i'm lost on backing up media. LG BD-RE BH12LS38

[dudewithgames]

so i think i got a older blueray drive as my goal was to back up my legally acquired blue ray media. i followed the linus tech tips video on how to back up the media as dvds are fine no problem, i'm just hitting a brick wall when it comes to blue rays. i did break one of my blue ray drives flashing the filmware as windows will not see the drive anymore, so i got a new one, but i don't think mkv (?) or the drive isn't fully breaking the encription of the blue ray. i tried flashing the firmware, it won't even let me as there's a net error that happens when i do, and it won't display the drive. not sure if it's a windows 11 thing or something. with django unchained, it catches the special features, but not the main film. i wonder if anyone else could have ideas on what to do?

Current profile: BD-ROM
Manufacturer: HL-DT-ST
Product: LG BD-RE BH12LS38
Revision: 1.00
Serial number: K9HB9OE4639
Firmware date: 2011-06-07 12:34:56
Bus encryption flags: 1F
Highest AACS version: 36

LibreDrive Information
Status: Possible, might be supported in future, but not likely soon
Drive platform: RS1013
Firmware version: 1.00-D2

[Billycar11]

your drive is to old to flash dont flash it

[dudewithgames]

ahh so that's noted then, dvds work fine, but is there anything i should also figure out in terms of blue ray or double check to see if i have x setting enabled? or is it a crapshoot?

[Billycar11]

ahh so that's noted then, dvds work fine, but is there anything i should also figure out in terms of blue ray or double check to see if i have x setting enabled? or is it a crapshoot?

dvd and bluray should work as it just no libredrive and no 4K UHD

[dudewithgames]

is libredrive specifcally a 4k UHD thing, or a security thing?

[Billycar11]

is libredrive specifcally a 4k UHD thing, or a security thing?

Both but it removes drive security not adds

[tomty89]

is libredrive specifcally a 4k UHD thing, or a security thing?

LibreDrive is not directly related to 4K UHD. In the broad sense it covers the support for disabling bus encryption (on-the-fly additional layer of encryption done by the drive), which is obviously necessary for obtaining the bus-encryption-free "version" of the data on a disc. AFAIK "bus-encryption-enabled" (BEE) is much more common (if not always) in 4K UHD titles, so LibreDrive is sometimes said to be "necessary" for 4K UHD. (In reality, there are drives that simply can't perform bus encryption, in which case whether a given title is BEE does not matter.)

Historically / Originally LibreDrive refers to the support of "establishing a bypass" for VID retrieval, which allows MakeMKV to calculate the VUK for AACS 1.0 titles (i.e., regular BD) even when the host cert/key used by MakeMKV is revoked in a given drive. For AACS 2.0 titles / 4K UHD the "bypass" / VID is not enough for MakeMKV to come up with the VUK, so to a certain extent LibreDrive is not even a requirement for 4K UHD. (It's just that when the drive can read 4K UHD, it's probably "Libre" anyway -- either an "LG drive" flashed with MK firmware or a "Pioneer drive". Note that there are firmware that is "Libre" but does not support 4K UHD though, such as the Pioneer [2|S]0[8|9] firmware -- even when these drives can be crossflashed to support 4K UHD.)