Pro LibreDrive Blu-ray flashing tip:

If you have a Buffalo BRXL-16U3 and it uses an LG BH16NS58 with drive platform MT1959, you can flash "WH16NS60 1.02-MK" as mentioned in this post with encryption and makemkvcon from MakeMKV 1.17.7 for Linux (in the binary tar gz, works on Arch right now but haven't updated within a few days) and it'll enable LibreDrive:

https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=186648#p186648

Instructions for flashing, will require modifying:

https://blog.ssanj.net/posts/2023-10-02-how-to-flash-libre-firmware-on-to-a-lg-bluray-drive-on-macosx.html

#LibreDrive #MakeMKV #Bluray #Linux

Cool, cool. the #UHD capable Bluray drive I just bought (Pioneer BDR-XD08U) is not compatible with #MakeMKV and #LibreDrive . Damn. I sent in a copy of the firmware dump as instructed, so, eh, we'll see what shakes out.

#foss