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I know it's not an answer, but you could edit the shortcut command and prepend 'reg delete "HKCU\blah\blah" /f & ' to the path value. Or so I guess you can as I can't test it (you might have to add 'start /w /b').

I thought a snap had it's root at $HOME/snap/app name/..something / something
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Obviously I don't use snap, but it's not surprising that a host path doesn't work as a jailed path.

Yeh, it looks like makemkvcon's $PWD is not what you think it is.

... a "map file" ... The map is similar to windows "defrag" visual output which is, the sectors of the UDF filesystem are tracked for which sectors have failed and failures are retried individually and on successful retries the data is inserted into the correct position. The typ...

Cool.

My thoughts are that I'm not sure what "weird shit" you're talking about but I suggest using the common practices of a shell. Also use double quotes ("") and put a she-bang up top so people understand which shell these commands are supposed to work in. Also since the entire thing...

glob and line continuation

*BU40N.bin

Yes. Learn how to use "MKVToolNix GUI", plenty of tutorials.

Maybe look through this, it does assign expert mode in "app_string.py", although I'm not sure what it does with the value: https://github.com/me-dex/mmkv_abi

If ffmpeg can parse it, then why not use that? You might be better off running dvddecrypter through wine.

Correct. Only 4K UHD takes a special drive.

Although I do wish MakeMKV could rip SACD.

Why wouldn't it be? I'm not a C++ guru but taking something like MakeMKV GUI from qt5 to qt6 should be extremely elementary. If you look at the code it's not very complex, it's very C heavy with little C++ and very little of a class based approach (baring which is required by Qt). Sadly, I think due...

So it works again? You now need a version >= 0.96.4 ?

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...

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...

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.