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To amplify what was said, I have three drives available to me - the Bluray drive I use as primary, an original Sony USB/Firewire DVD writer, and a generic DVD R/W drive in another computer. Sometimes the BD drive can't rip a disk, but the Sony sees everything just fine. The difference in laser and o...

Lots of possible problems, from bad/dirty disks to bad/dirty drives to, yes, bugs.

Have you enabled logging in MakeMKV and looked at the logs? What kind of errors are you seeing?

There are issues with how MakeMKV and Handbrake handle the "forced" subtitles. At present, it is best to select the main subtitle track in MakeMKV, and let Handbrake pick out the forced ones. Of course, there are some examples that defy both programs as far as "forced only" subti...

If the output is MP4, then yes, you can only do one track, and it is burned in...

But, if the output is MKV, handbrake will copy the PGS subtitles to the resulting MKV file, and (assuming player support) they are all available.

The player support of PGS is the problem...

"Always on" is a function of what you play the files with. The Uebo M400 always plays subtitle track 1, until you turn it off. Their M100, on the other hand, never plays subtitles, until you turn them on. VLC goes by your preferences, but the default is to play the first track of your pref...

I don't remember seeing DVDs with a "forced only" options on their subtitles - they're generally separate tracks.

What are you using to play the MKV file? A lot of players (like VLC, most Uebo units, Seagate Theater units) default to showing the first subtitle track in a file. This is USUALLY what is referred to as "forced" subtitles (only text of signs or undubbed language), but a lot of DVDs are mas...

What errors (if any) are displayed? At the very least, you need to turn on debugging while doing the rip. Follow the Troubleshooting FAQ at http://www.makemkv.com/faq/item/8/catid/6 for how to do it, and what to submit. For what it is worth, I was able to rip "a" DVD version of True Grit a...

Similar to what I do, but my first level response is Pledge. It works for cleaning and minor scratches. If that doesn't do it, polishing with a mild tooth paste is next.

Haven't had to resort to car wax yet... if the first two don't do it, it's usually because the disk is cracked somewhere.

I was one of the people anxiously (but quietly) awaiting the arrival of PGS support in Handbrake, so I've been doing a LOT of BD re-ripping recently. I have MakeMKV rip "everything" (all audio tracks, all subtitle tracks). With VLC, I switch through the subtitle tracks to find the ones tha...

Rip it with all the subtitles, then use VLC to find out which subtitle track is "correct". You can then use Handbrake to ONLY include the "correct" track. If you're doing the BD version, you will need the latest nightly build of Handbrake to handle the PGS subtitle tracks, and yo...

No need to compile it yourself, the nightly builds have include PGS subtitle support for a week now.

Converting to MP4, you can only burn one subtitle track in, but, if your player supports PGS subtitles in MKV files, you can keep the subtitles in place as tracks by compressing back into an MKV.

The obvious answer is... Where did you tell MakeMKV to put it? If you are using the MakeMKV GUI, there is a box where you put the FILE PATH to save the ripped files to. You can change where it defaults to in the configuration menu, or you can put an arbitrary path in at the time you run it. The &quo...

I can only tell you what works in Windows... Click on the first entry you want to delete. Ctrl-Click on the next you want to delete, until you have selected all that you want to delete. Hit the Delete key. If you are doing a range, click on the first, then hold the Shift key down while clicking on t...

Oh, Handbrake.... ;) You can highlight all the entries on the Queue screen, and hit DELETE, and they go away. I've all but stopped using HB's queue, though... I use the GUI to create a minimal queue with the options I need, then have it generate a batch file, and delete everything. Since I'm general...