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by flojo
Tue Jan 06, 2026 3:54 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Budget External Bluray Drives?
Replies: 1
Views: 88

Re: Budget External Bluray Drives?

No. About a year and a half ago I bought 5 Pioneer BDR-212V's for 85 each and at that time, and even now, I consider $85 a lot for a optical drive :-/ (but I still bought 5 for a project). In other words, they haven't been "cheap" for a while and I'm not sure if the UHD compatible ones hav...
by flojo
Fri Jan 02, 2026 3:12 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: About Dune HD Homatics Box R 4K Plus
Replies: 13
Views: 21158

Re: About Dune HD Homatics Box R 4K Plus

Know that "androidTV" is the old term for "GoogleTV", but there is also just "Android". If a device is advertised as "Android 14", that means it is _NOT_ GoogleTV certified so it will not play HD+ content on Netfilx, Prime, etc. apps (if you can even get the a...
by flojo
Fri Jan 02, 2026 2:59 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Feature request: Remove "backup" folder
Replies: 2
Views: 876

Re: Feature request: Remove "backup" folder

Sadly MakeMKV does not support pre/post scripts, but if you always choose the same directory, maybe you could try 'mklink /d' to link 'backup' to it's parent directory. Of course if you don't always rip to the same directory this isn't really a viable option.
by flojo
Fri Jan 02, 2026 12:41 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: About Dune HD Homatics Box R 4K Plus
Replies: 13
Views: 21158

Re: About Dune HD Homatics Box R 4K Plus

UPDATE: There's now multiple boxes that support VVC/h266... I didn't know :-/ TLDR; I'd wait :-/. Rockchip is apparently working on a SoC that utilizes a hardware decoder for VVC/H266 and Intel has added it to QuickSync, this means that the next generation of devices *should* be coming soon... *shou...
by flojo
Thu Jan 01, 2026 5:37 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Is there a way to find out the disc year date - ripped with MKV?
Replies: 2
Views: 377

Re: Is there a way to find out the disc year date - ripped with MKV?

No. The best you can do is look at "writing_application" in the header editor and guess based on the release version of whatever program it is, but that doesn't really mean anything since you can use use very old versions of mkvmkerge's, handbrake's, etc. Going forward you could tag the mk...
by flojo
Wed Dec 31, 2025 8:27 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: ELI5 for a Linux NOOB
Replies: 4
Views: 783

Re: ELI5 for a Linux NOOB

Extract with whichever file archiver you have, for example I use Ark. You run those commands in each of the 2 directories you extracted, 1 for the bin, 1 for the oss. See if you can understand it from these commands (run 1 of the wget's to see what happens). #!/bin/bash mkdir ~/install_makemkv cd ~/...
by flojo
Wed Dec 31, 2025 7:31 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Dark mode for MAKEMKV?
Replies: 40
Views: 41514

Re: Dark mode for MAKEMKV?

On Linux... Sure, you can do that with any dark theme on a Linux desktop but, having it specific to the GUI is good for "other" operating systems. Sadly without a Git repo somewhere that someone can pull from, it's near pointless to take your time to modifying the code. The GUI is technic...
by flojo
Tue Dec 30, 2025 8:10 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Dark mode for MAKEMKV?
Replies: 40
Views: 41514

Re: Dark mode for MAKEMKV?

I have a modded build of the GUI with a dark theme applied. Use it alongside an existing install of MakeMKV on Windows. https://mega.nz/file/2aoAgZxL#OsD3Pd2A0TzQDyxc2Adp8ZB2i6JIqWLHiITtu4tYhPs Thanks. Someone really should setup a Git for the GUI on gitlab, githube or even git.makemkv.com using Gi...
by flojo
Wed Dec 24, 2025 5:39 am
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: Does the "enabled" flag do anything?
Replies: 2
Views: 1012

Re: Does the "enabled" flag do anything?

But do you know of anything that observes the flag? Your spec quote references the long abandoned Matroska menu system... which I guess is a fair correlation to the the enabled flag :-P
by flojo
Sat Dec 20, 2025 9:39 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: How long for Flashing BU40N on Linux ?
Replies: 1
Views: 642

Re: How long for Flashing BU40N on Linux ?

Use 1.17.6 of makemkvcon

makemkv.com/download/old
by flojo
Sat Dec 20, 2025 12:13 am
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: Does the "enabled" flag do anything?
Replies: 2
Views: 1012

Does the "enabled" flag do anything?

Does the "enabled" flag in the container do anything at all? Has anyone noticed any effect from it? It's not listed in ffmpeg -dispositions and it's not listed in mediainfo. Toggling it on and off has no effect in SMPlayer, VLC or Kodi. I'm asking because I know there was a "Apex"...
by flojo
Fri Dec 19, 2025 5:12 pm
Forum: Advanced MakeMKV usage
Topic: Feature Request: Streaming decrypted files (again)
Replies: 2
Views: 1407

Re: Feature Request: Streaming decrypted files (again)

... over a simple HTTP server. Using TCP/IP is a matter of packet forwarding, but I thought VLC could kind of already do this. I know way back in the VLS days, Video Lan SERVER, one of the gimmicks it could pull off was authenticating a DVD in an optical drive so you could read the disc over a netw...
by flojo
Fri Dec 19, 2025 4:57 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: Integrity Verification without downloading
Replies: 2
Views: 1110

Re: Integrity Verification without downloading

... 80GB even if I don't want to rip it? Sorry, you need to read every byte of every file you want. ... other software ... cat You could simply use "cat" on every file from the drive and if an error occurs during cat you then make decisions. ie. # pretend 00010.m2ts is your 1 big movie.m2...
by flojo
Thu Dec 18, 2025 12:43 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: HDD bad sectors causing visual artefacts on playback
Replies: 6
Views: 1044

Re: HDD bad sectors causing visual artefacts on playback

... with USB interface. With USB, at most a 2 drive RAID mirror, so use 2 20TB drives in a mirror to make 1 20TB. However I have heard bad things about RAID on USB. You really should look at something like Par2 for this being that you're dealing with extremely low file counts and very large archive...
by flojo
Thu Dec 18, 2025 12:28 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: Can't uncompress files for 1.18.2
Replies: 7
Views: 1698

Re: Can't uncompress files for 1.18.2

BuffaloSlack wrote:
Thu Dec 18, 2025 6:29 am
bug 1470011" for more info.
It seems to not be a bug of Firefox but the behavior of Chrome.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470011