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I still use the Pioneer one with the naturally occurring ripping ability.

Right, that's the one

Still, I was surprised that it took just the one step, and not too long ago, I was told that this particular drive now inside the 43888 couldn't be flashed at all.

It's whichever Verbatim 43888 Amazon DE has in stock these days.

I know what you mean. I've edited my post.

Because it was the one step I did and I'm a total newb myself with this

It wasn't the model I quoted. Not sure exactly which one it was. But I did just the one thing and it ripped both BD and UHD.

1. Flash the drive to ... I did only this and now I'm ripping an episode of Lower Decks...? Not complaining, of course :D Ripping my Joy UHD also worked, but it was a huge file, so after I've confirmed that the Star Truck episode works, I'll rip an episode of The Last of Us on UHD, and then I guess...

Has anyone made a "fan edit" 4K Director's Cut?

I was trying to just cut out the pirate story chapters, but they weren't nice enough to make those animated bits their own chapters.

My Verbatim/Pioneer 35888 shit the bed a few days ago and now I'm looking for something more durable. I've had it for just under two years and it's already stopped reading discs. They spin and it sounds like it's supposed to, but neither the OS nor MakeMKV sees anything :cry: I'll be buying and fla...

Tried cleaning and now it's making weird noises

My Verbatim/Pioneer 35888 shit the bed a few days ago and now I'm looking for something more durable. I've had it for just under two years and it's already stopped reading discs. They spin and it sounds like it's supposed to, but neither the OS nor MakeMKV sees anything :cry: I'll be buying and flas...

Although, dialogue now seems to be almost exclusively on the left channel On the computer, that is. This goes for both The Killer (2022) and The Phone

This is so random

A thousand thanks, kind stranger. I got it to work. The music is where it's supposed to be on the computer.

And so it is when I try to convert to FLAC again, so it must've been the Zidoo being dumb. Not surprising; it's an extremely random device.

It would seem that some titles don't play back properly in or do not encode properly to FLAC. The music is almost exclusively in the right channel, but just the music. I've seen this on a different retail Blu-ray (Scandinavian release of Werewolves Within), but it doesn't happen when I play the disc...

FLAC seems to have done the trick! I ripped The Killer (2022) last night and the track was over 3200 Kbps. I tested FLAC support on the Zidoo using that The Man from Nowhere (Ajeossi) with the wonky, low-bitrate track. It's a remux of the Russian release I have because my Well Go USA disc died of di...