Blu-Ray Drive lockout

[crhrwc]

As I said before, my LG WH16NS40 drive is locked out, won't read any BD's after I tried reading a disc with the v68 key and makemkv v1.12.2.

So I moved the drive to another system and installed makemkv v1.14.2 and tried to read the v68 disc and it failed with the same "ILLEGAL REQUEST:COPY PROTECTION KEY EXCHANGE FAILURE".

Here's the odd part. On the second system the drive IS NOT locked out, I can read other BD discs fine. Both systems show "Highest AACS version: 68". When I move the drive back to the computer I have makemkv v1.12.2 it's still locked out, can't read any BD's.

So is the computer or the makemkv version? I thought "locked out" meant there was no way to get the drive to work again?

The system the drive does not work on is "Lenovo ThinkCentre M93p - MT - Core i7 4770" Fedora 25, makemkv v1.12.2
The system the drive does work on is "Lenovo G50" Fedora 28, makemkv v1.14.2

[maiteekwin]

Try uninstalling makemkv v.1.12.2 and install the new verison: v.1.14.2

I did that and it worked for me

[crhrwc]

Great to know that works, I'm going to upgrade my OS soon and move to v.1.14.2.

[crhrwc]

Well upgrading my Fedora 25 desktop, which makemkv is licensed to, so I can move from makemkv v.1.12.2 to v.1.14.2 is going to take longer than I thought due to some other things I'm running there.

So, plan B, run makemkv inside a VM. Not sure anyone else is doing this, but it works fine, I now have v.1.14.2 running inside a Fedora 28 VM, on my Fedora 25 desktop.

Only trouble was fiddling with KVM to get it to use USB 3 instead of the default USB 2 interface.