makeMKV 1.8.2 not working on Debian 13

[ralf28]

Hello together,
I recently walked away from Windows on all my computers also on my multimedia/home theater PC. However, I would still like to be able to watch the Blu-ray discs I have purchased. For that purpose, I installed makeMKV. However, it does not work. At first, I thought the reason might be my rather old Blu-ray drive (LG BH10LS30). So I bought an Asus BW-16D1HT, but the result is exactly the same, even with DVDs.
As already mentioned, my motivation for makeMKV is only to watch the Blu-ray discs that I have purchased on a Linux PC maybe there is another way instead of using makeMKV to do this, this would also be an option for me.

What happens is, I insert the disc and it starts spinning.
MakeMKV says “Loading...” “Please wait,” but nothing else happens, even after minutes.
I was able to get a debug log from it with makemkvcon info disc:0 --debug

Debug log started at Fri Jan 2 14:30:53 2026 , written by MakeMKV v1.18.2 linux(x64-release)
001005:0000 MakeMKV v1.18.2 linux(x64-release) started
001004:0000 Debug recording enabled. Recording is saved as file:///home/htpc/MakeMKV_log.txt
Using 262272KB for read cache.
Network access is ENABLED, CURL version 8.14.1/OpenSSL/3.5.4/1.64.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) , proxy server not set.
001003:0020 DEBUG: Code 0 at [$&!cPHsNoNC,vJT%<05$ :29393631
No SDF v0a4: ASUS_BW-16D1HT_3.11_212012011759_KLZP84F2253
SDF auto v0a4: ASUS_BW-16D1HT_3.11_212012011759_KLZP84F2253
and here it stops
I have already downloaded sdf.bin, which I have read about several times as a tip, but unfortunately nothing has helped so far.

I am using a fairly new installation of Linux Debian 13, do I need to configure something on my Linux installation. I already spent some time for investigation but couldn't find a solution yet.

Can anyone here help me, please?

[16442496]

It's a feature on MakeMKV. (MakeMKV v1.17.7 (15.5.2024)

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