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by tomty89
Thu Jun 04, 2026 5:21 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: How to rip widescreen when DVD defaults to full screen
Replies: 5
Views: 367

Re: How to rip widescreen when DVD defaults to full screen

If it is really pan and scan (i.e. the "scan" is not always the center part of the widescreen version), then it's probably "implemented" with multi-angle. I have no actual experience with multi-angle DVD but I do know that they exist. It's just that I never thought that it would ...
by tomty89
Wed Jun 03, 2026 11:55 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: How to rip widescreen when DVD defaults to full screen
Replies: 5
Views: 367

Re: How to rip widescreen when DVD defaults to full screen

First time I heard of such thing. Assuming the film is originally widescreen as usual, does the "fullscreen version/mode" look "squeezed" or cropped? (Assuming it's not the other way round -- that the "widescreen version/mode" is just a cropped fullscreen "fattened...
by tomty89
Tue Jun 02, 2026 10:26 am
Forum: LibreDrive drives
Topic: SDF update November 2025
Replies: 188
Views: 259320

Re: SDF update November 2025

Drive platform: Pioneer RS8F01 Firmware version: ID83 Btw, is this one of those BDR-212UHBK from/for the Japan market instead of BDR-212UBK? EDIT: Ahh looks like my guess is correct: https://www.cdrinfo.pl/artykuly/artykulPioneerBDR212S12X12English/ P.S. Btw the firmware (updater that includes the ...
by tomty89
Tue Jun 02, 2026 3:07 am
Forum: LibreDrive drives
Topic: Pioneer BDR-212Us on 1.04 are broken in MakeMKV
Replies: 1
Views: 190

Re: Pioneer BDR-212Us on 1.04 are broken in MakeMKV

For the problem of 1.17.6/7+ not working with a non-LibreDrive (on Linux), the best workaround is probably the sdf_Stop setting. See e.g. https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=41692 Your drive happen to have firmware that is not (considered as) LibreDrive. Somehow only 1.01 and 1.0...
by tomty89
Sat May 30, 2026 7:54 pm
Forum: UHD drives
Topic: SDFtool Flasher
Replies: 1722
Views: 2599634

Re: SDFtool Flasher

So it looks like the seller lied about updating the drives to firmware version 3.0. It doesn't matter. If you want UHD support you need MT1959 (although AFAIK there's no 3.xx firmware for MT1939 either). But more confusingly this says it is drive platform MT1959 What are you referring to by "t...
by tomty89
Fri May 29, 2026 5:04 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Files integrity
Replies: 5
Views: 461

Re: Files integrity

It's still somewhat strange and suspicious (even though I know this "double-gzip'ing" issue has happend before), especially when it didn't happen when the version was first released but after such a long time.
by tomty89
Thu May 28, 2026 9:06 pm
Forum: LibreDrive drives
Topic: Drive Recommendations for Noob Not Concerned w/UHD
Replies: 5
Views: 900

Re: Drive Recommendations for Noob Not Concerned w/UHD

Makemkv currently doesn't have a host certificate that works with discs later than MKBv81...When combined with the public MKBv82 device keys, libredrives can still update the latest keydb database using software like SamuriHL's Keydb Tool . This way you won't need to submit a dump of your MKBv82 bl...
by tomty89
Thu May 28, 2026 8:23 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Files integrity
Replies: 5
Views: 461

Re: Files integrity

is it just mistake and admin forget to update No, unless the files were for reasons changed very recently without getting a version bump. The checksums in the txt are the same one in https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=makemkv&id=f50faf9f9bab163ce1342474ff4c1c6d7b178478. It has bee...
by tomty89
Thu May 28, 2026 1:26 am
Forum: UHD drives
Topic: Ultimate UHD Drives Flashing Guide Updated 2026
Replies: 3824
Views: 7548785

Re: Ultimate UHD Drives Flashing Guide Updated 2026

I suspect it's because when the author claims UHD support, they didn't consider bus encryption. (On the github repo, they list UHD support as "Native Support (without patched firmware)", which sounds to me that they didn't exactly "work on" anything regarding UHD support.) Maybe ...
by tomty89
Wed May 27, 2026 8:13 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: libmmbd integration with mpv
Replies: 29
Views: 2475

Re: libmmbd integration with mpv

No idea how the decryption of normal BDs works Technically it's somewhat a blackbox since that part of MakeMKV is not open-source. I think it essentially "emulates" a blu-ray player in the case of LibreDrive and calculates / derives the VUK as per how AACS "should work" -- excep...
by tomty89
Wed May 27, 2026 7:21 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: makemkv asks for key when run outside bash
Replies: 3
Views: 365

Re: makemkv asks for key when run outside bash

Well as I already mentioned, obviously you need HOME properly set to /root (assuming that's where you have .MakeMKV/settings.conf put). As per https://nginx.org/en/docs/ngx_core_module.html#env and https://ketzacoatl.github.io/posts/2017-03-04-lua-and-openresty-part-4-using-envvars.html, apparently ...
by tomty89
Wed May 27, 2026 7:20 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: makemkv asks for key when run outside bash
Replies: 3
Views: 365

Re: makemkv asks for key when run outside bash

No idea what's "openresty" but sounds like to me it's just that makemkvcon would be run as another user in that case and therefore reads a different .MakeMKV/setting from a different HOME (which is not /root).
by tomty89
Tue May 26, 2026 6:40 am
Forum: LibreDrive drives
Topic: Drive Recommendations for Noob Not Concerned w/UHD
Replies: 5
Views: 900

Re: Drive Recommendations for Noob Not Concerned w/UHD

For regular BDs (and DVDs) you don't even necessarily need LibreDrive (although it might smooth things out under circumstances). For non-Pioneer drives flashing is often for making a drive Libre, and LibreDrive is a requirement for UHD ripping. (Most if not all flashable models will support UHD once...
by tomty89
Mon May 25, 2026 9:17 pm
Forum: UHD discs
Topic: Read Errors and MKV Recommendation
Replies: 1
Views: 446

Re: Read Errors and MKV Recommendation

the MakeMKV error classification Hmm, what's that? Some AI response? The simple workaround is to copy all files from the disc to the hard drive manually, without MakeMKV running. If you succeed in this, there is a fast and simple way to convert such copy into encrypted MakeMKV backup I'm not so sur...
by tomty89
Mon May 25, 2026 8:41 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: libmmbd integration with mpv
Replies: 29
Views: 2475

Re: libmmbd integration with mpv

The options / tests are only meant for libmmbd. If LibreDrive not kicking in in time / bus encryption were really the culprit of the issue, libaacs will not work no matter how long you "wait" because it does not attempt to disable bus encryption anyway. (It would work only after you e.g. a...