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Oh wow, awesome! Looks like I have a new movie-ripping process now.

Sorry to long to respond, I got distracted.... Smithcraft: oh! I didn't realize you could make smaller MKV files. What's the best way to do that? Can I do that in MakeMKV or Handbrake? (I'd prefer to do it in MakeMKV...saves a step.) I dunno, I imagine Hollywood as pretty ding-dang evil (way beyond ...

Woodstock, you are a fount of knowledge. :) My husband suggested that I make TWO mp4s...one with the subtitles burned in and one without. I am pondering doing that, even though it would be a pain in the tush, because it would still take less hard drive space than keeping everything in MKV format. Ei...

OK, since I'm now bored ripping the file, I'll detail the continuing saga (in case anyone following needs it). So, I had ProcMon AND Resource Manager running while I went through the movie on fast forward. At first I was following Resource Manager (following on the CPU tab, since the Disk tab wouldn...

OK, now my husband is into the act of trying to figure this out too. We've done a lot of googling, and so far it looks like the best (and perhaps only) way to figure this out is to pull up ProcMon or Resource Manager and then, with the movie in fast forward in the player, write down each m2ts file a...

I was like, "why didn't I notice that before?" But then I tried it. According to evil Resource Manager, there is NO disk activity on the F:\ drive while I'm watching the movie through PowerDVD 14. PowerDVD isn't even listed in the processes with disk activity.

Grrr, Hollywood!

That is frustrating and confusing. I searched for good BD playback software. Downloaded and tried pot player, didn't work on Mockingjay. already had vlc, it wouldn't work either. So I looked at trials for SlySoft AnyDVD HD, but the trial wouldn't update the codecs so it wouldn't work. So then I trie...

Argh, sneaky!! Lousy mega-millionaire media companies trying to cheat me out of the $30 I spent on their movie! My BD drive didn't come with 'real' BD playback software. Is there a really good one out there (preferably free, but I'll pay a little to avoid this problem in the future) that I can downl...

I have had this problem with a few BDs, including Frozen and, just now, Mockingjay Part 1. I don't remember all the details with Frozen, but for Mockingjay, there were literally HUNDREDS of identical files, all saying they were English, all the same size. I didn't want to look at the properties of e...