www.makemkv.com

I will have another try.

Of course, these windows users with tons of dlls and dot.net and c++-runtime libs are better of.

To be serious: I am glad seeing linux supported at all - in any way: static or dynamic.

So far, I am remuxing now by default.

What still troubles me why I see for just about a second a still picture before the movie starts itselfs when playing the file for controlling with vlc. Is this the jpeg-cover file? Why is is added to the movie although I didn't select it?

No, sometimes, there are some in the source (~cover.jpg etc), but I only select the English, lossless DTS or ac3 audio tracks and the subtitles tracks available. At least that's my purpose. Should I try to select one of those by purpose to see what behaviour comes out of it?

I was able to make ...

Sorry, I was too quick at all.

What at least seems to be for sure:
- Some files can be played directly with my Hardware-stand-alone-Player, some not.
- all files can be played with my Hardware Player after remuxing them as described above with mkvmerge from mkvtoolnix.

The rest is just confusing ...

I'll try my way back and report if I have success with using the copy of makemkv directly with my stand alone player again.

I have to correct myself, I just checked an earlier copy I have made and the regression I described must have been ealier than 1.7.10, but I cannot track down the exact version.

This is an observation and a question at the same time:

Copying a blu ray with the current version 1.7.10 resulted in a mkv file which makes my hardware player (LG Bu Ray Player) crash. Remuxing the file with mkvmerge like mkvmerge --compression -1:none makemkv.mkv -o remuxed.mkv gives a file ...