[Partially solved by 1.18.1] Any Fedora / Flatpak users with a working setup?

[mazurek]

Newbie here. Using the Flatpak (freshly updated 2025-04-05) on Fedora 41, and can't figure out how to make it work as of 2025. (I see that I'm in good company in this subforum.)

Reading from a disc drive, `makemkvcon` pegs a CPU to 100% and doesn't seem to make any progress for >10m. Putting random threads under `strace`, I see something one thread waiting to read from stdin and others sleeping / blocked.

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mirto's workaround using `dd` [1] lets me progress past here. Working off a dump of the disc image, I can see MakeMKV working on opening the disc:

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Debug log started at Sun Apr  6 06:16:55 2025 , written by MakeMKV v1.18.0 linux(x64-release)
001005:0000 MakeMKV v1.18.0 linux(x64-release) started
001004:0000 Debug logging enabled, log will be saved as ...
Using 262272KB for read cache.
Network access is ENABLED, CURL version 8.11.1/OpenSSL/3.3.3/1.65.0 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) , proxy server not set.
005042:0000 The program can't find any usable optical drives.
001003:0020 DEBUG: Code 0 at %Z#Az] rem?7b9|b>'9SL&:29393631
003007:0000 Using direct disc access mode
005053:0608 This functionality is shareware. You may evaluate it for 30 days after what you would need to purchase an activation key if you like the functionality. Do you want to start evaluation period now?
005050:0000 Evaluation version, 30 day(s) out of 30 remaining
001003:0020 DEBUG: Code 0 at %Z#Az] rem?7b9|b>'9SL&:29393631
005085:0000 Loaded content hash table, will verify integrity of M2TS files.
DEBUG: Code 2147483648 at iXnQ.\Sv4*O6>m.;:121265499
003310:0000 This disc uses newer version of AACS protection. Please let us know about it by visiting ...

The progress bars don't get too far, though, before the "remaining time" starts increasing monotonically. The timers freeze around <2m, and eventually I get a pop-up about a fatal error.

Feedback and tips very welcome — please, and thank you

[1] viewtopic.php?p=168857#p168857

[mazurek]

I just upgraded to 1.18.1 and the crash is now gone. Instead, I get the clean error readout:

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The volume key is unknown for this disc - video can't be decrypted
DEBUG: Code 0 at !_"3Fn0b[mhvtTs$:213132721
DEBUG: Code 0 at !_"3Fn0b[mhvtTs$:213131341
DEBUG: Code 233 at AqloMjza+ghNcxcH86UroT5z:0
DEBUG: Code 233 at Ei4E3gJ5gN2RFLTRrJ5lNRBX:0
DEBUG: Code 233 at Qns9xDxvQsA0JiCNSSTEHH4U:0
DEBUG: Code 233 at iEiUmoNMimu88kYiETtqfwsE:0
Failed to open disc

This is bad news for me (for this specific disk), but good news overall in that mirto's workaround (dumping the disc to local storage first) should do just fine.