Hello. This is my first time using TrueNAS. I want to connect my Pioneer BDR-2213 to my NAS and read/write/rip bluray discs from it and store the media files on my NAS HDDs. Using the shell I have confirmed the system detects the Pioneer however it fails to mount every time. I get invalid argument errors and various issues trying to install drivers that the system says are already present on the kernel. Can I connect my Pioneer bluray reader to TrueNAS? How can i get this working? Is there a post where this problem is already solved? Please help
TrueNAS CORE version - TrueNAS-13.0-U6.2
You shouldn’t need to install drivers for a BD drive; however, you may find the “personal format-shifting” of your content challenging as I don’t believe there’s any “support for encrypted BD video” so to speak.
The Linux-based TrueNAS SCALE may be a better choice here, especially if you’re a first-time user, as we have a predefined App for Handbrake.
I just tried using TrueNAS scale… I had the same exact issue on that OS too. Both OS detect the bluray reader but will not allow me to mount it.
I gave up on bluray player on the NAS after a few dozen hours of getting trying to get it to work. At some point even passed through to a VM (including connecting it to an HBA & passing that through to the VM) & still couldn’t get it to read disks on the VM.
I 3d printed a holder for it, got a longer sata data wire, made some longer sata power cables, routed them outside of my pc case & it now occassionally gets plugged in when I need to use MakeMKV & back up something for Plex; which I then ingest to the NAS over the network.
Save your sanity. Or - if you do get it to work, please provide details so I can copy your notes!
You have confirmed my fears. This is very depressing. Considering the extent of the TrueNAS SW abilities I kind of expected TrueNAS to have made a patch for stuff like this. With a opensource platform this extensive I thought I could get this to work. I even went as far as to call Pioneer tech support and talk with a SW eng about this, he said he’d add it to their list of future patch work but as of now there’s no support for this.
Part of the issue is that TrueNAS is a NAS, Network Attached Storage, first, App server second. TrueNAS has never been targeted as a Media Server for it’s primary use. (Though plenty of people use it as a media server with the files on regular storage.)
Both HandBrake & MakeMKV are optical disc readers first. At some point people may have used them for playing videos. But, their main function was to copy the optical disc video file(s) off, onto regular storage, (HDD or SSD).
@TheHoneyPot - In case you did not know, the original purpose of TrueNAS was for Enterprise usage in Data Centers. They do not use NASes to play videos. (Though, the NASes may STORE video files if that is what the company wants…)
What can be done is to use HandBrake or MakeMKV on a desktop or laptop to get the video files. Then copy them via Samba / SMB to a TrueNAS share. A properly configured client device could then read the video files and play them on a T.V.
I do something similar. I extract the Blueray videos with MakeMKV, and DVD videos with Handbrake. Then trans-code the videos as needed with HandBrake. After, I copy them to my media server, (not TrueNAS but could have been). Next an App on my Roku media player allows me to watch the videos, (or listen to MP3s or CDs files moved over).
Here are some stats from my media server:
Count of MP3 & M4A songs in Music : 1103
Count of MPEG 4 videos in Videos : 3736
Count of JPEG photos in Photos : 720
Total size of music stored : 7.3G
Total size of videos stored : 2.0T
Total size of photos stored : 513M
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