
The price may seem steep, but compare it to the cost of a blu-ray playback device or a video game and it starts to be very reasonable. The key you receive is valid for all platforms and all versions (including future ones).

Makemkv is shareware: free to try for 30 days, then if you’ve found it useful you’re asked to pay for it. If you’re a developer familiar with ‘ make‘ and are comfortable doing a bit of unix admin stuff, then it’s easy. As I wrote last time, installing makemkv on your Ubuntu system is straight forward if you follow the detailed instructions. The solution was provided by an update to makemkv (1.6.13), it now supports bus encryption capable drives (BEC). I’m now happy to report that I can accomplish what I originally set out to do: rip and convert blu-ray discs on my Ubuntu system for playback on my mobile devices.

In my recent post I talked about the problems I had with blu-ray playback and Ubuntu.
