Really want to deep dive and understand the landscape. There are a few 'mega threads' out there in the forums and such, such as Ultimate UHD Drives Flashing Guide Updated 2021, which are great if you Roku + Plex App - for watching on my projector (no TV for me)ĭisclaimer: Lots of affiliate links, but this is all the stuff I personally use, or that I know to be an equivalent replacement.Plex Media Server on my Mac - so everyone in the house can watch.Handbrake - for compressing backups into a format that's friendly for Plex and Roku.SDFtool ( zip), in 'enc' mode (Windows Only, no Mac or alternative).The WH16NS40-SVC50 v1.0.5 firmware (the MK pack).The Unitek ‎Y-1099NEW SATA ATAPI Adapter (Optical Disc compatible).The LG WH16NS40 'internal' blu-ray drive, which can operate in region-free 'LibreDrive' mode.***If the drive was modded previously, don't check the 'enc?' box*** In SDFtool Flasher, select the desired drive, select WRITE, check the 'enc?' box, press on '- Please select A Firmware to Write -', navigate to the correct firmware file, open it, and then press on START. ***This step created a backup of the current firmware in the program's Firmware_Dumps folder, save it in case something goes wrong***Ħ. Run SDFtool Flasher, select the desired drive, select READ and then START. Download the modded firmware pack and extract it.ĥ. Download SDFtool Flasher and extract it.Ĥ.

Run MakeMKV and verify your drive platform is MT1959.ģ.

***Make sure your drive uses MT1959 chip was made after 2015***Ģ. Luckily, the MakeMKV community came up with a modified firmware for most common ASUS and LG Blu-Ray drives. The Blu-Ray drive won't read Blu-Ray media!!! Completely absurd and ridiculous. It appears that hardware vendors have begun blocking UHD within the drives' firmware.

If you bring in a movie, you may face an unpleasant surprise. I don't know if you guys and girlettes are aware, but latest internal Blu-Ray drives (and its firmware) cannot read UHD discs.

Bp50nb40 libredrive