Interstellar 4K UHD Bluray

[BrunoGC13]

Hello everyone! I recently got myself the interstellar 4k uhd bluray. So I wanted to rip it to watch it on my projector in full quality but for some reason makemkv says that it is unable to open the disc. I have a Asus BW16D1HT and tried it once on 3.01MK (i think it was) and after a upgrade on the newest 3.10MK version with makemkv version 1.18.3
So, did anyone else who had this disc encounter the same issue and maybe has a solution to it? I'm still very new to all of this. I also tried ripping Inception (4k UHD Bluray) and that just worked fine and was done after an hour. So it must be something with the disc.
Thanks for helping!

[MrPenguin]

So, did anyone else who had this disc encounter the same issue and maybe has a solution to it? I'm still very new to all of this.

Did MakeMKV create a TGZ dump file called something like MKB20_v61_INTERSTELLAR_????.tgz?

If yes, email it to svq@makemkv.com and then wait patiently. However, you could also upload that same TGZ file into (say) OneDrive or Google Drive and thn reply here with a public download link, because this would allow people to try adding your disk to the public KEYDB.cfg file too.

[BrunoGC13]

So, did anyone else who had this disc encounter the same issue and maybe has a solution to it? I'm still very new to all of this.

Did MakeMKV create a TGZ dump file called something like MKB20_v61_INTERSTELLAR_????.tgz?

If yes, email it to svq@makemkv.com and then wait patiently. However, you could also upload that same TGZ file into (say) OneDrive or Google Drive and thn reply here with a public download link, because this would allow people to try adding your disk to the public KEYDB.cfg file too.

I tried creating one but it always failed. I think it's just because the disc was for so long in the box and just has some dust on it or fingerprints. I'll "wash" the disc tomorrow and see what happens

[MrPenguin]

I tried creating one but it always failed.

Except you don't create a TGZ dump file, MakeMKV does.

Could you at least post some of MakeMKV's log output please? There are many different kinds of "failed" here.

[BrunoGC13]

I tried creating one but it always failed.

Except you don't create a TGZ dump file, MakeMKV does.

Could you at least post some of MakeMKV's log output please? There are many different kinds of "failed" here.

SO makemkv does not create one. I searched for the logs (/root/.MakeMKV/) and there we no logs and no TGZ for some reason. Is it because I'm using makemkvcon , because I'm on linux...? i can't use the GUI because I don't have/want a dekstop environment.

[MrPenguin]

SO makemkv does not create one. I searched for the logs (/root/.MakeMKV/) and there we no logs and no TGZ for some reason. Is it because I'm using makemkvcon , because I'm on linux...? i can't use the GUI because I don't have/want a dekstop environment.

A few points:

• Running as "root" is a Bad Idea.
• Really, running as "root" is a Bad Idea.
• makemkvcon works fine when running as a non-root user, so long as it has write access to your BD/UHD drive's /dev/sgX device node.
• I suspect makemkvcon writes its log messages to Standard Output, i.e. the terminal.
• And finally, running as "root" is still a Bad Idea.

[BrunoGC13]

SO makemkv does not create one. I searched for the logs (/root/.MakeMKV/) and there we no logs and no TGZ for some reason. Is it because I'm using makemkvcon , because I'm on linux...? i can't use the GUI because I don't have/want a dekstop environment.

A few points:

• Running as "root" is a Bad Idea.
• Really, running as "root" is a Bad Idea.
• makemkvcon works fine when running as a non-root user, so long as it has write access to your BD/UHD drive's /dev/sgX device node.
• I suspect makemkvcon writes its log messages to Standard Output, i.e. the terminal.
• And finally, running as "root" is still a Bad Idea.

Thanks for the information! I now have a user called player and I tried the same process as before, still the same error and sadly no logs anywhere. The only thing the terminal says is:
MakeMKV v1.18.3 linux(x64-release) gestartet
Das Öffnen der Disk schlug fehl

(in english it says that the process started and the process of opening the disc failed)
And inside the ~/.MakeMKV of the user it only has the update.conf and the private data archive. I hope this helps

[MrPenguin]

(in english it says that the process started and the process of opening the disc failed)
And inside the ~/.MakeMKV of the user it only has the update.conf and the private data archive. I hope this helps

Is this the only UHD/BD disk you own? Does MakeMKV work for any other disk? Does your /dev/ directory contain any sg devices at all, e.g.

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$ ls -als /dev/sg*

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$ lsscsi -g

[BrunoGC13]

(in english it says that the process started and the process of opening the disc failed)
And inside the ~/.MakeMKV of the user it only has the update.conf and the private data archive. I hope this helps

Is this the only UHD/BD disk you own? Does MakeMKV work for any other disk? Does your /dev/ directory contain any sg devices at all, e.g.

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$ ls -als /dev/sg*

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$ lsscsi -g

No it is not the only. I also successfully ripped Inception in 4k UHD (Bluray) and it worked just fine. And the drive shows up:
[0:0:0:0] disk ATA Samsung SSD 860 1B6Q /dev/sda /dev/sg0
[2:0:0:0] cd/dvd ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.10 /dev/sr0 /dev/sg1
[3:0:0:0] disk ATA INTEL SSDSC2KW25 002C /dev/sdb /dev/sg2

0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 0 24. Feb 09:08 /dev/sg0
0 crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 1 24. Feb 09:08 /dev/sg1
0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 2 24. Feb 09:08 /dev/sg2

So it shouldn't be a problem I think
I guess it is maybe dust that lays on the physical disc itself. Because it was in the box for 2 week because I needed to wait for the drive to arrive. I'll probably clean/wash the drive today and see what happens, because it is mentioned that this bluray is a very sensitive one

[MrPenguin]

No it is not the only. I also successfully ripped Inception in 4k UHD (Bluray) and it worked just fine. And the drive shows up:
[0:0:0:0] disk ATA Samsung SSD 860 1B6Q /dev/sda /dev/sg0
[2:0:0:0] cd/dvd ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.10 /dev/sr0 /dev/sg1
[3:0:0:0] disk ATA INTEL SSDSC2KW25 002C /dev/sdb /dev/sg2

0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 0 24. Feb 09:08 /dev/sg0
0 crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 1 24. Feb 09:08 /dev/sg1
0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 2 24. Feb 09:08 /dev/sg2

You should be fine so long as your "player" user also belongs to the "cdrom" group. Does your "Interstellar" disk even mount as a filesystem so that you can see its files?

[BrunoGC13]

No it is not the only. I also successfully ripped Inception in 4k UHD (Bluray) and it worked just fine. And the drive shows up:
[0:0:0:0] disk ATA Samsung SSD 860 1B6Q /dev/sda /dev/sg0
[2:0:0:0] cd/dvd ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.10 /dev/sr0 /dev/sg1
[3:0:0:0] disk ATA INTEL SSDSC2KW25 002C /dev/sdb /dev/sg2

0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 0 24. Feb 09:08 /dev/sg0
0 crw-rw----+ 1 root cdrom 21, 1 24. Feb 09:08 /dev/sg1
0 crw-rw---- 1 root disk 21, 2 24. Feb 09:08 /dev/sg2

You should be fine so long as your "player" user also belongs to the "cdrom" group. Does your "Interstellar" disk even mount as a filesystem so that you can see its files?

The user belongs to cdrom and it should not be a problem, but trying to mount the disc gives an error and when trying too get its size with blockdev says "No medium found"
Here the output of mounting the filesystem:
mount: /mnt/bluray: fsconfig() failed: /dev/sr0: Can't open blockdev.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

So it probably is the disc itself being not "clean". I'll try to wash it and then try it again

[MrPenguin]

The user belongs to cdrom and it should not be a problem, but trying to mount the disc gives an error and when trying too get its size with blockdev says "No medium found"
Here the output of mounting the filesystem:
mount: /mnt/bluray: fsconfig() failed: /dev/sr0: Can't open blockdev.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

If you cannot even mount a disk then the problem isn't MakeMKV . Basically, some drives just don't "like" some disks, and so it's usually a Good Idea to have more than one UHD/BD drive to use, especially for cases like these.

E.g. I have one drive that refuses to mount one specific disk, no matter how much I clean it. Fortunately, that disk still works fine in my other drives.

[BrunoGC13]

The user belongs to cdrom and it should not be a problem, but trying to mount the disc gives an error and when trying too get its size with blockdev says "No medium found"
Here the output of mounting the filesystem:
mount: /mnt/bluray: fsconfig() failed: /dev/sr0: Can't open blockdev.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

If you cannot even mount a disk then the problem isn't MakeMKV . Basically, some drives just don't "like" some disks, and so it's usually a Good Idea to have more than one UHD/BD drive to use, especially for cases like these.

E.g. I have one drive that refuses to mount one specific disk, no matter how much I clean it. Fortunately, that disk still works fine in my other drives.

Oh ok, I actually have a second UHD friendly drive (external) so I'll try that one and then we'll see

[BrunoGC13]

The user belongs to cdrom and it should not be a problem, but trying to mount the disc gives an error and when trying too get its size with blockdev says "No medium found"
Here the output of mounting the filesystem:
mount: /mnt/bluray: fsconfig() failed: /dev/sr0: Can't open blockdev.
dmesg(1) may have more information after failed mount system call.

If you cannot even mount a disk then the problem isn't MakeMKV . Basically, some drives just don't "like" some disks, and so it's usually a Good Idea to have more than one UHD/BD drive to use, especially for cases like these.

E.g. I have one drive that refuses to mount one specific disk, no matter how much I clean it. Fortunately, that disk still works fine in my other drives.

Oh ok, I actually have a second UHD friendly drive (external) so I'll try that one and then we'll see

I now tried using my asus external UHD friendly drive and it actually came a bit further and created the files in .MakeMKV/ (see google drive link) but it still says failed to open dics at the end.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ff9PCH ... sp=sharing

Here is the console output:
MSG:1005,0,1,"MakeMKV v1.18.3 linux(x64-release) gestartet","%1 gestartet","MakeMKV v1.18.3 linux(x64-release)"
DRV:0,0,999,0,"BD-RE ASUS BW-16D1HT 3.10 KLUP9994013","","/dev/sr0"
DRV:1,2,999,12,"BD-RE HL-DT-ST BD-RE BU40N 1.03 MODO52A0203","INTERSTELLAR","/dev/sr1"
DRV:2,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:3,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:4,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:5,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:6,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:7,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:8,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:9,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:10,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:11,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:12,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:13,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:14,256,999,0,"","",""
DRV:15,256,999,0,"","",""
MSG:1011,0,1,"Using LibreDrive mode (v06.3 id=866A98CB9C4E)","%1","Using LibreDrive mode (v06.3 id=866A98CB9C4E)"
MSG:3007,0,0,"Direkter Zugriffsmodus wird verwendet","Direkter Zugriffsmodus wird verwendet"
MSG:5050,0,2,"Evaluierungsversion. Es verbleiben noch 30 von 30 Tagen.","Evaluierungsversion. Es verbleiben noch %1 von %2 Tagen.","30","30"
MSG:5085,0,0,"Inhalte-Hashtabelle geladen, überprüfe Integrität der M2TS-Dateien.","Inhalte-Hashtabelle geladen, überprüfe Integrität der M2TS-Dateien."
MSG:3338,0,2,"Lade aktuelle HK in /home/player/.MakeMKV ... ","Lade aktuelle %1 in %2 ... ","HK","/home/player/.MakeMKV"
MSG:3339,0,1,"Automatisches Herunterladen von HK ist deaktiviert oder fehlgeschlagen.","Automatisches Herunterladen von %1 ist deaktiviert oder fehlgeschlagen.","HK"
MSG:3332,16908288,2,"AACS Ausgabedatei als file:///home/player/.MakeMKV/MKB20_v61_Interstellar_9A93.tgz gesichert","%1 Ausgabedatei als %2 gesichert","AACS","file:///home/player/.MakeMKV/MKB20_v61_Interstellar_9A93.tgz"
MSG:3303,0,0,"Der Volumenschlüssel für die DVD/Blu-ray ist unbekannt - das Video kann nicht entschlüsselt werden","Der Volumenschlüssel für die DVD/Blu-ray ist unbekannt - das Video kann nicht entschlüsselt werden"
MSG:5010,0,0,"Das Öffnen der Disk schlug fehl ","Das Öffnen der Disk schlug fehl "
TCOUNT:0

[MrPenguin]

I now tried using my asus external UHD friendly drive and it actually came a bit further and created the files in .MakeMKV/ (see google drive link) but it still says failed to open dics at the end.

The fact that MakeMKV has now created a TGZ dump file means that the problem here is likely that MakeMKV just doesn't know your disk's decryption keys. In which case, you need to email your TGZ dump file to svq@makemkv.com. You can also try downloading the latest KEYDB.cfg file, copying it into MakeMKV's data directory (i.e. where MakeMKV also writes its TGZ dump files - /home/player/.MakeMKV in your case), and restarting MakeMKV, in case the public KEYDB database already has an entry for your disk.

Note that since you're using Linux, you must ensure that your KEYDB file is literally named "KEYDB.cfg" and not (say) "keydb.cfg", because Linux file systems are case-sensitive.