I'm happily using MakeMKV on my laptop running Linux Mint 22.3. I installed it through the PPA and have the beta license key. Laptop has an internal Matshita Blu-ray drive model BD-MLT UJ240AF. It says Bus Encryption flags 1B for what that is worth and Highest AAC version says B2. I also have VLC installed and also previously installed the libbluray2 and libaacs0 libraries and did sudo ln -s libmmbd.so.0 /usr/lib/. It plays Blu-ray disks in VLC just fine and is able to rip Blu-rays without issue.
In contrast, on my Linx Mint 22.3 desktop, I have a 5.25 inch internal Blu-ray player HL-DT-ST model DVDRWBD CH30N (Firmware date: 2115-10-13 14:48). It says Bus encryption flags: 1E in MakeMKV, fwiw. I also have VLC installed as well as the libraries and everything same as above. Blu-rays are not reading or playing in MakeMKV or VLC on this desktop. Not sure what steps I should take to get it working. The below information is also showing in the desktop MakeMKV interface in case that is useful.
LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible, not yet enabled
Drive platform: MT1959
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Blu-ray disks play in MakeMKV on one Linux Mint computer but not the other
Re: Blu-ray disks play in MakeMKV on one Linux Mint computer but not the other
I'm not sure if 1E means the drive does bus encryption (for BEE discs) but if that's the case, most likely you'd need to flash the drive with an MK firmware so that it becomes a LibreDrive, but I have no idea if this model you have can be flashed. With platform being MT1959 there's at least a chance that it can be, I guess.
Or if bus encryption is NOT the problem here: have you forgotten to set the sdf_Stop workaround on your desktop? Supposedly you need it for non-LibreDrive with MakeMKV 1.17.7 or above on Linux.
Or if bus encryption is NOT the problem here: have you forgotten to set the sdf_Stop workaround on your desktop? Supposedly you need it for non-LibreDrive with MakeMKV 1.17.7 or above on Linux.