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The key you posted is NOT the current key found in the message MakeMKV is free while in beta, so it won't work past July 31, 2025. Try it with the current key.

There is no attachment. Probably, it exceeds the 4.0MB limit, which means you'll have to post it on a different site. The upload that MakeMKV uses is one you email to svq@makemkv.com , as Mike does not visit the forum often enough to handle them being posted here. However, the keydb people can, if i...

It isn't a TAR until you remove the gzip encoding that makes it smaller. Kind of like zip, but it isn't.

First extract the TAR file from the tar.gz file (gunzip makemkv-bin-1.18.1.tar.gz) then you can use TAR to break the files out.

Most likely, your dump file exceeded the board's 4.0gb limit, as it isn't attached. You need to email that dump to svq@makemkv.com for inclusion in MakeMKV. That's how it gets into the main program. To get it into the keydb database, you need to post it somewhere that you can share files, and then p...

This forum is owned and operated by Mike Admin to support MakeMKV. Now, Mike can't be around all the time, so he has set up a couple of people (myself included) to manage the forum and keep riff-raff off that are trying to fool people into compromising their accounts across internet, or trying to hi...

The forum limit is when the file being uploaded exceeds 4.0MB, but that should not affect uploads to Mike for inclusion in MakeMKV, because those are ALWAYS supposed to be sent via email to svq@makemkv.com . When you want to send them for inclusion in the keydb database, though, those have been post...

Are you assuming the V at the end is for "5", and not part of "MKV" (the file format)?

Usually means you're using an expired key - the one included IN the file expired last month, and you need to use the one in this message to update it. When you have a permanent key, you shouldn't see this again. Back before MakeMKV did dynamic updates for things like keys, changing the program out p...

If you registered prior to July 31, 2025, MakeMKV works just fine. If you are still using the beta key to run it without registering, the last beta key expired July 31, 2025, and no new beta key or permanent key has been available since then. If you are still using the beta key, you must set your sy...

It depends on your drive. Most modern drives, MakeMKV can read out-of-region disks just fine. Especially Bluray and UHD. DVD is the problematic disk.

Sounds like Lionsgate disks, with dozens to hundreds of false entries to throw you off.

Generally speaking, MakeMKV can find the correct copy and put it first in the list; sometimes, though, you have to sort thru them and ignore any copy that doesn't match the runtime stated.

As of when you posted your message, there were over two dozen "can't run because of license message threads active on the forum. Do you think yours will fix the often-reported issue?

I can confirm that Mike Admin is in a site in what used to be Russia; what it is now, I cannot know.

Mike has exclusive control over keys, pricing, etc. All I or any other sysop have control over is the forum, and that's limited.

If you do not already have a key when starting 1.18.1, we are already past it's cur-ott date. Until Mike issues a new key, you're stuck with setting your system time to a date in July 2025, starting MakeMKV, then resetting your system date to today. It's been part of MakeMKV "forever", goi...

Generally speaking, when you receive your acknowledgment of order from the order page (via PayPro Global), it SHOULD include a registration key. Apparently, from the discussion, that has not happened this month. That operation is, as I understand it, independent of whether Mike is available or not. ...