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by SirYodaJedi
Tue Oct 14, 2025 4:33 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Am I processing my rips correctly?
Replies: 12
Views: 768

Re: Am I processing my rips correctly?

I don't think FLAC keeps any positional audio data like Dolby Atmos. I only have a basic home setup, so don't benefit from Atmos anyway. I still keep the track in case I end up upgrading a few decades from now, or bring my rip to someone else's house with a fancier system. Mono and stereo FLAC are ...
by SirYodaJedi
Tue Oct 14, 2025 3:53 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: Forced subtitles
Replies: 96
Views: 55965

Re: Forced subtitles

I looked into the audio codecs that Dolby and DTS have to offer…. Not sure what this has to do with the topic, but yeah, Dolby Atmos and DTS:X aren't codecs, but rather metadata upon an existing stream. Atmos will usually be carried in a TrueHD stream, but there are a disc or two which have Atmos u...
by SirYodaJedi
Tue Oct 14, 2025 3:18 pm
Forum: Blu-ray discs
Topic: Can't read Blu ray discs at all
Replies: 3
Views: 2136

Re: Can't read Blu ray discs at all

dcoke22 wrote:
Tue Oct 14, 2025 1:46 pm
Is it possible that your drive is only a DVD reader?
That was my first thought as well, but the reported product name (BD-RW BDR-XD05) is indeed a Blu-ray drive.
by SirYodaJedi
Wed Oct 08, 2025 4:21 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: Does using MKVtoolnix in any way alter or damage the file?
Replies: 3
Views: 9075

Re: Does using MKVtoolnix in any way alter or damage the file?

For some reason, it trims leading and trailing spaces from SRT subtitles, which MakeMKV writes when converting closed captions to subtitles. I don't particularly mind, although it is strange. Other than that, I haven't had any issues (I don't watch HDR stuff, so I can't speak to any issues there); I...
by SirYodaJedi
Mon Oct 06, 2025 8:54 pm
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: TrueHD seamless branching audio dropouts still a thing?
Replies: 5
Views: 7918

Re: TrueHD seamless branching audio dropouts still a thing?

Out of curiosity, do the TrueHD issues with "seamless branching" affect the AC3 fallback "core" in any regard? I don't have an Atmos or even 7.1 setup, so I'm fine with downgrading to the AC3 fallback if necessary. (I haven't ripped any multi-M2TS TrueHD discs yet, and googling i...
by SirYodaJedi
Sun Oct 05, 2025 2:51 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Has Makemkv got any better when ripping TV series
Replies: 7
Views: 4284

Re: Has Makemkv got any better when ripping TV series

Additionally, I've found that when making MKVs from discs, the playlists are sometimes read out of order (presumably something to do with how the disc is structured?), but when making MKVs from a (decrypted) backup, the playlists are always read in numerical order. I do still cross-check the episode...
by SirYodaJedi
Tue Sep 30, 2025 9:02 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: MakeMKV ripping a DVD episode in the wrong aspect ratio
Replies: 2
Views: 12583

Re: MakeMKV ripping a DVD episode in the wrong aspect ratio

You can fix the aspect ratio metadata after ripping; I had to do that for some standard definition bonus features from the 2012 Indiana Jones Blu-ray. For 4:3 videos, just changing the display width to 640 in mkvtoolnix should work correctly. For 16:9 videos, the math isn't quite perfect if you do t...
by SirYodaJedi
Thu Sep 25, 2025 6:32 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Are backups worth it in the long run?
Replies: 15
Views: 12831

Re: Are backups worth it in the long run?

I'd keep full disc backups of all my discs if I could, but I "only" have 4 TB. I keep unprocessed MKVs of a few works that I think meaningfully suffer from being decompressed (mainly anime; I can get live action stuff looking great down to 8-10% the size, but 2D animated stuff suffers even...
by SirYodaJedi
Fri Sep 19, 2025 10:33 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Preferences explained somewhere?
Replies: 9
Views: 7770

Re: Preferences explained somewhere?

Thanks for all the answers and suggestions @SirYodaJedi Manual you can set ONE default language, but not TWO As a non native english speaker I surely like to get my own language, but often you only get best Audiotrack, if you chose English Thats why I would like to set 2 default languages See https...
by SirYodaJedi
Wed Sep 17, 2025 10:48 pm
Forum: Advanced MakeMKV usage
Topic: Change Default Naming of Tracks
Replies: 9
Views: 53308

Re: Change Default Naming of Tracks

+1 for a naming rule (also bump). Like Cipher, I always name tracks based upon what codec they use because VLC doesn't show this info; it's annoying to have to change from the generic "Surround 7.1"/"Stereo"/etc to "Dolby TrueHD Atmos"/"DTS-HD MA 5.1"/"Do...
by SirYodaJedi
Wed Sep 17, 2025 4:25 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Preferences explained somewhere?
Replies: 9
Views: 7770

Re: Preferences explained somewhere?

when will i use a different profile than default AAC, FLAC (i saw it converts in this case the audio) WDTV AAC and FLAC profiles compress the audio, and can slow things down if copying directly from disc. I also personally wouldn't recommend them for non-stereo sources, due to various reasons. WDTV...
by SirYodaJedi
Thu Sep 04, 2025 2:55 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Multiple Audio Tracks
Replies: 5
Views: 7307

Re: Multiple Audio Tracks

M, yeah, in that situation it'd make sense to extract the core while doing initial backup. I watch local offline files, so I just do a quick remux if I need to toss the lossless extension (it's fast on an internal SSD).
by SirYodaJedi
Sat Aug 16, 2025 4:22 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Best software to shrink mkv
Replies: 5
Views: 4851

Re: Best software to shrink mkv

GmanEst72 wrote:
Sat Aug 16, 2025 10:39 am
But do you know if you can create an ISO file through MakeMKV.
Disc backups of DVDs will create an ISO. For BD and UHD (and maybe HDDVD?), you'll need to put the generated folders from the disc backup into an ISO with another tool, such as AnyBurn.
by SirYodaJedi
Fri Aug 15, 2025 5:39 pm
Forum: DVD discs
Topic: DTS 6.1 Tracks automatically being downmixed to 5.1
Replies: 4
Views: 9568

Re: DTS 6.1 Tracks automatically being downmixed to 5.1

IME (last checked a few months before OP), it doesn't actually convert them; it just writes the wrong metadata because it doesn't recognize DTS-ES Discrete. From my testing, if you use MKVExtract to extract the DTS stream from the MKV, then MKVToolNix-GUI to re-insert the extracted stream, the track...
by SirYodaJedi
Thu Aug 14, 2025 4:47 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Multiple Audio Tracks
Replies: 5
Views: 7307

Re: Multiple Audio Tracks

Example: The 7.1 stream is DTS:X and the playback device supports only Dolby or supports plain DTS but not DTS:X. Having a fallback can be helpful in those situations. Due to how DTS-HD and DTS-X are encoded, you don't need to rip the core separately; the audio stream includes the core, and any pla...