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by Woodstock
Sun Dec 14, 2025 3:58 am
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: Can you guys try to fix the incorrect aspect ratio issue?
Replies: 6
Views: 714

Re: Can you guys try to fix the incorrect aspect ratio issue?

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.
by Woodstock
Thu Dec 11, 2025 5:47 pm
Forum: Blu-ray discs
Topic: 12 Angry Men Blu Ray Criterion Collection
Replies: 3
Views: 195

Re: 12 Angry Men Blu Ray Criterion Collection

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...
by Woodstock
Wed Dec 10, 2025 9:25 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Question regarding forced subtitles
Replies: 15
Views: 886

Re: Question regarding forced subtitles

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. :)
by Woodstock
Tue Dec 09, 2025 9:42 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: How to downgrade to 1.17.7 so I can flash?
Replies: 13
Views: 870

Re: How to downgrade to 1.17.7 so I can flash?

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 ...
by Woodstock
Tue Dec 09, 2025 9:37 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Question regarding forced subtitles
Replies: 15
Views: 886

Re: Question regarding forced subtitles

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...
by Woodstock
Tue Dec 09, 2025 8:30 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: How to downgrade to 1.17.7 so I can flash?
Replies: 13
Views: 870

Re: How to downgrade to 1.17.7 so I can flash?

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...
by Woodstock
Tue Dec 09, 2025 7:10 pm
Forum: MakeMKV for Linux
Topic: How to downgrade to 1.17.7 so I can flash?
Replies: 13
Views: 870

Re: How to downgrade to 1.17.7 so I can flash?

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.
by Woodstock
Tue Dec 09, 2025 7:08 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Question regarding forced subtitles
Replies: 15
Views: 886

Re: Question regarding forced subtitles

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...
by Woodstock
Tue Dec 09, 2025 3:32 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Question regarding forced subtitles
Replies: 15
Views: 886

Re: Question regarding forced subtitles

"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...
by Woodstock
Tue Dec 09, 2025 5:12 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Question regarding forced subtitles
Replies: 15
Views: 886

Re: Question regarding forced subtitles

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 ...
by Woodstock
Tue Dec 09, 2025 4:11 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Question regarding forced subtitles
Replies: 15
Views: 886

Re: Question regarding forced subtitles

Handbrake will burn subtitles in for you.
by Woodstock
Tue Dec 09, 2025 2:42 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: MKV License key retreival
Replies: 4
Views: 884

Re: MKV License key retreival

Unfortunately, Mike is the only one that can recover keys.
by Woodstock
Sun Dec 07, 2025 4:54 pm
Forum: Blu-ray discs
Topic: Naruto Complete Series Blu ray
Replies: 4
Views: 603

Re: Naruto Complete Series Blu ray

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...
by Woodstock
Sun Dec 07, 2025 4:29 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: Can you guys try to fix the incorrect aspect ratio issue?
Replies: 6
Views: 714

Re: Can you guys try to fix the incorrect aspect ratio issue?

And there is the additional problem that some DVDs have "split" aspect ratio information - the track is different from the "whole disk" ratio, so... which is right?
by Woodstock
Sun Dec 07, 2025 4:25 pm
Forum: UHD discs
Topic: TGZ files
Replies: 1
Views: 319

Re: TGZ files

Cannot comment on whether or not your system system being able to download from MakeMKV's Russian server or whether Mike has not been able to use your uploaded file to create a key yet. There have been others who submitted key requests in the last few days which have been answered through being able...