www.makemkv.com

Hey there.

Since a while I'm seeing that some makemkvcon process(es) get started by merely inserting a disc without actually starting makemkv or doing anything else.

This is actually a bit annoying, as the process causes some ongoing disc activity and in particular it doesn't seem to stop (or I was never patient enough).
I cannot even kill this, I mean I can kill the makemkvcon process but it becomes a zombie and the disc activity continues until I unplug the drive.

It seems the offender which starts makemkvcon is gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor. Looking at this it's linked against libbluray.so.2, so I presume it's libmmbd which somehow comes into play.

Any ideas how one prevents this?

Thanks,
Jemima.

It seems libbluray has no env var or so that can be used to really disable loading of libmmbd, so the "best" solution I found was the following systemd drop-in config, which simply denies gvfs-udisks2-volume-monitor access to libmmbd and makemkvcon (the latter would probably not be needed).