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thanks for sharing! In my case it's definitely not a USB power issue, since my issue is with ripping from an ISO image, not a BR drive! I've had good luck falling back to 1.16.4

same here! Freeze (even the mouse cursor), purple screen flashing and then reboot!
running makeMkv 1.16.7 on macOS Monterey 12.3.1 on a 2021 imac (with M1).