I use makemkv. Works every time. Once in a while you have to open the disk “manually” and select the right track but ya, makemkv does it all.

Free if you want to update the beta trial key every few months. After years of use I bought a lifetime license for like $20. Probably the best value I’ve ever gotten.

Hi, I actually wrote a guide on how to do this on my blog: https://nullish.cat/blog/disc-rip/ The gist of it is just MakeMKV (and ImgBurn if you like ISOs.)

Haven't tried it on Linux recently, but MakeMKV still supports Linux apparently. You have to build it yourself though.

https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224&sid=1674d5df36b036b50d6fabdfb380e72c

You should be able to use FlatSeal to override the Flatpak's sandbox and grant access to VLC's library files, which should include libdvdcss.

Is it not in your distro's repo? I am pretty sure I've used handbrake from Arch repo just fine.

@ryan_harg makemkv

What happened to libdvdcss? Is that not a thing anymore?

From what I remember - it's been a minute - there were many encryption keys that the publishing houses used to encrypt the DVDs released to the wild and they were packaged up in this codec, when they were found.

Handbrake will probably still work if you compile it from source, but it seems like upstream isn't paying much attention to libdvdcss support.

The version in Debian's repo still works for me, anyway.

DVD readers often don't let you read from DVDs until opened by a valid program.... But stay unlocked after that.

What I've done is open in VLC, close immediately, then use dd to copy the contents of the disc to an ISO