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I'm sorry I have to ask this but I read a couple topics and am still unclear...
So I have a UHD friendly that is supposedly able to rip the discs, it's an ASUS BW-16D1HT.

In the FAQ it says:

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Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:42 am

Which drives work with UHDs?
You need a BDXL-compatible LibreDrive drive, which includes most "official" and all "friendly" UHD drives. Check out the UHD drives subforum and the UHD Drives Guide thread. (Originally, the drive with the most reported success was the ASUS BW-16D1HT.)

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preserve wrote: ↑

Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:42 am

How does MakeMKV work with UHDs?
MakeMKV uses Hashed Keys. Originally supplied via a download, MakeMKV now updates automatically. Go to View / Preferences / General and ensure that "Enable Internet access" is checked.

Which sounds to me like nothing more is required. In MakeMKV's Info section it says But I'm not entirely sure whether that still needs to be done manually or what.

From what I can tell LibreDrive is supposed to "just work" automagically, but one of the linked threads at least sounds like I still need to flash manually.

I'm asking because when I insert a UHD BD (tried Inception and Tenet), the status just goes from "Disc is being loaded" to "No disc inserted" which sounds like it can't read the disc (and in fact makemkvcon shows "Failed to open disc"). If it's an issue with the firmware it would be nice if MakeMKV said as much 😅

But even if the firmware were patched, I'm still not sure how LibreDrive works. Do I need to do anything for that manually or is that handled automatically when a patched firmware is detected?

I seem to remember that when UHD ripping was first introduced years ago, it didn't require flashing firmwares or anything (but it was more complicated with getting the keys manually and whatnot). So I guess that has changed?