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On DVD some short segments and the menus themselves are stored in special menu videos which MakeMKV cannot see. I don't recall other software being able to do it either.

Same here. 1.17.8 and .9 hang when trying open both Blu-ray and DVD discs. I'm not using UHD.

This is with both a SATA ASUS drive and and a USB Pioneer.

1.17.7 works.

Which distribution of linux? Arch has the binaries in its AUR library. Other distributions might have something similar.

I used to compile it; it's not difficult.

The official build instructions are here: https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224 Are people saying that doesn't work? I used to do it quite often but now on Arch Linux I use the version in the user repository. It doesn't look like Mint has this in their repository. So I would bu...

I may not be understanding.

You have a list of titles on the left. Click on one and there is a "Properties" selection on the right. One of the properties is "File name".

Does it work differently on Windows?

I'm using ccextractor 0.94 on Arch linux. Like MakeMKV itself, it comes from the AUR user-supported repository.

I don't think ccextractor is packaged with MakeMKV here.

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/makemkv
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ccextractor

It is technically not possible to have CSS on burnable media. I don't know what the others are. The owners have calculated a trade-off: how much do we lose by piracy vs what is the advantage of keeping these titles in print (on demand)? The ones I have seen are all deep catalog and classics. Probabl...

For items picked up from ebay, etc: it is hard. You can look for clues in the quality of the disc label or box art, but those can be expertly duplicated. I had a bootleg where the file dates were way too recent, the dual layer original had been compressed to one layer, and the audio codecs were non ...

The big studios do produced DVD-R discs. They do not have CSS copy protection. I've gotten a few dual layer DVDs and a small number of burned Blu-rays.

This is their "manufactured on demand" effort.

Scanning my notes: Warner, Sony, Fox, MGM, TCM, Universal have all done it.

I've seen those messages for years and they have caused no problems for me.

DVDs are not always authored with care and you sometimes see strange errors.

Are you using:

Preferences -> IO -> Ask for single drive mode

I'm using Arch with makemkv installed from the AUR repository. I use both SATA and USB Blu-ray drives. I don't recall any specific setup required. Could be a module or group permissions error? Do other applications see the drive? It mounts discs and the contents are visible? If there is anything you...

Many people do this, the HTPC = "Home Theater Computer" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Htpc). The task is much simplified if you are interested in only locally stored files: you don't have to worry about a tuner or recording capability. Kodi is a popular free system that will catalog and p...

I've had this for years. I have not had to power off to recover for a long time, but optical drives on Linux do seem to get wedged into error states where it will not give up the disc even when no one wants it loaded. Hitting the physical eject button repeatedly seems to help. Eventually. I've also ...

It is a great day when your downloaded srt file fits the video perfectly the first time. For all other days, I use a bash command-line script: https://github.com/helixarch/subedit It has many modes but I find "-a" the most useful. Play the video and note the timestamps of the first and las...