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Assuming you copied the entire movie, your transcoding software may do like handbrake does... assume you want the "best" sound. Casablanca, though, is like a number of other old movies; it's mono soundtrack was transcoded as stereo, and the commentary is encoded as "modern" 5.1 a...

Having read in the Stargate Atlantis disks previously (at least 5 years ago), MakeMKV can read them if the drive will read them... But it would seem your copy has an unreadable disk. Have you tried cleaning it? These disks are old enough that they could have accumulated chemicals from the packaging ...

When I've changed it with mkvtoolnix, it just affected the header of the file; the actual encoding stayed as it was on the disk. You can actually have mkvtoolnix recopy the video, but it isn't strictly necessary.

So, in summary, your disk has unreadable parts? 005003:0000 Failed to save title 0 to file L:/Video/12 ANGRY MEN/12 Angry Men - BLU OWN.mkv 002023:0000 Encountered 21 errors of type 'Read Error' - see http://www.makemkv.com/errors/read/ error=0x06031105 count=18 name=Scsi error - MEDIUM ERROR:L-EC U...

mkvtoolnix doesn't do any recoding, so the time it takes to run depends on how fast your drive can copy things. In my use, it's only affecting the header of the file (setting flags and such), but re-writing things to remove unneeded tracks takes a moment or two longer.

How do you install it to different directories, doesn't it automatically go to /usr/bin? How do you change that? I thought the installer asked where you wanted to install it, just defaulting to "standard locations". At least on Windows and Mac, you're first asked where to put it after it ...

Mkvtoolnix can do just about anything within an MKV file; it comes from the guy that developed the standard. Typically, I simply use the flags on a file that's already got the track in it. Here's the command I use, as part of a Windows batch file: c:\MKVTools\MKVToolNix\mkvpropedit.exe %1 -e track:s...

Mainly because I had various versions for testing, as they were released. Playing showed that they cooperated with other versions when I would run different ones (so long as they weren't fighting over a single drive), so I have gotten in the habit of loading new versions separately, rather than alwa...

And you CAN have multiple versions of MakeMKV installed in different directories. You don't have to "downgrade" just to flash. I think I've got about 7 versions on this machine right now.

Yes, the forced subtitles are the ones for foreign dialog or signs in the film. If the movie dialog is in English, those won't be there. Subtitles can be done multiple ways, though. Officially, you have a "subtitle track", with certain subtitles flagged as "forced", and they're t...

"exact copy" is not going to involve handbrake. It WILL encode the video, and usually make it smaller. In fact, I'm not aware of any tool that can encode the subtitles onto the video that doesn't reencode it per it's rules. It has to extract (decode) the frame, draw the subtitle, then reen...

Burning time depends on the video and your choices for it. The subtitles don't really affect the time. Right now, I'm running a batch script to tell handbrake to rip Phi Brain (anime series), and it's doing about 45 frames per second. When I was doing Ranma 1/2 (161 episodes), it was doing about 20 ...

Handbrake will burn subtitles in for you.

Unfortunately, Mike is the only one that can recover keys.

Another thought occurred to me - what is your minimum title length set to? If it's short (I use 30 seconds), it will show individual episodes when they're listed in the directory. However, a lot of people use long (1800 or 30 minutes is common) settings, which MAY be longer than the individual episo...