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What Billy said. VLC seems to default to region B if you don’t set it to something else.

I’ve hit a similar issue with those drives where they get confused until power is completely cut to them. So if it’s an internal, you’d need to turn the computer off and back on, not just reboot.

You don’t need to upgrade the software, it will pull down updates needed for decryption over the internet directly.

I’m deeply confused why you’d come to a forum for MakeMKV to try to find an alternative to that product?

Also, the trial keeps getting renewed, you just need to enter the new key…

Most likely the DVD is forcing one of the “normal” subtitle tracks on and using that for the alien subtitles. I don’t have the movie, so I unfortunately can’t tell you which it would be. In your example of German, I’d expect there to be two different subtitle tracks both labeled as German, and one w...

The Disc DB can help identify the special features: https://thediscdb.com/

Awesome. Thanks for being helpful! Sunoo take note. My apologies for not bending over backwards when you’ve provided nowhere near enough information. If you provided what movie you were trying to rip (which you still haven’t), people likely could have guided you as to which playlist to use. All we ...

Maybe you should tell us what you’re trying to rip then instead of forcing everyone to just make guesses until we happen to land on the right thing?

Depends on the film.

You’ve got a bootleg, the ANY! folder would have been created by AnyDVD.

I’m still on 1.17.3 because I didn’t bother upgrading yet.

I was able to successfully rip Casablanca 4K yesterday.

So the problem not existing on Windows is a limitation of Windows? That makes sense.

Sounds like you have your files named wrong.

MKVToolNix can split on chapter markers.