LibreDrive outside MakeMKV

[iskander]

Hello,

Despite reading a ton of topics here about LibreDrive, I still haven't quite grasped the details essential for me.

From what I’ve understood so far, it’s a mode of operation for an optical disc drive that, as of now, only one program—MakeMKV—can make use of. Is that correct?

Here’s the practical issue I’m facing: I’d like to play an AACS v81 Blu-ray disc on my Linux machine. By "play," I mean the following process: https://web.archive.org/web/20250923123 ... wsmy.name/.

I’ve already successfully ripped the disc using MakeMKV. I’ve never flashed my drive, so the firmware is stock. Now, MakeMKV reports that the highest AACS version supported by the drive is 81. The disc title doesn’t seem to be present in the publicly available KEYDB file.

This raises two further questions:

1. If I flash the drive to MK firmware now, will it be able to decrypt the disc (i.e., allow my machine to play it)?
2. If not, would flashing to MK firmware before the drive saw the disc have made decryption possible? Does the answer depend on the drive’s highest AACS version? Unfortunately, I didn’t check the highest AACS version before inserting the disc.

[dcoke22]

A drive's highest AACS version is a record of the highest version of AACS that the drive has ever seen. It will change regardless of wether or not the drive's firmware has been flashed to support LibreDrive.

https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=184611#p184611

[MrPenguin]

I’ve already successfully ripped the disc using MakeMKV. I’ve never flashed my drive, so the firmware is stock. Now, MakeMKV reports that the highest AACS version supported by the drive is 81. The disc title doesn’t seem to be present in the publicly available KEYDB file.

Have you tried adding that disk's key to the KEYDB file, since it is currently missing? Since the highest MKB version that your drive has seen is MKBv81, you should be able to find an unrevoked host certificate to allow libaacs to obtain the disk's VID. Has the aacs_info tool already computed the disk's Media Key for you?