MakeMKV and VLC just won't do BluRay at all.

[StevenSwift]

I use OpenSuse Tumbleweed, and it just won't do any BluRay playback or ripping whatsoever. However, drive is seen as a Blu Ray drive, sees all the content of a Blu Ray film disc and all the folder structure and so on. Tried to use ChatGPT to get to the bottom of the problem and I think it's now hallucinating and throwing up bullshit solutions.
Drive is a Hitachi LG BU40N 9.5mm drive installed Into a Dell Lattitude E5540.
Tellingly, there's broken links on OpenSuse's pages that lead to nowhere.,
I may be forced to bin OpenSuse Tumbleweed, which is a shame as I've enjoyed this distro until this happened. Then again, I'm reliably lead to believe that BluRay support for Linux is a dumpster fire.
VLC doesn't work, MakeMKV sees and understand there's a drive there, but does nothing after that point. It's starting to piss me off now.

[MrPenguin]

I use OpenSuse Tumbleweed, and it just won't do any BluRay playback or ripping whatsoever. However, drive is seen as a Blu Ray drive, sees all the content of a Blu Ray film disc and all the folder structure and so on...
Drive is a Hitachi LG BU40N 9.5mm drive installed Into a Dell Lattitude E5540.

You need to have "write" access to your drive's /dev/sg? device node. Use "lsscsi -g" to discover which sg device node corresponds to your BluRay drive.