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you might have a thumbnail provider for video files, they usually just take one random frame from the video. The image file in the cover would always be the same.

It is usually a cover image, which is e.g. shown in Windows File Explorer when thumbnails are shown for video files.

Little detail: CSS protection will be removed upon backup.

I can confirm, that MakeMKV has no problems with RipGuard or ARccOS. I myself had many DVDs (on BluRays there is no such copy protection) with that and MakeMKV read them without problems. As much as I know, e.g. RipGuard has a certain string in the first sectors of the discs sectors, thus MakeMKV kn...

For preservation you can use DiscImageCreator or Redumper like the ReDump project does: http://wiki.redump.org/index.php?title=Dumping_Guides

I don't think, it is upon MakeMKVs target to do such a thing.

Does it happen with the/a previous version?

https://makemkv.com/download/old/

and makemkv proposes to rip all 5 of them, however if i "enlarge" one title by clicking upon it, it proposes (so it seems) to rip only the Audio section, and Video is not checkmarked; This is not correct. The video part is always ripped. you just cannot see or remove the checkmark for it....

I'm currently using an ASUS BW-16D1HT with the patched firmware and having some trouble with a few UHD discs I have the same drive and recently several Triple Layer UHDs aren't recognized from the drive. So this happens. Some say, crossflashing can help. For me it didn't with all discs. So I bought...

This is probably the reason, why only now Pioneers can be patched. If this would have been done earlier, Pioneer might have programmed additional protections into the firmware. Now they can't do that anymore.

... unselect non-MVC video tracks when a MVC track is available Why would you do that? You need the Normal video track and the MVC track for being able to have a 3D file afterwards. Both parts have different angles of the video for the 3D effect to work. If you just rip one, then you don't have 3D ...

I don't know for sure, but maybe VLC automatically issues some tonemapping if it finds a HDR source with a non-HDR display.

The main movie is cut into many small pieces. where is that a problem if you just let MakeMKV make a single MKV file out of them? Actually you can do so with just any video on the disc, then you wouldn't need the menus anymore. Yes, it's work to do, once. But then you have files like Sonic the Hedg...

But, Imgburn program converts the ripped files and folders directly as a iso file again, and you can play it in VLC. You can play the folder with VLC as well, so why make it into an ISO? Just go to Open Media -> Disc -> Blu-ray and there you enter the path to the directory, where the BDMV directory...

Animated movies usually compress rather well, so even with 3840x2160 pixels it could very well be this size.

If you still have the AACS directory, then it is an encrypted backup I assume? Anyway, when I want to play a BluRay/UHD backup with VLC, I press Ctrl+D for the Open Device window, go to Disc, select BluRay and the browse to the folder, where the BDMV directory is inside (aka what would be the root d...