Makemkv 4k drive So the full size LG drive and the three slim LG drives I got recently, for UHD BD ripping, I purchased pre-flashed. MAkeMKV is writing content to the folder I selected using the backup function. I have not even tried to use anything other than makeMKV for 4k. Only thing you can do is try other 4k discs to see if they will work. by mike admin » Wed Jul 22, 2020 6:45 pm. After a few moments, a large Blu-Ray drive icon will appear. It is a standard Blu-ray drive. Nov 1, 2024 · However, if you have a 4K-friendly drive and want to rip a 4K UHD disc, you'll need to open MakeMKV and see if your drive is compatible with 4K discs—again, see the MakeMKV forum for more Jan 27, 2008 · Plus copying to a local platter drive concurrently as well. Picked up 2 of these last year for exactly your purpose and they have worked beautifully, and much much faster than what I had before. If your external Buffalo / Archgon / LG BU40N has encrypted firmware, flash BU40N 1. If your drive has one of these firmwares, and there is no MK version of the same firmware/drive model or higher number, you will have to sidegrade to Asus 3. The Blu-Ray drive won't read Blu-Ray media!!! Completely absurd and ridiculous. Not a ton of markup, quick, and it works really well! I currently use the slim Pioneer BDR-XS07S Jan 24, 2019 · I just mount the ISOs using the free Virtual CLone Drive from the Any DVD HD maker, Redfox website. 08. ~~If you need a drive that will read the discs, I highly recommend the ASUS BW-16D1X-U External Blu-ray Drive. 10 or later and a UHD friendly drive, you then can rip a UHD movie, assuming that the hashed key has been uploaded to that file already. 00, as noted below via DVDFab, and the drive will not recognize an inserted 4K disc. This is my 3rd LG drive and will be my last. 00 or Buffalo BU / BN Jan 22, 2021 · My Blue Ray drive is UHD "friendly", however, I can NOT get it to read/rip 4K Blue Rays! Frustrating as I have recently purchased 'The Lord Of The Rings' in 4k! I have the LG WH16NS40 model with firmware version 1. Nov 1, 2024 · However, if you have a 4K-friendly drive and want to rip a 4K UHD disc, you'll need to open MakeMKV and see if your drive is compatible with 4K discs—again, see the MakeMKV forum for more I have 2 LG drives from a few years ago, one is model UH12NS30 (manufactured Jan ‘14) and the other model is WH16NS40 (manufactured April ‘14). (Originally, the drive with the most reported success was the ASUS BW-16D1HT. AFAIK they have the firmware they left the factory with. Options include removable USB hard drive, locally on the PC (and then later expose the storage as a network share), and a NAS. My first rip yesterday was The Last Jedi and after 42 minutes I have a nice 49. 01_MK only. 4K subscribers in the makemkv community. Not all of them are blue rays but I probably need to buy multiple drives or I will be doing this forever. 10MK (for compatible ASUS 5. We have chosen to rip 4K discs and the group that manages UHD standards has mandated that all drives disable support for reading UHD discs. I tried briefly to use the Zidoo z9x but my old brain couldn't figure out how to use it. Sep 28, 2024 · See below I sell the pioneers with old fw they are the best UHD drives. Nov 22, 2017 · If your desktop drive has encrypted firmware, flash WH16NS60 1. Or if you want to diy see guide below Jan 22, 2025 · I have been in communication with TwoGuyz trying to get information on availability or FLASHING of OR Purchasing of compatible drives for UHD 4K ripping. Version 1. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. 0X and it gets there, and stays there. 00 Is this a good drive to buy for ripping UHD Bluerays? What are the pitfalls with purchasing this drive. While the drive may very well play It's fine as is. Sep 21, 2023 · Can this still be done, if so which current external usb3 drives can rip 4k uhd using makemkv? Epson EH-TW9400 (6050ub), Stewart 123" CIMA Neve tabtension, Marantz 7704, Emotiva XPA-5 Gen2, Emotiva XPA-2 Gen2, Densen B-340+, Arendal 1723 Towers, Arendal 1723 Center, 4XArendal 1961 heights, 4xMonitor Audio BX1 (Surrounds), 2XSVS PB-2000, Dune HD Forum permissions. Use google. 9. All drives starting from BDR-208 should be (eventually) supported, including rebranded ASUS/Optiarc/Verbatim clones. Hello I recently purchased a drive a XRTFORE External 4k Blu Ray Drive. billycar11. There are at least two model number variations and #43888 is this drive. Step 2: The program will detect the 4K Blu-ray disc. It’s never going to work on 4K disks because it can’t read them. Could be a bad set of discs. UPDATE: I have purchased the Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD but feel free to recommend any other Pioneer drives in the comments as this could help other people new to ripping Blu-Rays. What a relief! Jul 31, 2019 · * There are two discs, a blue standard bluray and a black 4k uhd * The blue disc reads and rips in MakeMKV * The black disc shows up as "no disc inserted" == Drive Information from Sticker == Model: WH16NS40 Date: 2019 07 17 ROM Version: 1. The manufacturer date is 2022. Any drive capable of reading blu-ray discs (which will be any blu-ray drive, it's only writing to discs that some drives can't do), can be used with makeMKV to rip 1080p blu-rays. Minimum system requirements for Ultra HD 4K Blu-ray playback Operating System: Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8. Drove me bonkers for YEARS till I bought another one to replace it (ran the same fw update command) and bang, 4K drive issue. I would highly recommend buying a pre-flashed/tested drive. 2019): I have updated the Modified ASUS Flasher which will now allow: The LG BP60NB10 external UHD drive to be flashed with firmware LG_BP60NB10_1. Typical Blu-ray movie takes 30 GB. Mar 15, 2019 · Fundamentally, in order for LibreDrive to work, the drive should allow modification of drive microcode in memory. MakeMKV should work with most Pioneer drives in LibreDrive mode. Reopen under new control. There is 1 case amongst my failed attempts that's different, almost all my failed rip attempts have been immediately after unwrapping the plastic film from buying the disc then ripping and failing however Transformers: The Movie anniversary 4K re-release actually worked 1st time no problem but it being 4K Aug 27, 2016 · Look in your MakeMKV data directory and see if you have any files with names that start with "MKB_v". Typical DVD movie takes 6 GB on hard drive. MakeMKV is a format converter, otherwise called "transcoder". I didn't see it on the recommended drives list, but I did see it on the Newer OEM Firmwares list. 10MK [b](for compatible ASUS 5. I don't want to spend a lot on a Blu-ray drive that I'll only use for 3 to 5 movies. If my 'main' drive doesn't rip it, usually one of the others will. Hi! I have an ASUS BW-16D1X-U powered USB Blu-ray drive. Luckily, the MakeMKV community came up with a modified firmware for most common ASUS and LG Blu-Ray drives. Dec 21, 2017 · Which drives work with UHDs? You need a BDXL-compatible LibreDrive drive, which includes most "official" and all "friendly" UHD drives. I recommend you keep Are there any disc drives that arent a billion dollars that can do blu-ray and hd dvds? I am going to tackle my dads collection of nearly 3,000 movies. commented. 25 drive route and if I would then need to get an enclosure or if there was a good standalone external writer/reader for 4k/blu ray that works with MKV. LibreDrive is simply a program that MakeMKV can use to directly communicate with a drive's controller (rather than talking to the OS and then the drive). But I did not want to deal with that again. Very happy with the results. 25)[/b] or [b](BU40N 1. Nov 26, 2008 · There is however a third way - take the drive back to the basic level. From what I've read on other drives, this being a slim drive isn't going to make it the fastest one out there. I am copying files to local drives on my UHD Plex machine concurrently with files being copied to my unRAIDs over the LAN. there is no obviou BR number on the drive nor year it was Manufactured. Change the optical drive embedded software in a way that the drive becomes a “primitive” device - one that just positions a laser, reads and decodes the data. i used to have an external enclosure drive but went with the portable drives as they are easier to deal with (size and weight-wise). Head to the Blu-ray drive and load your 4K Blu-ray disc. Aug 18, 2020 · If your desktop drive has encrypted firmware, flash WH16NS60 1. Any of the full sized drives can be installed in an external sata -> usb enclosure I offer two different full sized enclosures and three different full sized drives. 2 Replies 332 Views Last post by CSW1984 Hi all! What is a good current recommendation for a makemkv compatible, small, external drive, 4k UHD? (ideally USB C) I have seen drives some folks on here are selling preflashed, but don't see any pre flashed portable USB ones. Jul 16, 2021 · If you bring in a movie, you may face an unpleasant surprise. If MakeMKV can use LibreDrive, it I love mine! It is perfect for ripping discs. If you update the firmware you will lock the drive out of Libre drive and won't be able to do anything with MKV. MakeMKV is capable of processing most Blu-ray/DVDs, including 4K and 3D Blu-rays. Make a drive free from “policing” functionality, a drive that just passes all data from the disc to the user. It doesn’t say 4K UHD on it. At the time of this writing LibreDrive mode is enabled for about 200 different drive/firmware variations. This can be checked by drive platform: Jan 22, 2021 · Many threads on MakeMkv sites about this topic are quite old and links are outdated as well. You technically need to purchase MakeMKV to fully unlock Blu-ray/UHD Blu-ray ripping, but it's free while in beta (and it's been in beta for years now), and beta keys are posted in the forums. All you really need is MakeMKV and a compatible UHD drive. 25" Drive Firmwar But your comment raises a question. 25 drives ONLY)[/b] or [b](LG WH16NS60 1. 25 drives ONLY) or (LG WH16NS60 1. Despite not having a full GUI editor, MakeMKV still makes editing this setting somewhat easy. makemkv and that drive with that firmware can read any region disc whats the error? Reply reply r/UHD_Drives. You state that the best external drive is a 5. As the external case uses USB, and an external stand-alone drive uses USB as well, why would the 5. Do not touch the firmware at all. 03-MK first, then you can either leave it as is or flash BU40N 1. Need some more info, could be a bunch of things ranging from drive locked (drm feature that locks the drive down when an AACS has been updated on a disk that makemkv can’t make the handshake with), a bad disk, to a fails drive. Sep 2, 2023 · 💬 MakeMKV Compatible UHD Drives Thread https://forum. You will need to store the decrypted file somewhere for playback by your media player. 25 drive, but, ideally smaller, and powered via the USB C. You cannot post new topics in this forum You cannot reply to topics in this forum You cannot edit your posts in this forum You cannot delete your posts in this forum Just make sure to thoroughly read the forums and you won't have a problem bricking the drive when and if you want UHD. While searching, I found an ASUS BC-12D2HT drive. ) How do I know if a UHD is native 4K or an upscale? The 5 1/4" internal drives have been about 10-15% faster. Feb 11, 2022 · The main work to support Pioneer drives is done. 05? For that matter would a Pioneer BDR-209BDK, BDR-212V or BDR-212DBK be a better replacement drive for BD rips, UHD rips are not specifically needed. Not all blu-ray drives are supported though, the makemkv forum has a list in their guide on drive flashing. The MKV format can store multiple video/audio tracks with all meta-information and preserve chapters. Will be external drive to usb 3. Mar 8, 2010 · MakeMKV drive speed control. by CSW1984 » Wed Apr 02, 2025 6:03 pm. zgq xpezgbm yif wjnoem tkkjc ndjrps zhcp fto hpwmk djizdouq ftn poki xxua nyjx ehglb