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That's a shame, but thanks again for the feedback skittle.

All progressing well now - Gladiator and a number of other 'problem' BDs now successfully encoded to MP4. So thanks again for the help. Having a problem with the following: - The rip goes fine, but Plex doesn't seem to recognize it as a video and only plays the audio track. It hangs handbrake's scan...

Success! :D I've re-ripped Gladiator using 1.5.8 with all subtitles switched off. I haven't yet done the actual encode with handbrake, but it successfully finds and scans the one title returning the correct duration. I've usually found if I can get this far then all will turn out okay. I'll re-rip s...

After some research I went for a Sony BD-5730S 6x Internal Slimline SATA Blu-Ray BD Writer plus an Akasa Slimline USB drive enclose. The combo works perfectly with both OS X 10.5 and Windows 7. The Akasa enclose has a great high quality look and feel for the price. Anyone UK based can buy here: - ht...

Thanks for pointing me in the direction of the temporary key! Thanks too for the info regarding the Windows version and other tools. Below is the MediaInfo output for three BDs - Gladiator, The Dark Knight and Ocean's Eleven. Gladiator carries a universal region code, neither of the other two are ma...

I have a trial version of MakeMKV and have been using it to great effect with a range of commercial Blu-rays. I've managed to successfully convert around 90% of the discs I've tried so far. Generally I find the quality of the resulting MKV files to be excellent. Whilst I would like to keep a selecti...