How To Rip 4K Dolby ATMOS Blu-rays in 2023! | NEW UPDATED GUIDE

I hear that some disc will brick your drive.

Just before I flashed my drive I was wondering if will I be able to use it as normal to play 4K blu rays with power DVD ??

You know what is annoying. The price of the external enclosure. They are overpriced.

If you're like me and you find yourself buying a lot of new releases you'll run into "volume key is unknown" errors more often. In that case you don't have to wait for MakeMKV to get the key to rip the disc. If you do the steps you did to make a backup image but DON'T check the "Decrypt video files" box you will make an encrypted backup and once MakeMKV gets the volume key you can open that folder in MakeMKV instead of the disc and convert the files from there. It's pretty much always faster converting from a hard drive/SSD than doing it directly from the disc so it can save some time in the future.

Thanks so much for this guide! It was incredibly easy to understand.

I just bought the drive/enclosure with your affiliate links on Amazon. I'll be coming back to this video when they arrive.
Hope you earned some money this Black Friday! =)

Thanks, that worked great. I can finally watch my 4K Bluray disc.

Won't you miss out on Dolby Vision becouse Windows doesn't support it?

OMG, I've avoided flashing my drive due to how complicated the forums made it sound, this simplified the process in only few steps and it WORKED for my slim LG drive.

Thanks for the video tutorial.

I know I know, I’m the guy asking about how to flash the firmware on a Mac :)

I bought a Verbatim Ultra HD 4K - BDXL drive - SuperSpeed USB 3.1 Gen 1 - external - Bluray-BDRW - USB 3.1unit.
Under the Verbatim logo it's a: Pioneer UD04 v1.14 firmware External Ultra Blu Ray Slim Line unit.
Try to open up a 4k UHD movie.

MakeMKV says:
LibreDrive compatible drive is required to open this disc - video can't be decrypted.
Failed to open disc.

What can I do to solve it?
//Regards DMTM

Will compressing the movies mean that some quality will be lost? Is there a line where that loss begins, or is there a specific compression that is the best for having the same quality but fewer data? I have just set up my Plex/Jellyfin server and bought an LG c3; I'm looking to see how I can save space because I'm using the NAS for family photos as well.

Good about Blu-ray is: HD (Up to 1080p, 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray runs in 4K), More Protection with Scratch and Damage, Finger Prints removed, Soft and Smooth Disc, 7.1 Surround Sound and later on Dolby Atmos Audio, Plays it on PlayStation 3 or Later Models, Xbox One and 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Only on Xbox One S/X and Xbox Series X, Windows and Mac, Trailer got much better than 90s and before with Movie Trailers, Cases of Blu-ray, No Internet Connection Required, Blu-ray and DVD Disc stacked up with Packages at once, Space Savings, Digital Codes and The name Blu-ray makes scene because of Blue Lasers.

Bad about Blu-ray is: Software Updates, Disc Holders for some Movies and Can't Skip Warnings and Home Entertainment Logos stuff.

"blocked the ability to rip discs"... uhh duh.. Ripping from discs is illegal (despite what people think)

I have Pioneer BDR-XD07TUHD and it works great.

Thanks!

UPDATE: All good. Just rip a couple of Star Wars 4K. Working EXCELLENT!!!

Hi Logan, I just tried to install the flasher on a Windows 10 machine but it's crashing. Do you know if there's a new version of the patcher?

I turned my Raspberry Pi4B into a NAS with an 18TB external USB HDD. I built the Samba share on a larger computer, but the Pi4B serves the share without performance issues.

This is a great video. Your video is the first one I have found that goes over flashing the disc drives in steps. Thank you.

How do you remove the directors commentary track/audio from blu ray rips? I have backed up a bunch of blu rays using mkv but when i play them on my roku medi player it only plays the movie with the directors commentary track 🤦🏻‍♂️

If I were to ever get into politics, my main platform would be right to repair and right to use laws. Consumers shouldn’t have to jump through hoops to use and fix the things we buy however we want for personal purposes. But, I digress.

So what should I look for when buying a Blu-ray drive? I want to buy game of thrones and rip it so I can watch without the disc,

Oh why bother

You're fucking awesome, thank you! I been meaning to back up and store my old library, this cuts a lot of research.. even though there's still a lot to read through.

Worked great thanks a ton !!!!!

How does someone rip the entire disc as an iso to completely clone the disc and have it playback on like vlc media player?

I have never been able to get the dolby vision to work on the mkv file. I rip the entire disc then play the mts file on my tv and dolby vision works perfect

This was super helpful and made sense. Thank you

It's has changed how you get at the allyou need software make,

Wait the blu ray drive is a normal one, so are you forcefully making accept a 4k disc?

I find it hilarious that this is even a video that has to be put out today. We used to do this stuff back in the early 2000's with dvd's, and early blu-rays and it was pretty common knowledge back then. We really are going in a circle.

I didn't realize that my old-ish LG BD drive was capable of this. Since I have a new LG 42" C3 monitor for my computer, I was motivated to try your advice.
It worked perfectly!
I had to run to Walmart to buy a 4K disc to try it out, and I'm now transferring the disc to my server with Make MKV.
Thanks!

Does it also plays 4KUHD discs with Cyberlink or any software or just rip?

Additional comment on my personal experience with ripping blu-ray or 4k disks is that mine took FOREVER to convert. I have the identical blu-ray drive but my processor is an i7. I wish I could upgrade but I can't afford it at this time.

bought a pioneer bdr-s13u-x from billy off the makemkv forums with flashed firmware and a vantec nexstar dx2 enclosure and its been fantastic

Do you recommend to turn off auto driver updates or something? I don't want to risk to get my drive updated -> to a point where you can't rip anymore.
Or is it safe to use under Win11? Wouldn't it be better to use it under linux?

For 4K, you just need a bluray drive with a firmware version 3.0. I recommend the asus bc-12d2ht 3.0 & asus bc-16d2ht 3.0. I have both and they work fine for 4K discs when using Make MKV.

I prefer a local movie and TV show database to streaming. I have over 2044 movies and 124 TV series. I have the original physical media and MP4 version that I play using Raspberry Pi 4 running Kodi. All of it is stored on a Synology NAS running six 8TB ssd with single drive redundancy, all backed up twice on external mechanical drives.

If I were to have to rebuild the collection from the physical media, it would take about 3 months working on it 8 hrs a day.

great update right on time! i had to format/reinstall my main PC a while back. lost all the tools to rip that i had installed. luckily my pioneer still had the OG firmware so i was good to go. Just grabbed the Harry Potter series on sale on Amazon so wanted to rip them to my NAS. did have one issue with MakeMKV, but that was cause i didnt restart it after registering the beta key so it wouldnt decrypt the bluray. restarted the app and its ripping away right now.

I just want my movies on my server so I don't have to break out physical disks! Is that so wrong?

If I make BD backups, can I play them somehow and have the experience be exactly the same as if the disc was in the player?

Can you make another video and show how to add missing subs and record to blu-ray disk again ?

Thanks for the updated video! I saw the previous one and was pretty close to going that route until I saw this one. I got the LG one in this video from amazon and it interestingly already had the 1.02 firmware.

Can you do this with the LG DVD Blue_ray SATA GCC-H20L? if so can you tell me which firmware to pick?

What about us macintosh users? I'm not the only one asking.

if I have 200 4k movies and it takes an hourish per movie that is 200 hours I have to spend ripping. 200 hours would take 25 days if ripping everyday for 8 hours. yeah I think I can get up off my ass to swap a disc once in a while vs ripping.

Does this also work on DVDs as well?

My only problem is that some discs don't seem to work with the LG. My 4k copy of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince just doesn't seem to work at all. I'd like to go Pioneer but it seems they don't work with MakeMKV anymore.

I've been using the very drive you used in this and It works Great ..

Grreat video. Showed exactly what to do. I bought one of the LG drives from amazon. Worked great. But Just in case I kept my old (very) BD drive which still works. Thanks a bunch.

The drive is LG WH14NS40，but in the video, flashed the WH16NS60 firmware, is it ok ? or I need to flash the exactly WH14NS40 firmware?

My own observation: I inserted a blu-ray disk in at the start to test the new installed drive then forgot to remove the disk so it messed up this entire process. Removed and it's done. Thanks for your help!