LibreDrive for ripping Blu-Rays (ASUS BW-16D1HT)

While you can rip most 1080P Blu-Rays with MakeMKV and having the key for the movie in question, ripping 4K Blu-Rays or more obscure 1080P titles will require LibreDrive. LibreDrive simply means the drive will allow MakeMKV raw access to the entire disc, and the drive won't police itself if it doesn't have the keys to the kingdom. Only specific drives allow their firmware to be flashed to allow "LibreDrive" access, and some of these compatible models are locked down to prevent such firmware flashing in newer versions. You can either flash a compatible drive yourself, or buy one already flashed. I recommend the later. I've bought several drives from a well respected member on the MakeMKV forums with great success.

[forgives]

Nice. That seemed to break the region lock as well, which i was looking for. Thanks for the informative video! (I use the same drive as well)

[minipicc]

It worked for me on my first try yesterday after I got an ASUS BW-16D1HT Drive in the mail Wednesday!!! You are the best!!!

[lafuriag]

Got mine in a about 2 weeks very happy Alex came through Works great for me ...

[htzzYT]

good video, i bought asus BW-16D1HT from my local store and i will flash rom myself, i hope everything will go well :)

EDIT: I just think there is a bit too much scaremongering in this video, i got just couple of months old drive(manufacture date) and didnt have any issues flashing it to libredrive. That dude basically sells at 2x price what is essentially 10min procedure and if prepared under 10 secs.

[slavo_mir]

Two years later I'm enjoying my USB-C 4k UHD Verbatim 43888 for like 100EUR.- (Pioneer drive inside), which came with unpatched firmware out of the box, thus LibreDrive-friendly since dayONE :)

[MaryHarper-xr]

AACS58 is the drm protection on a bluray

[babus]

personaly i just want to watch my movies without the dvd reader go in the backround you know ....

[unbound]

I see you're rockin the Corsair 750D. Nice!

[BoboMedia]

Just got mine from Alex. So far it works perfect!

[EpicB]

Can I use the LibreDrive functionality outside of MakeMKV? I rip my non-4K Blu-rays as ISO images and then strip the copy protection with DVD Fab. I want to know how possible that is with a 4K Blu-ray.

[CarlosKoschel-pl]

Now my Blu-ray player is able to read and rip discs, but it isn't playing them in software like PowerDVD and DVDFab. Do you know the reason?

[creed]

The one I ordered came with no location assigned and it works anyways with Make MKV - I don't really understand why I would need to firmware changed . Guess I will have to watch the video here again to see what I missed ???

[calsmith]

Respectfully: After two plus years .... is Alex still selling Libre Drives? I'm sincerely interested....

[domTT]

What type of cable can this drive use to connect to a newer PC? A USB to SATA adapter cable? Thanks.

[hochhasd]

I have a LG WH16NS40 and I was told this drive has libre drive in order to deactivate the copy block on it. I made it an external dvd drive. How can I get this feature to work?

[lee__]

Just bought the same unit as my 1st blu ray drive for PC off ebay running a pre flashed custom Firmware 3.01DE. I'm not sure if that is the same firmware your running. looking forward to receiving mine in the post in the next day or two. Can't believe how expensive the 100GB blank discs are though !!!! I ended up buying 10 x 50GB discs just to try out for backing up some PC games / software etc. I have a couple of South Korean and Japanese blu ray movies to back up and serve to my big tv hopefully like yours my drive will be region free also.

[W.E.S.T]

Does it mean that if I use it with my Kodi - Libreelec - Coreelec - OSMC or whathever, Connected externaly with USB adapter to my device such as Raspberry Pi - Odroid.... It will read all my Bluray - UHD movies without any restriction ?

[joshuaharper]

Can someone tell me where I can get one of these drives that are already flashed I would greatly greatly appreciate it. Thanks for any help.

[alevile]

You bought this ASUS at Aliexpress?
Is the device working fine so far?

[howard]

what is your gpu in this video i mean which nvidia rtx