Submitted 13 hours ago by BeerStainedBunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone to steamdeck@sopuli.xyz
I’ve been buying physical media and want to save digital copies for SD card. I had no issues with my CD for music but DVDs don’t work.
I have an optical drive that I plug in and it works. VLC with libdvdcss installed through Discovery failed. I tried MakeMKV but it doesn’t detect the optical drive.
sudo modprobe sg made MakeMKV detect my portable Blu-ray optical drive on my Steam Deck
Is it a permissions issue? If you’re running software through flatpak, do you need to enable access to the optical drive device through flatseal?
I’ll check because I used another software through Discovery for the CD and it worked
Are you able to playback DVDs through VLC?
Not yet. The only thing I have to figure out now is how to change the region in MakeMKV
You probably need a DVD drive, but are using a CD drive. They look almost identical, but are different types of disc. Fortunately, DVD drives can use CDs just fine so you wouldn't have to juggle the two.
That makes sense. I double checked the box and it says DVD-RW 3.0 USB
Time to continue troubleshooting then, good luck!
This is a dumb question, but is your optical drive only a CD drive, or does it support DVDs?
It says it supports DVDs. I was able to mount it and look at the files but I couldn’t do anything with them
hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
If you got MakeMKV via Flatpak, you may want to get Flatseal, and manage permissions. It may not have access to that device.
BeerStainedBunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 hours ago
This is the first I’ve heard of flatseal I’ll definitely check it out and see
hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Flatpaks are often restricted on what resources they can access because of how they work. I am not sure of the exact option you will need; but my guess is under devices, you can allow USB devices, and specific folder paths and it may work.
MajinBlayze@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
There’s also “application permissions” in settings