Thanks for making it 100% clear to me. Should I email those "MKB_v82" TGZ files from .MakeMKV folder or is it enough when I just click on that link in MakeMKV that says "Please let us know about it by visiting..."? Since I am using Pioneer drive I cannot contribute to public keyd...

OK, so even LibreDrive needs support right? I thought it was supposed to automatically bypass that AACS protection.

So here is the proof: LibreDrive Pioneer, standard blu-ray - not possible to make backup. Should I report this? Drive Information OS device name: E: Current profile: BD-ROM Manufacturer: PIONEER Product: BD-RW BDR-212M Revision: 1.02 Serial number: xxx Firmware date: 2022-03-09 Bus encryption flags:...

Strange. I am going to wait a few days and try again.

One thing I noticed: Nero Burning Rom has the option to enable Defect management for blu-rays. I do not think other software is capable of this. I had to use this for crappy double-layer 50 GB BD-Rs made by Mediarange. The problem was that they recorded OK but failed to read back on layers break. On...