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How good do blu-ray drives work on Linux these days? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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Because it is dirt cheap compared to HDDs where I am, I will be storing my movie collection in Blu-Ray. And partially because I think spinny media is cool.

I currently got two secondhand options for the drive:

  • Pioneer BDR-209EBK
  • Panasonic UJ272

The drive will be plugged into my server (6th gen i5-6600, old desktop) via SATA. It will probably only read the disks I write so DRM is not much of a concern.

The disks will mostly be used as archival storage. Most of the time, they will be transferred to SSD a few days/hours before streaming, though sometimes they may be played straight from BD-R

Aside from that, most of the Blu-Ray writing software I found is GUI. So I'd also appreciate something I could control via web or CLI

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[–] 1 point 6 months ago

You can rip and store Blu-rays without DRM without Libredrive, just not UHD Blu-ray's unless the drive is on an old unpatched firmware. I have one such drive.

To burn a playable Blu-Ray movie you need the dump from MakeMKV and ImgBurn running in Wine. Blu-ray movies require UDF 2.50 I think. You can then create an .iso that can be burned to a disc using K3b or Brasero or whatever.

I'm happy to answer any questions as I have quite a bit of experience with this.

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