Subj : Re: MakeMKV
To   : MIKE POWELL
From : Tracker1
Date : Sun Jul 24 2022 15:48:51

On 7/21/22 12:48, MIKE POWELL wrote:
 >
 > Welllllll.... I do not have your or their confidence in makemkv.  I
 > got it compiled and poped one of the disks in question in.  It has
 > been working on it for about 1:45.  The "time remaining" to scan the
 > contents is now up over 43 *hours*.  I am going to let it continue
 > overnight, but I suspect it will be up over 100 hours by morning.

Is it bluray or dvd?  I've found there are some discs that are just not 
working right in PC rips...  If you're using windows, there's also 
ANYDVD-HD as another option, can use it with handbrake.  I've found 
MakeMKV more reliable.

 > The disk cover says "THIS DISK IS EXPECTED TO PLAY BACK IN DVD VIDEO
 > "PLAY ONLY" DEVICES, AND MAY NOT PLAY IN OTHER DVD DEVICES...
 > INCLUDING PC DRIVES."  As I noted in past I was able to get Handbrake
 > to find the advertising and "extras" titles on the disks, but not the
 > actual episodes.

Yeah, copy-protection schemes can get *VERY* interesting to say the elast.

 > I suspect they've come up with something beyond encryption and
 > actually have something on the disk that prevents PC DVD Drives from
 > being able to read them.

They'll play games with actual sector data printing the discs... this 
isn't a problem for actual players that just go where the device media 
tells it to go, but it's harder for computers trying to read the whole 
thing.


 > As a side note, it looks like MakeMKV has not been updated since 2010.
 > The disks I have found that have this message on them are about 10
 > years newer than that.

Looks like there's recent versions to me...

https://www.makemkv.com/download/

Bought a license a few years ago, as it's about the only option in Linux 
that works worth a damn.
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