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We've got it included in our main repo just fine with Gentoo, quick glance it looks like Ubuntu and Fedora aren't that hard either. Not sure which OS the OP is talking about here.

It's an old post I know, but udev is tricky, so here I am. :) I invested a bunch of time googling and found that you can't start long living processes from udev. So i set up another ("in-between") script (run_on_disc_inserted.sh) which is called by udev and simply starts my ripping script ...

Okay, I figured it out. Put a Blu-ray disc in your tray (not DVD or CD, they will report different speeds), and run cdrdao: cdrecord -prcap Here's a snippet from mine: Maximum read speed: 17982 kB/s (CD 102x, DVD 12x, BD 4x) Current read speed: 17982 kB/s (CD 102x, DVD 12x, BD 4x) Maximum write spee...

So, Blu-ray drives have different read speeds. Spec says a 1x can read at 32 Mbits / second, or, 4.5 megabytes.

Is there a way though to detect the read-speed of an optical drive in Linux that anyone knows of?

Just a heads up, if you're using Gentoo, you'll need SCSI generic support in your kernel built-in or as a module (sg). Look for CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG

Here's a script I wrote and use to rip all my stuff regardless of where it's at -- a device file, a directory, or an ISO I've already made, and will use the proper makemkvcon arguments. Some example usages: dvd_makemkv /dev/sr0 dvd_makemkv bluray.iso dvd_makemkv /mnt/bluray Here you go, hope this he...