This lists a lot of different manufacturers and drive types. The best source I found for this was a thread at the MakeMKV Forums. You can do this on Step 1: Get a compatible drive This blog post is trying to make it easier to follow the instructions. It’s all there, it’s just badly organised. It takes a lot of jumping around, reading between the lines, and figuring stuff out. ![]() If you can follow some detailed instructions, you can get this done. And instead of making the instructions super easy to read, various people sell software that makes paying them and using their software easier than following the badly-written instructions. So the easily findable instructions are generally terrible. There are a number of cottage industries that have sprouted and help make this possible, and everyone wants to make a buck. What isn’t obvious is that there are only a handful of blu-ray drives that can be used for this. Ripping Blu-Ray is free, but getting started isn’t easy And only some drives can be updated this way. But because the various protections on Blu-ray use code that actually runs in the blu-ray drive itself you have to update the firmware of your drive. With Handbrake and DVDs, any DVD drive will work. With DVDs, you just download Handbrake, add to it libdvdcss and then it just rips. Hopefully a few more pages like this will get more people finding the info they need. ![]() I wrote this blog post because when I tried to figure out how to do this, it was actually difficult to find the forums over at MakeMKV using whatever terms I was searching with. When I looked to find out how to rip Blu-ray discs, I discovered it’s a bit more complicated than ripping DVDs. I recently acquired an old film on Blu-ray because that was the only format it was available in.
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