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This somewhat incomprehensible message means "libfdk-aac is a static library, but you're linking it into a shared one: it needs to be either a shared library or compiled with -fPIC". It's probably easiest to install a shared libfdk-aac from your distro: it is usually available there as a s...

I think you want to use AV_PROFILE_UNKNOWN: FFM_PROFILE_UNKNOWN has a different value (even after allowing for signedness).

I see this too. It happens on distros like Nix (no relation to me :) ) where the makemkvcon and makemkv binaries are in different directories (usually with contents symlinked to /usr/bin). makemkv by default looks for the makemkvcon binary purely in the same directory as the makemkv binary, but can ...

--prefix affects where the program expects to find its files when it's invoked, not where the compiled objects go: it has never affected where builds are done. (It also affects where 'make install' installs the files, and it can be reset at install time to put them somewhere else, maybe for symlinki...

Probably you need to load the SCSI generic (sg) module.

It seems like OpenedFilesView ( https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/opened_files_view.html ) is a Windows program. MetalDave was asking about how to do it on a Mac. I'm multi-OS; I'm using Ubuntu right now to read this. :D That said, I'm curious to know a better process on any OS. Thank you to both dcoke...

Ah, that explains it. Older disks are probably formatted with one of the versions of the FAT filesystem which cannot handle files >2GiB in size: the main movie is almost certainly much bigger than that, so writing fails. (You'd usually get a truncated 2GiB file, though, not nothing.) Disks formatted...

I think this is sheer old age. I've had this drive since shortly after it went on sale (early 2010), and it was fine for about the first eight years, but since then has been failing like this more and more often. Repeated reinsertions often fix it, or a poweroff of the drive, but it's a right drag....

I cleaned the bd-disc with toothpaste - and the disc looks fine. !! Toothpaste contains abrasives and a fairly strong alkali. I'm not sure that hitting a transparent surface that must remain transparent to laser light at a microscopic level with an alkali abrasive is going to do it too much good...

I think this is sheer old age. I've had this drive since shortly after it went on sale (early 2010), and it was fine for about the first eight years, but since then has been failing like this more and more often. Repeated reinsertions often fix it, or a poweroff of the drive, but it's a right drag. ...

I've written my own scripting language, specifically tailored to transcoding discs into mkv files. My automation goals seem different than most. Most people seem interested in quickly and easily extracting or transcoding Blu-rays or DVDs into media files. I'm more interested in repeatability. I rea...

I've never bothered with HEVC because the rasbpi I play it back on can't do hardware HEVC decoding. (Also, the one time I tried to encode to it, it encoded at about .05 frames/second: thanks, but no thanks. Even QTGMC + TemporalDegrain2 manages 8 fps on my 10-core Broadwell.) Also... I'm fairly sure...

I thought I might as well jump in with a bunch of not-very-useful comments. I transcode using a... rather elaborately horrible organically-grown script that I pushed to https://github.com/nickalcock/copy-dvd-title literally seconds ago, so it is currently totally undocumented. It *does* let me (subj...

The Linux kernel fails to update the mounted device size. Insert DVD, eject, insert blu-ray, and linux kernel would still report 4GB size for an underlying block device. There is no stable repro, it just happens from time to time. MakeMKV reads inaccessible sectors using direct scsi commands, bypas...

However I recall in the news last week a critical vulnerability in Intel AMT / ME. My understanding is that the ME has access to everything including memory and is considered by many to be a dangerous back door. I wonder if it is related...the timing seems coincidental. There was a critical vulnera...