ASUS SBW-06D5H-U (Pioneer BDR-US03, RS8511) — LibreDrive Enabled but AACS host certificate revoked

[Paetli]

Drive reports LibreDrive as working, but every Blu-ray fails AACS authentication and ends with “Can’t read AACS VID from disc — most likely current AACS host certificate is revoked by your drive”.

Drive info:

Product: ASUS SBW-06D5H-U, Revision E102
Firmware date: 2023-04-20
LibreDrive Status: Enabled
Drive platform: RS8511
Firmware name: PIONEER BDR-US03
Firmware type: Original (unpatched)
Firmware version: E102/ID26
DVD all regions: Yes, BD raw data read: Yes, BD raw metadata read: Yes

MakeMKV v2.0.0, tested on both Windows 11 and Linux (Docker container on Unraid) — identical behaviour on both. Hundreds of COPY PROTECTION KEY EXCHANGE FAILURE — KEY NOT ESTABLISHED before it gives up and downloads a new HK.

My question: if LibreDrive is enabled and BD raw data read is supported, why is MakeMKV falling back to AACS host authentication at all? Is this a known limitation of the RS8511/BDR-US03 platform, and would patched firmware resolve it?

[Yethidran]

guess its best to revert back to MakeMKV version 1.84, instead of using MakeMKV version 2.00. (Marty has said pretty often that version 2.00 is very buggy.)

[Yethidran]

i also wonder if you have flashed your drive to be "UHD Capable"?
quite a few people in this forum already can give you "Totally Free Firmware's"
only one still charges for firmware to this day.