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Just closing the loop here. I can confirm the issue was with my Blu-ray drive (a cheap piece of junk somebody bought for me during their visit to China). I bought a real Blu-ray drive and then everything worked just fine with MakeMKV.

Sorry for the late reply - been debugging this for a while. I tried many things (including using multiple discs and an Intel Mac mini into which I installed a Blu-ray drive). I think the issue is with my external Blu-ray drive (Pioneer BD-RW BDR-TD04). The Blu-ray discs all seem to work in the Mac m...

I just came here to find the solution because I'm having the same issue i.e. the disc simply will not load. I thought the issue might be due to the ARM architecture - I just bought a new M1 Mac mini (my first non-Intel machine) and finished loading it up with applications and now makemkv can't load ...

I did not use MakeMKV to rip the dvd - I used MacDVDRipper Pro (or MDRP) to decrypt and extract the main movie while maintaining the original format (VIDEO_TS folder). Been doing that for around 15 years. I didn't want to alter the bits in the movie until years down the road when a worthy enough com...

I have a further thought about this, given that for the same input VIDEO_TS file structure MakeMKV yields audio/video sync issues when creating an MKV but HandBrake doesn't when compressing and converting to MKV. The sync issue in MakeMKV certainly doesn't happen all the time, but I do see it about ...

Yes - I've run the Windows versions of MKVToolnix and MakeMKV in a virtual machine on my Mac also yielding sync issues. Rather than addressing that thread in this thread, I'll make a separate post in the A/V sync thread in an attempt to elicit a response there.

Theoretically one could make a .mkv from a DVD with MakeMKV, extract the subtitles with mkvextract from the .mkv file, manipulate them as necessary and mux them back into the .mkv file, ya? I don't see a reason why it wouldn't work, I prefer to use MKVCleaver instead, though. Honestly, I don't thin...

I use a Mac as well. The MKVToolNix tools do work on a Mac and are maintained. I think BDSup2Sub has a Mac version according to their Github page: https://github.com/mjuhasz/BDSup2Sub/wiki/Download MKVToolNix does NOT support ANY subtitles at all in VOB structures - they are all ignored and do not ...

If you make a .mkv file from a DVD that included one's relevant subtitle tracks… could you use mkvextract to get the subtitle track out and into BDSup2Sub to extract just the forced bits and then mux that back into the original .mkv? Is the only thing Vsrip brings is the ability to extract subtitle...

I wonder if you could download a forced subtitle only track for some (maybe even many) of your DVDs? That might make things a little easier. Yea - that's an even worse can of worms. There are many, many bad downloadable subtitle files out there with no reliable way of picking out the good ones. Oth...

For DVDs the issue is messier than BDs in that DVDs utilize two different ways to deal with forced subtitles - they can either be in their own track, or suitably tagged and embedded in a fixed language subtitle track. The information is also spread across a couple files (VOB and IFO). Yes it's a has...

Thanks for your response. There are definitely players out there that, with No Subtitles selected during playback, will show only the forced subtitles in a VIDEO_TS structure. Apple's DVD Player does it, 5kPlayer also does, VLC on the Mac doesn't but I heard VLC on Windows does. So I guess what I'm ...

I have many ripped DVDs (in VIDEO_TS/VOB format) for which I want to make an mkv that only includes subtitles that makes sense for an English speaking viewer i.e. if the movie is fully in English then I don't want any subtitles and if the movie has a few segments where a foreign language is spoken t...

Sorry for the long delay in getting back to this. I'm on a Mac so VobBlanker isn't going to work for me. Additionally it's abandonware and the last version is from back in 2007. I don't know what a PTS is (although I'd guess that the TS bit is Time Stamp). That being said, if the VOB has some kind o...

I have thousands of VOB movies and TV episodes to convert to MKV and the only effective way is to do this in a script, hence the need for makemkvcon. Here's my wishlist: 1. I only care about forced subtitles in English e.g. when two Russians are talking to each other in an English spy movie. However...