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Ahhh yes... okay, yeah it's been a little while since I've been fully immersed in this, so apologies for the cobwebs in my brain.

Is it possible to share the FW version that I need to cross-flash for this device? And I would need to use SDFtool flasher right?

Yes, I am familiar with UHD (I have a WH16NS60 that I have previously flashed to read UHDs). I think I misunderstood some posts I had read and thought that Pioneer drives did not need to be flashed to a LibreDrive firmware. Clearly I was wrong and stupid. :) Thanks again for answering my dumb questi...

Thank you for the reply. I will post the info when the drive is received! Out of curiosity, what is the benefit of flashing a different firmware if the drive is compatible with MakeMKV out of the box?

Greetings! I recently purchased a Pioneer BDR-212BK. In reading through forum posts, it appears that there is no need to flash a LibreDrive firmware to this drive, as it should be fully compatible with MakeMKV right out of the box - is that correct? Even if that is correct though, is there still a r...

Thanks! Looks kinda tricky, but I'll give it a shot!

I'm trying to write a quick 'n dirty .bat file that will detect the filename of an mkv file in a directory and automatically insert that name into the .bat file (am piping the .mkv through ffmpeg). The .bat file will be in my path so that I can use it in any directory. Does anyone know how to do this?

Well, I'm back again after some noodling around on this. But I think this question is easy - if I encode the file that MakeMKV produces (with the EL) is the resulting file going to be larger than encoding an HEVC file without the EL? Out of curiosity, I demuxed the file x265 produced after encoding ...

Got it. That all makes sense. One last question (I swear!) - should I be encoding the file MakeMKV produces, or the HEVC file with a discarded EL?

I really appreciate your assistance and patience handling my annoying questions. So would a more efficient workflow be: MakeMKV -> dovi_tool convert -m 2 --discard (is the discard necessary?) -> Feed resulting HEVC file and RPU to x265? Is there a difference between using mkvextract to demux the HEV...

Okay, arg, I have one more question for you - not actually related to the OP (but I can hijack my own thread, right? :) Is it not necessary to demux a single track dual layer DV file before encoding it in x265? I can simply extract and convert the RPU to 8.1? Does it matter whether it is an FEL or M...

Thanks for your assistance, and the fantastic tools.

Okay, let me make sure I'm following then. If I'm going to crop, the workflow should be: MakeMKV -> dovi_tool extract-rpu -m 2 --crop -> x265 Is this correct? I guess I'm' sort of hijacking my own thread, but I'm wondering if I can change my workflow even if I'm not planning to crop. Currently, I us...

Thanks for the reply! Am wondering when to use --crop in my workflow. I normally demux the BL and EL, convert to 8.1, and then extract the 8.1 RPU with dovi_tool. Would I use --crop when extracting the new RPU?

It was my understanding that one should not crop video with dynamic metadata during an x265 encode. I noticed there was a recent update to dovi_tool that seems to allow for cropping. Is that the case, or am I misunderstanding?

Okay, and one more question. :) It seems the file I've created (muxed everything into a .ts file) does actually play on my Firestick 4k. I am playing it on a Samsung television so I presume I'm seeing the HDR10+, but I actually don't know how to verify that. I assume the issue is that if I were play...