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The -sel:all at the start is redundant, because you have +sel:all right afterwards, negating it.

FWIW, the default selection rule will grab everything except 3D video and attachments if you don't have a favorite language set (and you can have it grab 3D video too by removing the -sel:mvcvideo).

I use -sel:core at the end of my selection rule, but that will also deselect AC3 fallbacks for TrueHD tracks, which I like to keep (so I have to either manually select it, or for series, just temporarily remove it from the rule). If anyone knows how to make that selection rule not apply to TrueHD, I...

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

+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...

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...

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).

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.