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by flojo
Thu Jun 19, 2025 10:41 pm
Forum: Drives for sale, Flashing Services, where to buy...
Topic: New old stock 2018 Pioneer BDR-S11JBK
Replies: 2
Views: 860

Re: New old stock 2018 Pioneer BDR-S11JBK

Ali Express ... will refund you if it turns out to be a fake... This is not an objective fact, it's 50/50 at best. AliExpress uses what e-bay uses which is what they both call "deliberation". The reality is that it's not deliberation but corporatism, meaning the burden of proof is solely ...
by flojo
Sat Jun 14, 2025 11:56 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Problems with slideshows
Replies: 7
Views: 15753

Re: Problems with slideshows

This was never a Matroska container problem, it's a player problem. Safest way is to copy the frame to duplicates in the quantity of $seconds * $framerate and join them back. I think you *might* be able to do this with ffmpeg in place, but dumping the frames to a bmp (or whatever) then globing them...
by flojo
Thu Jun 12, 2025 3:32 pm
Forum: UHD discs
Topic: Dolby Vision now possible through MP4 Mux.
Replies: 11091
Views: 7287000

Re: Dolby Vision now possible through MP4 Mux.

Are you all mainly looking for the ease of access to the titles? Using these planned obsolescence devices is not a wise decision, but I understand if the concern is mainly the ease of access to the titles, not the device or file properties. I feel like someone needs to keep reiterating to newer peop...
by flojo
Thu Jun 12, 2025 3:13 pm
Forum: UHD drives
Topic: All Pioneer drives will be LibreDrive supported
Replies: 109
Views: 39272

Re: All Pioneer drives will be LibreDrive supported

Lithium based products have taken over these applications almost entirely.
by flojo
Wed Jun 04, 2025 3:26 pm
Forum: UHD discs
Topic: Dolby Vision now possible through MP4 Mux.
Replies: 11091
Views: 7287000

Re: Dolby Vision now possible through MP4 Mux.

foxbat wrote:
Wed Jun 04, 2025 2:18 pm
They do not claim this anywhere.
I'm sorry, I thought you all were chatting about https://www.kaleidescape.com/ (which does state that). Which product are you all talking about?

https://www.kaleidescape.com/systems/mo ... s-servers/
by flojo
Wed Jun 04, 2025 2:02 pm
Forum: UHD discs
Topic: Dolby Vision now possible through MP4 Mux.
Replies: 11091
Views: 7287000

Re: Dolby Vision now possible through MP4 Mux.

Someone is for sure going to reverse engineer the Kaleidescape... Be careful, this is almost certainly a gimmick. Read the specs, or only the one spec of "every 4K movie available" in 192TB... yeah that's not happening. I'm older so I've seen these gimmick players come and go for over 25 ...
by flojo
Sat May 31, 2025 10:36 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Mac OS X
Topic: Bug allows MKV files with leading period or dot
Replies: 8
Views: 7201

Re: Bug allows MKV files with leading period or dot

It's trivial with BASH to remove the '.' character. I'm not sure which shell you're using, but you can execute BASH with the '-c' switch and pass just about any command.

Code: Select all

bash -c 'for i in .*; do mv "$i" "${i:1}"; done'
by flojo
Sat May 31, 2025 5:39 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: Rip to NAS or to PC first? How to multiple discs?
Replies: 11
Views: 3833

Re: Rip to NAS or to PC first? How to multiple discs?

Also consider setting up a dedicated PC as a storage solution as an alternative to a NAS. NAS enclosures are surprisingly costly these days, unaffordably so. 3D printer is the answer. You can download CAD files and send them to places like jlc3dp.com and come out a couple hundred USD ahead. I have ...
by flojo
Fri May 30, 2025 7:55 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: Identifying Episodes after conversion to mkv
Replies: 5
Views: 828

Re: Identifying Episodes after conversion to mkv

I've labeled a few series' by using the seconds of rips found on the internet, but it's hit or miss (50/50) because some things you download have the production cards or color bars or something edited out, even if it's a "Remux". However, I believe Twin Peaks downloaded "Remuxes"...
by flojo
Thu May 29, 2025 7:15 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Mac OS X
Topic: 3D blu-ray to .iso?
Replies: 4
Views: 1465

Re: 3D blu-ray to .iso?

... rip with makemkv "backup disk" and then convert it to .iso with ImgBurn? Yes, rip with MakeMKV then use imgburn. Yes you put all the files from the root of the disc to the root of the image. I *think* only DVDFab will save directly to a .iso. Obviously if the files required to run the...
by flojo
Thu May 29, 2025 7:06 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: Identifying Episodes after conversion to mkv
Replies: 5
Views: 828

Re: Identifying Episodes after conversion to mkv

With a little bit of scripting you might be able to match them based on $SECONDS, but the tough part might be finding a source online that stores the seconds (not just minutes) of each episode which can also be scraped via wget/curl to get the JSON/CSV/etc. I could post here a JSON for the episodes ...
by flojo
Mon May 26, 2025 2:31 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: BD Drive for non UHD Ripping
Replies: 10
Views: 1705

Re: BD Drive for non UHD Ripping

Please explain "LibreDrive". Can the drive's firmware still be flashed to a "LibreDrive" if the host key is revoked? Can non-UHD drives be flashed to a "LibreDrive"? Can a "LibreDrive" be utilized in "Libre" fashion by other programs besides MakeMKV?...
by flojo
Fri May 23, 2025 9:35 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Mac OS X
Topic: 3D blu-ray to .iso?
Replies: 4
Views: 1465

Re: 3D blu-ray to .iso?

.imgburn on Windows. I'm on Linux but, if I wanted to do it right now I'd download Windows 11 from Microsoft.com and run it in Virtualbox, saving the resulting. iSO to a NFS mount.

I"ve read you van do it with BSD, but I never tried.
by flojo
Mon May 19, 2025 8:16 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Help Sourcing Parts for 5-Bay Internal UHD/Blu-ray Ripping MakeMKV Setup
Replies: 2
Views: 1280

Re: Help Sourcing Parts for 5-Bay Internal UHD/Blu-ray Ripping MakeMKV Setup

700usd is not doable, you'll need to spend more. I've used 5 "Digital Pioneer BDR-212V" for UHD but I only did this twice (10 discs total). I don't rip regularly so I'm not sure if they're good drives, but the drives can be had sometimes for ~85usd on Amazon. After tax this came out to be ...
by flojo
Mon Apr 28, 2025 11:47 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: Play M2TS / play ripped movie VLC 32 bit
Replies: 3
Views: 4675

Re: Play M2TS / play ripped movie VLC 32 bit

Yes you should enable the "Decrypt video files" if viewing directly off the disc. See, 1 reply and this is already confusing...