www.makemkv.com

The website appears to be back up.

MakeMKV has some process for checking whether or not there is a newer version, but I cannot figure out how it is doing this.

Is there an RSS feed or some other type of feed (XML or otherwise) that it is using to compare itself against a "known latest version"?

If so, where can that feed or page be ...

If you don't want to try to figure out the command-line settings for MakeMKV yourself, I highly recommend

"Batch Rip Actions for Automator"
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/242398/BatchRip ... -1.1.1.dmg

Once you set it up, you can ignore most of the options except "Batch Rip":

1. Set that and make sure ...

Just in case anyone else finds this thread via Google and then can't find the MakeMKV folder in ~/Library/ -- that's because it isn't there :-)

It's ~/.MakeMKV/

Which I knew, but forgot, and went a little nutty trying to find.

However, even after copying the ~/.MakeMKV/settings.conf file from my ...

Am I correct that the method [^1] of decrypting Blu-Ray movies for playback via VLC (or others) is a free feature of MakeMKV and will continue to work for free, even after MakeMKV leaves beta?

If so, this is a major piece of good news.

I am working on an article about this, and MakeMKV in general ...