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by wmcclain
Tue Jul 01, 2025 11:31 am
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: VLC Player: Keystrokes for Zoom?
Replies: 5
Views: 422

Re: VLC Player: Keystrokes for Zoom?

I don't know of any and searching doesn't find a solution, so I suspect it is not possible.
by wmcclain
Mon Jun 30, 2025 3:53 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: VLC Player: Keystrokes for Zoom?
Replies: 5
Views: 422

Re: VLC Player: Keystrokes for Zoom?

Here is what grok has to say: The issue you're describing with VLC Media Player's zoom function—where it changes the window size but doesn't enlarge the image within the window—can often be addressed by using VLC's **Interactive Zoom** feature or other methods to magnify a specific portion of the vi...
by wmcclain
Mon Jun 30, 2025 3:16 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: VLC Player: Keystrokes for Zoom?
Replies: 5
Views: 422

Re: VLC Player: Keystrokes for Zoom?

As said in the discussion, it will zoom smaller window sizes to larger but stops when you reach full screen. If you start at full screen it does not change the window.

I'm guessing you want the image zoomed within a full screen window, but it doesn't seem to do that.
by wmcclain
Sat Apr 19, 2025 12:08 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: MakeMKV above v1.17.7 still broken on Linux
Replies: 12
Views: 7936

Re: MakeMKV above v1.17.7 still broken on Linux

Really? I'll try that after the next update if it is still not working. Thanks.
by wmcclain
Mon Apr 07, 2025 8:40 pm
Forum: Blu-ray discs
Topic: In-video text being removed
Replies: 2
Views: 911

Re: In-video text being removed

MakeMKV cannot remove hard-coded subtitles, or make any other changes to the image.

Handbrake will burn the subtitles into the image, at the cost of a little processing time.
by wmcclain
Wed Mar 12, 2025 9:35 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: No menu / credits / small videos
Replies: 1
Views: 5587

Re: No menu / credits / small videos

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.
by wmcclain
Fri Feb 21, 2025 8:11 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: 1.17.8 hangs when trying to read from brand new Asus SDW-06D2X
Replies: 8
Views: 9529

Re: 1.17.8 hangs when trying to read from brand new Asus SDW-06D2X

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.
by wmcclain
Wed Nov 27, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Buying makemkv and linux?
Replies: 5
Views: 2197

Re: Buying makemkv and linux?

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.
by wmcclain
Mon May 13, 2024 5:03 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Linux mint 21.3 need help adding MakeMKV to system
Replies: 2
Views: 10824

Re: Linux mint 21.3 need help adding MakeMKV to system

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...
by wmcclain
Sun May 12, 2024 1:53 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Naming Files in Linux
Replies: 1
Views: 5519

Re: Naming Files in Linux

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?
by wmcclain
Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:11 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Old ccextractor version
Replies: 1
Views: 5622

Re: Old ccextractor version

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
by wmcclain
Sat Apr 20, 2024 7:25 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: Can rewritable DVD's have copy-protection?
Replies: 10
Views: 6808

Re: Can rewritable DVD's have copy-protection?

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...
by wmcclain
Sat Apr 20, 2024 3:29 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: Can rewritable DVD's have copy-protection?
Replies: 10
Views: 6808

Re: Can rewritable DVD's have copy-protection?

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 ...
by wmcclain
Sat Apr 20, 2024 2:08 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: Can rewritable DVD's have copy-protection?
Replies: 10
Views: 6808

Re: Can rewritable DVD's have copy-protection?

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.