YotLD: MakeMKV on Linux

MakeMKV is a great tool to bring BluRay movies you own into JellyFin. For some reason, it is required to build the Linux version of MakeMKV. There is no prebuild package available from the original developers.

I try to not mess up my Linux filesystem if possible, so I created a Dockerfile to build MakeMKV with podman.

tl;dr: The code can be found on my codeberg.

MakeMKV comes with two packages:

• Closed source makemkv-bin package
• Open source makemkv-oss package

Of course there are more dependencies to be build:

• ffmpeg in the latest version
• fdk-aac

The script build-makemkv.sh executes podman to download source packages and build all components. Inside of the resulting docker image, the working MakeMKV can be found in /opt/makemkv.

This folder is extracted from the Docker image by launching a temporary container. After that, it should be moved into /opt/makemkv on the host system and can be started like so:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/makemkv/lib/ /opt/makemkv/bin/makemkv

You also may want to create a MakeMKV.desktop shortcut:

[Desktop Entry]
Comment[en_US]=
Comment=
Exec=env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/makemkv/lib/ /opt/makemkv/bin/makemkv
GenericName[en_US]=
GenericName=
Icon=/opt/makemkv/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/makemkv.png
MimeType=
Name[en_US]=MakeMKV
Name=MakeMKV
Path=
PrefersNonDefaultGPU=false
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=

Have fun!