makeMKV gone? - Is there a plan B?

Not sure about the AUR, but the site goes down all the time and the creator has been MIA for months in the past. It's still on flathub and you can download publicly maintained keydbs, so even if the creator and website vanished permanently it'll keep working. If it were to stop working at some point you could probably cobble together a replacement with a few other tools: aaru to dump the disc, something to decrypt the aacs files, and mkvtoolnix to remux.

This project might be up your alley if you want to rebuilt your stack:

https://github.com/automatic-ripping-machine/automatic-ripping-machine

I noticed this too.. Especially for Linux this may be tough.

Weather update. I THOUGHT I read through the makeMKV forums. cough Looked at the top 5 or so posts. See the post datea are old. Leave cough

Turns out if you look a bit further down, all the posts are saying the same as the comments here

So my bad for not doing my research properly. (Hey. I got glasses. It's not my fault /s)

Rough one if the creator's actually gone dark, that project's been load-bearing infrastructure for a long time. A few things holding the fort while the dust settles:

• The AUR package might just be pulled because the upstream download link broke, not necessarily dead-dead. Worth checking the AUR comments or grabbing an archived copy of the last known-good installer if you need to keep ripping today.
• makemkv-oss exists as a stripped decrypt-only fork on some distros, handles the AACS/BD+ decryption piece even without the GUI wrapped around it.
• For the actual muxing after decryption, ffmpeg with libbluray compiled in will read a decrypted BD structure fine, it's just not as one-click as MakeMKV was.
• The part that's genuinely hard to replace is ongoing AACS key updates for new discs, that's usually the real value MakeMKV was providing beyond the rip itself, not just the tool.

Hoping someone picks it back up.