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You mean you can't rip them due to the encryption, not the decryption.

You could try running AnyDVD in the background, but I see of no reason why those particular discs should have trouble. Enable debug message logging and post the results here when your rip fails.

Here's a comment: Try waiting more than half an hour before you complain that people aren't helping. We don't all work for you.

I can't speak to any specific cross-platform software, since I deal primarily with Windows, but I've used xVid4PSP to re-encode some videos to a lower file size.

As I'm sure you've discovered, there's no way to FULLY preserve the quality of an HD movie while keep the file size manageable. Think of it like ripping a CD to mp3 format--you're trading some audio fidelity/quality for a much smaller file size. Regardless, this tradeoff is acceptable to most people...

MakeMKV will not do any transcoding to your source material, so the original audio/video is not compressed in any way. If the source video is indeed 38GB in size, you'll see a similarly-sized MKV outputted from MakeMKV. I haven't used WMC (I used VLC Player which works fine with MKV files), but you ...

If you're going to use it for a handful of DVDs/Blurays, then yes, maybe $50 is too much. If, like me, you have several hundred discs to convert, then $50 isn't a bad price. It's pretty cynical to accuse someone who has provided this software over the course of the past year+ FOR FREE of being greed...

And thank you for your service to my country. Ooh-rah!

I don't think $50 is unreasonable, especially considering it will provide for a never-expiring registration code. Amortize $50 over the number of DVDs and Blurays that you'll convert with this software, and you'll see it's a very fair price.

MakeMKV isn't for burning DISCS, it's for creating an MKV container with the original MPEG video and audio tracks from a DVD (or BluRay). There are plenty of programs available to burn DVDs for you. Whether it will be playable in your DVD is dependent on your brand of DVD player and the format the v...

The software is still in BETA. There is no registration code to get. If your trial expires, just install a new BETA version. Program is time-limited -- it will stop functioning after 60 days. You can always download the latest version from makemkv.com that will reset the expiration date. (http://www...

thanks for the pointers guys. just to clarify (I should have said this initially), I'm mkv-ing a DVD, not a bluray. Does the same still apply i.e. it's a VOBSUB/IDX issue? Correct. The Popcorn Hour firmware to support vobsub/idx subtitles embedded within MKVs has been in BETA testing since about Fe...

The Popcorn Hour has never supported VOBSUB/IDX subtitles embedded within an MKV. This is a well known and not related to MakeMKV.

Did you even read Bling2Ming's reply? Your Windows OS is using a Fat32 file system which cannot handle files over 4GB in size. If your first DVD was converted successfully, it's probably because it was under 4GB in size, or you saved it to an NTFS partition.

Thanks for the information. It makes sense that the different containers would have different "overhead", but I find it hard to believe that there's a 40% reduction in space on a Blu-ray MKV vs. TS or M2TS. As for audio/video sync problems, I've thankfully not run into this problem with my...

On the " About MKV " page of the web site, it states that MKV files are compact. For exactly the same content MKV files are about 10% smaller then DVD files and roughly 40% smaller then Blu-ray files. How is this determined? Especially in the case of Blu-ray files. The program doesn't re-e...