BlueRay drives not working

[dagrichards]

I have been using MakeMkv to backup my blurays disks for many years.

I recently 'upgraded' to a AMD Ryzen 7000 and a MB with a B650 chipset.

an LG drive I have been using since 2016 is no longer able te detect the presence of a disk, pop one in the ui spins a bit and then it greys out saying no disk present. I purchased a new LG drive, same thing. A pioneer I purchased worked once, and no longer does.

Now any disk inserted into the drive says "Disc is being loaded" forever.
I am just trying to do bluray and dvd's My straight DVD play works as expected.

Linux hostname 6.8.0-49-generic #49-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Mon Nov 4 02:06:24 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Release: 24.04
Codename: noble


Drive Information
OS device name: /dev/sr0
Manufacturer: PIONEER
Product: BD-RW BDR-213M
Revision: 1.05
Serial number: [redacted]
Firmware date: 2023-08-01
Bus encryption flags: 1B

LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible, not yet enabled
Drive platform: Pioneer RS9200
Firmware version: ID56

Disc Information
Disc is being loaded

[aarddave]

Having the same issue for two days now. I can rip using the same BD drive on bare metal on Fedora 41 and Debian 12 in some scenarios but MakeMKV gets stuck at the scanning phase in most cases now.

Working Setups:
- Fedora 41, installed via Flatpak on bare metal, version 1.17.8
- Debian 12, installed via apt.benthetechguy.net's apt repo on a VM, version 1.17.7

Non-Working Setups:
- Debian 12, installed via Flatpak on a VM,
- Debian 12, installed via Flatpak on bare metal, version 1.17.8
- Fedora 41, installed via Flatpak on a VM (not a duplicate, I have no idea what the difference between this and the bare metal one is other than the bare metal was originally Fedora 39 with in-place upgrades to 40, then 41)

Drive: Buffalo BRXL-PT6U2V (I've successfully ripped dozens of discs with this drive and used the same disc to test in all scenarios)
Hypervisor: libvirt/qemu

I wonder if this is an issue with version 1.17.8? But if it is, why the heck does it work on the F41 bare metal? It's not a virtualization issue either because I got it to work in a Debian 12 VM with the BenTheTechGuy's apt repo.

I really wish debug logging gave better info so this could be troubleshot better from a user's perspective... I'm a happy paying customer and I'm a linux admin so please ask me anything--I'm very invested in seeing this get resolved.

[dagrichards]

I tried using some older 1.15.4 and 1.16.5 copies I had, same issue.

My paranoid imagination is blaming the motherboard chipset.

[aarddave]

So I got MakeMKV to work again on bare metal AND VM by using 1.17.7, either compiling it myself OR rolling it back with Flatpak.

Code: Select all

$ flatpak remotes --columns=name,url
Name    URL
fedora  oci+https://registry.fedoraproject.org
flathub https://dl.flathub.org/repo/

$ flatpak remote-info --log flathub com.makemkv.MakeMKV
MakeMKV - DVD and Blu-ray to MKV converter and network streamer

        ID: com.makemkv.MakeMKV
       Ref: app/com.makemkv.MakeMKV/x86_64/stable
      Arch: x86_64
    Branch: stable
   Version: 1.17.8
   License: LicenseRef-proprietary AND GPL-2.0 AND LGPL-2.1-only
Collection: org.flathub.Stable
  Download: 94.0 MB
 Installed: 259.2 MB
   Runtime: org.kde.Platform/x86_64/5.15-23.08
       Sdk: org.kde.Sdk/x86_64/5.15-23.08

    Commit: b55330a3ec8fe3f67e8c2db2481ee65ad0680e93d754b086d6dc1145733229d5
    Parent: 2963bc2878de531c17d586e0268bfd890fca3e333c9935bd2e49beed03e63370
   Subject: Update ffmpeg to 7.1 (#98) (cc8de39a)
      Date: 2024-11-05 21:04:35 +0000
   History: 

    Commit: 2963bc2878de531c17d586e0268bfd890fca3e333c9935bd2e49beed03e63370
   Subject: ffmpeg: Downgrade to 4.4.5 to make the FLAC profile work again (#90) (aa7e832d)
      Date: 2024-09-07 21:27:25 +0000

    Commit: e627d134fae512d47b5b79d3cebbf4692649a29537432a8ddfdd46bbeeefd5c3
   Subject: ffmpeg: Update to 7.0.2 (#89) (6898e47a)
      Date: 2024-08-06 00:26:58 +0000

    Commit: d3d6037b2ee08ef64f5b25eba0695313e74f5d1d11041621ce6ead626c78c6f7
   Subject: ffmpeg: Update to 7.0.1 (#88) (ae9eb57b)
      Date: 2024-06-29 12:07:27 +0000

    Commit: ce23b3e362e485c067d049deaabbe58caf89885987cd8e6d37c50f07a56f885a
   Subject: Bump to 1.17.7 (#80) (e513e4c7)
      Date: 2024-06-25 20:52:16 +0000

    Commit: 01cd43d6aed487b21bc714a1541c17076bbf67113b677f5845ec9ffde8cfc988
   Subject: Update to 1.17.6 (#76) (48a5fd23)
      Date: 2024-01-26 22:43:17 +0000

    Commit: 61702a08a821f851b953c6b12c15b7be27b0cdd4dce041a27641bf340e399975
   Subject: Switch to 5.15-23.08 runtime and use OpenSSL 1.1.1 (#64) (146f7c47)
      Date: 2023-11-20 15:29:35 +0000

    Commit: f7039864b882bf9487c699ead06fd793fefe3ab0fa1579a2eb8f90e7b0174aae
   Subject: Update to 1.17.5 (#60) (ae7940bf)
      Date: 2023-09-28 21:00:33 +0000

    Commit: 0f80447b38a881c6d797eb103506ca83ffab6e0b587e16c5e954f9c18755008d
   Subject: Update 1.17.4 (#56) (70f5a0c7)
      Date: 2023-06-12 12:32:42 +0000

$ sudo flatpak update --commit=d3d6037b2ee08ef64f5b25eba0695313e74f5d1d11041621ce6ead626c78c6f7 com.makemkv.MakeMKV

For compiling, it's literally just following the standard compiling instructions from this forum, just with the 1.17.7 instead of 1.17.8. I have a Dockerfile I use to build it in Podman so I don't have a bajillion dev packages dangling off of my machine. If anyone actually wants that, ask and I'll post it.