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Pioneers depend on the firmware currently installed... What's your drive information?

Generally, the audio commentary will be a separate audio track embedded with the other tracks. You'll have to play the title you want to encode and select the individual audio tracks to test them. Now, having said that, the first English and Japanese audio tracks are most likely the ones that match ...

You didn't mention whether or not you'd powered the drive down to reset it... Without that, the drive is still running its original firmware.

That depends on your VPN, but likely it can work. Most systems USED to work via your internet provider blocking the DNS; if you could find the IP, they worked just fine, but looking them up by name came back with an invalid entry. Later systems do that PLUS block your actual call to forbidden IPs. T...

Are you properly selecting whether the firmware is encrypted or not?

Have you considered looking at the several topics that show up daily about buying drives, before creating yet another? They are kept up-to-date with what's available NOW, what works (and doesn't work) with UHD, etc.

A computer that runs Linux, MacOS, or Windows. A drive that can read the disk. MakeMKV to use those to read the disks, and write them to your computer's hard drives. Playback software that can access those drives and output to a video monitor. You will find quite a number of programs that do that la...

If the automatic download is not working, it is likely that your system is blocking contact with the Russian host that it is maintained on. This can be via DNS (the usual way) or other means. There are topics pinned to the forum (such as " hkdata.crabdance.com or hkdata.fairuse.org not found&qu...

Star Wars is one set of titles that does not always use subtitles for alien speech. When it's important, the "subtitle" is actually put in the video stream, rather than a subtitle track. When it's not, it is ignored. You'll see the same thing in Star Trek... Forced subtitles are usually bl...

You didn't specify if you're looking to rip video with the drive, or simply use it to write data to high-density disks. There are a number of Pioneer disks that will write 3-layer disks, but are forbidden by their software from READING 4K video disks. If you're not looking to read 4K UHD video, your...

Having some idea what TITLE you're referring to would help - it may be that it's already been decoded, and they keydb people could help.

The thing to remember is that MakeMKV tries to rip things as quickly as possible. It has some built-in speed limiters, which kick in where layers are changed (you're see an indication of [Safe Mode] next to the read speed when that happens), but there is also a "max speed" that can be set....

It is also unnecessary to convert to MP4, as VLC and most other players can handle MKV just fine. I'm currently ripping hundreds of disks again, and running the MKV files through handbrake to shrink them about 90% to make (smaller) MKVs, which can handle more subtitle types than MP4.

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