www.makemkv.com

I came looking here because I had a similar problem, "can't find any usable optical drives". In my case, I'm using makemkv inside VNC (Linux, Fedora 29).

And the fix was "chmod a+rw /dev/sg1"

Hopefully folks Googling VNC, MakeMKV, and doesn't work will hit on this solution

Just to note here, the way I was able to get 1.14.2 (and now 1.14.3) to run on F25 was to run F28 in a VM and install MakeMKV 1.14.2 there.

Download makemkv-oss-1.14.3.tar.gz and makemkv-bin-1.14.3.tar.gz, unzip, untar.

yum install qt4-devel qt4 qt5 openssl-devel ffmpeg-devel

Then follow the prescribed ./configure and make, make install steps in the makemkv-oss and makemkv-bin directories.

Makemkv 1.14.3 is out now and working great, reads AACS v68 discs, copied the Red Dwarf blu-ray boxset no problem!

Well upgrading my Fedora 25 desktop, which makemkv is licensed to, so I can move from makemkv v.1.12.2 to v.1.14.2 is going to take longer than I thought due to some other things I'm running there. So, plan B, run makemkv inside a VM. Not sure anyone else is doing this, but it works fine, I now have...

Great to know that works, I'm going to upgrade my OS soon and move to v.1.14.2.

As I said before, my LG WH16NS40 drive is locked out, won't read any BD's after I tried reading a disc with the v68 key and makemkv v1.12.2. So I moved the drive to another system and installed makemkv v1.14.2 and tried to read the v68 disc and it failed with the same "ILLEGAL REQUEST:COPY PROTECTIO...

That's good news, the Red Dwarf box set is just what I'm waiting to rip!

Any ETA for the next version of Makemkv?

What's the best drive to buy today? I was thinking of the ASUS bc-12d2ht or the ASUS BW-16D1HT

Yes I did submit it. I only see v66 covered by updates, I'm hoping for v68. My Blu-Ray drive is currently locked out, can't read any BD's until I update to v68. I'd be happy to test any newer/beta version on with my v68 BD.

I have a aacs v68 disc "Red Dwarf Series 1 - 8 Boxset BD". Any timeline when v68 support will be released?