MakeMKV and usb blu ray drives

[ncw1978]

Hi

I was wondering if anyone had any luck with MakeMKV for blu-ray ripping for plex and if a usb blu-ray drive was easy to set up.

Many thanks

NCW

 

[jgreco]

Should be plug and go, more or less. The upside to MakeMKV Linux is that it is perpetually in some sort of beta/free-to-use mode. I've had occasional issues with both the Windows and Linux versions where they decide to take forever on certain disks. While I haven't tried this on TrueNAS SCALE, there's no reason to think it wouldn't work that I can think of.

 

[Arwen]

I bought a license to use MakeMKV years ago, so no beta license update needed.

It seems to work fine on Linux, (but I have not tried it on TrueNAS SCALE).

 

[ncw1978]

OK I will look into it. Still learning quite a bit so we shall see

 

[SnoppyFloppy]

Truecharts have a MakeMKV app for Scale and it works. I haven't tried it with an USB BD drive though but I imagine that it works the same.

 

[Sawtaytoes]

How are you getting this working?

I tried adding my USB Blu-ray drive as `/dev/sr0`:

It's not showing up:

It doesn't seem to think I have an optical drive connected:

I tried mounting `/dev/sr0` in TrueNAS and saw the correct disk data:

 

[Sawtaytoes]

Figured it out:

Not sure how it works for SATA drives, but USB drives require a bit more finesse.

 

[Sawtaytoes]

One last piece of info. I needed to enable "Allow Privilege Escalation" under "Show Advanced Security Settings" or it wouldn't write files to the mounted Host Path.