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So what IS the current key?

The “newest” key I could find was good only until Jan ‘25. I was willing to shell out the $60, but I read that someone did that and still couldn’t get it to run so I set my clock back. This works!

You wrote: “ You need to select Computer and then go to where the drives are mounted (probably /media or /mnt).”.
That’s what I’m trying, but the drives do not show up, unlike they do when I’m simply using a file finder. Maybe my version of Makemkv needs some tweaking whatever that might be.

I have a collection of movies in .iso form. Because they are large files I keep them on an external hard drive. I know how to use Makemkv to turn them into .mkv files. My problem is locating them. How do I locate them using the file finder icon? The drives don’t show up like they do from my Linux fi...

Thanks, but I had already checked the FAQ and not finding what I need I wrote the post.
In the meantime I had great success using Handbrake so I no longer need another program. Incidentally, Handbrake is free.

Yesterday I was able to try makeMKV for the first time. I had tried running it from a linux software installation on my Thinkpad T-61 running Linux Mate 20.3 without success. I did some research and found an alternate way to install it via the command line. I have more questions about it but today i...