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by keithhelms
Sun Jan 22, 2023 4:34 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Selecting the verson of java from the command line
Replies: 1
Views: 2147

Re: Selecting the verson of java from the command line

The default version of java is decided by your path setting. if you enter "echo $PATH" you'll see that one of the directories in the list is /usr/bin. If you want makemkvcon to find a different version of java when you run it, you need to change the path so that it looks somewhere else fir...
by keithhelms
Sun Jul 24, 2022 1:40 am
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: Fake Titles often Real
Replies: 1
Views: 2261

Fake Titles often Real

I've been going through several TV series on DVD and some of them have copy protection such that the duration of a title is incorrect. MakeMKV drops those titles and logs that they were fake. If I run the disc through WinX DVD Ripper and have it copy the DVD directories to disc it fixes that problem...
by keithhelms
Sun Jul 03, 2022 6:47 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: New error with 1.17.0
Replies: 1
Views: 2588

New error with 1.17.0

I've been using dvdbackup on Linux to copy dvds to the hard drive then running makemkv to extract titles from the vobs. Before 1.17.0 I got a lot of corrupt data found errors on some discs. 1.17.0 seems to work a lot better, but on a couple of discs I get a new error and makemkvcon seems to stop run...
by keithhelms
Mon Jul 12, 2021 8:49 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Random bug in makemkvcon file extracts
Replies: 0
Views: 3257

Random bug in makemkvcon file extracts

I've been copying DVDs to the hard drive using a Linux program called dvdbackup. I then run a script which calls makemkvcon to create mkv files from the copied dvd directory. It executes makemkvcon for each title which I want to copy. The makemkvcon command randomly fails to copy a title and gives t...
by keithhelms
Sun Feb 28, 2021 3:19 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: Extract PGS Subtitles for Editing
Replies: 5
Views: 12827

Re: Extract PGS Subtitles for Editing

I have a script that converts pgs (bluray) format subtitles to vobsub (dvd). It uses mkvextract to pull the subtitles out mkvextract -q tracks "$inputmkv" ${tracknbr}:"subtitle${tracknbr}.sup" and then uses bdsub2sub to convert them java -jar ~/download/BDSup2Sub512.jar -o "...
by keithhelms
Fri Feb 05, 2021 3:08 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Linux /snap install
Replies: 4
Views: 11290

Re: Linux /snap install

One annoying feature of Ubuntu snaps is that they are sandboxed, which limits what directories you can use with those applications. I ran into the same problem with the Chromium browser which would not let me select other mount points to save a download into. In order to change that you would have t...
by keithhelms
Sun Jan 24, 2021 5:36 pm
Forum: LibreDrive drives
Topic: Remove LibreDrive firmware and revert to stock?
Replies: 2
Views: 6668

Remove LibreDrive firmware and revert to stock?

I have an LG WH16NS40 that I bought last year which came with the 1.04 firmware. I flashed it with the WH16NS60 1.02 LibreDrive enabled firmware from this site. Since then it has been unstable. I can rip one or two discs and then it throws errors on the next disc and I have to power cycle my system ...
by keithhelms
Tue Jan 19, 2021 7:17 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Ubuntu makemkv...no 'ccextractor'?! No way to uncheck.
Replies: 2
Views: 6573

Re: Ubuntu makemkv...no 'ccextractor'?! No way to uncheck.

On my Ubuntu install, ccextractor is blank. I'd suggest selecting Expert Mode on the General tab, then go to the Advanced tab and erase whatever is in the ccextractor executable location.
by keithhelms
Mon Jan 18, 2021 12:11 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Limit error retries
Replies: 4
Views: 6229

Re: Limit error retries

It looks to be set to 5 by default. Is that "per bad sector"? If there's a problem where the computer and drive are not talking correctly, wouldn't that mean makemkv just moves from sector to sector and retries all of them 5 times? Every once in a while I get errors like this: MSG:2003,0,3...
by keithhelms
Sun Jan 17, 2021 5:41 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Limit error retries
Replies: 4
Views: 6229

Limit error retries

Is there any setting to limit the number/time makemkv will retry when getting a drive error? I've run into a couple of those scsi errors recently and it seems like makemkv just keeps trying over and over again. That can't be good for the drive.
by keithhelms
Wed Jan 13, 2021 12:29 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Does Integration Circumvent Region-locking, or Just Encryption?
Replies: 1
Views: 4310

Re: Does Integration Circumvent Region-locking, or Just Encryption?

Yeah, VLC still gripes if the region code doesn't match, but with Makemkv as the AACS driver you can get around it without changing the code in your drive. In VLC go to tools->preferences and select show settings all at the bottom. On the scrollable list of options on the left select Input Codecs->A...
by keithhelms
Tue Jan 12, 2021 1:03 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: I wrote a bash script for automated, parallelized ripping
Replies: 4
Views: 10000

Re: I wrote a bash script for automated, parallelized ripping

My first question would be, why is your wrapper script copying the Makemkv license into the config file? You should only have to do that once. Second question, where did you come up with the 1GB of storage for a blu ray and 500MB for a DVD? Makemkv just copies the data as is and, as far as I could s...
by keithhelms
Fri Jan 08, 2021 8:22 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Question to all: MakeMKV without GUI, console only
Replies: 39
Views: 82141

Re: Question to all: MakeMKV without GUI, console only

I use makemkvcon in a set of scripts that allow me to specify which titles to extract, and for each of those which audio tracks and which subtitle tracks. My scripts extract the title and then pass it to either handbrakecli or ffmpeg to transcode to x264 or x265. I write a control file for each disk...
by keithhelms
Fri Jan 08, 2021 7:55 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Playlist that is not equal is being dropped
Replies: 11
Views: 15419

Re: Playlist that is not equal is being dropped

My personal workaround was that I discovered the m2ts files that were lost when the supposedly duplicate playlist was dropped were also in separate titles all by themselves. I modified my script that sits on top of makemkvcon to set the minimum title length to 0, extract those separate titles and th...
by keithhelms
Tue May 19, 2020 6:29 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Direct blu ray playback minimum title length
Replies: 1
Views: 5502

Re: Direct blu ray playback minimum title length

Well, it's not quite set at 120 seconds. For the disc I'm currently working on, vlc lists titles that are 1:32 and 1:37 (92 and 97 seconds), but not ones that are 1:06 (66 seconds) and shorter. Is this a vlc "feature" or is this something MakeMKV is doing?