www.makemkv.com

These Informations were taken using the current version 1.18.3 on Windows 11. The software works without any issues and can read and convert both DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

This is not the case on Linux... MakeMKV was compiled and installed using make, following the installation instructions in this forum. The program installed libmmbd, but the integration does not work. Whilst DVDs can also be played and converted here, the integration with VLC does not work... VLC cannot read Blu-ray discs and freezes... The same thing happens when I try to read a disc with MakeMKV. The only solution here is to use kill -9...

I still have an old Buffalo drive (BRXL-16U3), and with this drive, both VLC and MakeMKV work without any problems with both DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

As both drives work with the same software version and the same discs on Windows, it cannot be down to the drives’ firmware. Clearly, the Linux version of MakeMKV does not work with every drive. This may have something to do with LibreDrive compatibility or with the libmmbd Library... but that doesn’t explain why it works on Windows....

Is there a workaround for this? Or is there something I need to install to make it work with the Pioneer drive and Linux Mint (22.2)?

Jogibaer wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 06, 2026 7:40 am

This is not the case on Linux... MakeMKV was compiled and installed using make, following the installation instructions in this forum. The program installed libmmbd, but the integration does not work. Whilst DVDs can also be played and converted here, the integration with VLC does not work... VLC cannot read Blu-ray discs and freezes... The same thing happens when I try to read a disc with MakeMKV. The only solution here is to use kill -9...

MakeMKV on Linux needs rw access to your BluRay drive's SCSI generic device node.Try this command: Can you see a /dev/sgX device node next to your /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1 device? If not, you'll need to load the "sg" kernel module, and possibly add your user to the "cdrom" group too.