www.makemkv.com

This quick How-To will show you how to create a manageable sized MKV file for your Blu-Ray rips, complete with subtitles that will work great in any player you throw them at.

Many Blu-Ray disks do not hard-code any subtitles (Avatar and Kill Bill Vol. 1 come to mind), rather they do very fancy ...

skittle@Skittle-PC:~/Download$ md5sum makemkv_v1.5.5_beta_oss.tar.gz
3847a502e88a88c604337e52ef9c3732 makemkv_v1.5.5_beta_oss.tar.gz

sent pm with link

Thank you so much! Everything's workin' like a charm now, I'll go back and edit my original post with the useful data from this.

Again, big ...

something wrong with your download then:
skittle@Skittle-PC:~$ md5sum makemkv_v1.5.5_beta_bin.tar.gz
1ab84a65f5712207bbf7b5f0172f840f makemkv_v1.5.5_beta_bin.tar.gz

download 1 second ago ;)

skittle@Skittle-PC:~$ tar -xvzf makemkv_v1.5.5_beta_bin.tar.gz
makemkv_v1.5.5_beta_bin/
makemkv_v1.5.5 ...

Yes, the link still says 1.5.4, but just download 1.5.5 manually:

also,:

cat ~/source/makemkv/makemkv_v1.5.5_beta_bin/makefile.linux
...
ifeq ($(ARCH),x86_64)
ARCH=amd64
ARCH_OK=1
endif
...



skittle@Skittle-PC:~/source/makemkv/makemkv_v1.5.5_beta_bin/bin$ ls
amd64 i386


please dont spout ...

EDIT: Thanks to skittle, everything's working great on this side. A little help for those also getting bad downloads:
makemkv_v1.5.5_beta_bin.tar.gz MD5: 1ab84a65f5712207bbf7b5f0172f840f
makemkv_v1.5.5_beta_oss.tar.gz MD5: 3847a502e88a88c604337e52ef9c3732

Thanks again, skittle!

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