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#Makemkv uhd drives update

Firmware update cannot fix disc reading or standby issues, but easily can do many bad things to your drive.

Buying this drive (for a price comparable to a single UHD disc) is highly recommended.Ī very important note – whether you have an “official” UHD drive or an “UHD-friendly” drive, do not update its firmware under any circumstances.

More importantly it is future-proof, as it is not subject to AACS2 revocation. It is cheap, fast, excellent writer, reads all discs, and comes as internal or USB3 external. The absolute best “UHD-friendly” drive at the moment is ASUS BW-16* series.

#Makemkv uhd drives software

The “DeUHD” guys (as a note, buying their software is a waste of money, as it will likely become obsolete in a few months) invented the “UHD-friendly” classification and do maintain a current list of all drives which is presented below. The next version of MakeMKV will have a workaround, so the clicking haste would no longer be necessary.

#Makemkv uhd drives full

The workaround is to make a full disc backup first. With current version of MakeMKV it means that you have to choose titles/tracks very fast after you open the disc – once the drive becomes quiet and disc stops spinning, you will get read errors after you press “Make MKV” button. All drives have a bug where drive “jams” the disc after it goes into power saving mode. Some LG drives have trouble reading certain UHD mediaĢ. There are two known issues with these drives:ġ. Overall, the “UHD-friendly” drive is the best drive one can have at the moment. Same thing applies to many other software, including libbluray – having a “UHD-friendly” drive, a configuration file with a current AACS1 host certificate and disc-specific volume key, one can open a UHD disc in handbrake, VLC, or any other libbluray-based software. If a volume key is known for the disc ( see ) then MakeMKV could open the disc directly or could open a previously created full disc backup. In practice it means that MakeMKV can read these discs and can make a non-decrypted full disc backup. One cannot use these with “official” software, but such drive allows reading UHD discs by any software with a regular AACS1 host certificate. The “UHD-friendly” drives are regular BD drives that just happen to read BDXL media but do not implement AACS2 protection. This means that at the moment MakeMKV cannot even make a non-decrypted full disc backup of an UHD disc from such drive. At the time of this writing no such certs are publicly available, and certainly MakeMKV doesn't have one. The “official” UHD drives do implement AACS2 protection, which means that in order just to read the data from the disc the software must present the AACS2 host certificate. TLDR: Buy internal or external ASUS BW-16* drive and do not update its firmware.Īt the moment there are two types of BD drives that can read UHD discs – “official” UHD drives and so-called “UHD-friendly” drives. EDIT: The information below is obsolete, MakeMKV can work with many 'official' drives, please see the FAQ.