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Is it reasonable to expect that at some point (in the hopefully not too distant future) we will see the encryption keys included in MakeMKV? I downloaded the latest keydb.cfg (dated October 23, 2025) and ripped all five disks with no problem yesterday, so it looks like the keys are included in the ...

I have the latest keydb.cfg, but can't open the disk.

Yep, that did it. Thanks.

Dump submitted for Shout Factory's Scent of a Woman and attached here.

The result looked basically brand new to my eyes. And voila - MakeMKV read and ripped with no errors. Good work; I'm genuinely impressed by your effort and success! So far, my problem disks have been ones that were relatively inexpensive to replace via eBay, but your approach is definitely somethin...

According to Keepa, Amazon hasn't been selling those first two titles ( Red Dwarf and Are You Being Served Again? ), at least not for years, so I suspect you got them from third-party sellers. I've bought hundreds of DVDs and Blu-Rays from Amazon over the years, both movies and television shows, and...

Coopervid wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 29, 2025 9:52 pm

What do you mean by "pledge"? Use liquid soap and warm water.

Pledge is a household cleaner/polish product sold in the United States and often used for furniture.

Glad to help.

It sounds like your optical drive is DRM locked into a region that's different from the disk's region. I don't know if new drives still do this because it's been a long time since I last bought an optical drive I didn't flash. The last I knew of, though, there was a counter that was incremented each...

No, Plex won't use the menu file at all, so you should just delete it. Plex looks at what's included in the container (MKV file in this case) to determine what audio tracks are available. In all likelihood, both audio tracks are included in the main feature's MKV file, in which case Plex will detect...

Because they all play in the player I had high hopes that all could be ripped. I know the feeling. It's frustrating and disappointing to have a disk that will play but can't be ripped. Apparently, a player can and will skip over problematic areas, potentially without the viewer even realizing it, b...

jakebor wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 18, 2025 4:07 pm

Is anyone else having problems specifically with the Criterion Blurays?

Not me. I've ripped a couple dozen or so Criterion Blu-Ray disks without any problems or other unusual behavior, but I wasn't using a BU40N or ripping any of the titles you mentioned.

Is it true that all new drives now come from the factory with LibreDrive blocked so that unless you find a used one or buy off a member here that has old stock you are completely out of luck? No, that's not the case; there are new drives you can flash still being sold by retailers. Others may be ab...

This is completely unrelated, and not a question but the Ten Commandments movie rip is insanely Huge 93.5 gigabytes To add to what dcoke already wrote, the size isn't really surprising. Many of my rips of 90- to 120-minute movie 2K disks are in the neighborhood of 25-30GB, so for a 220-minute movie...

I recently acquired a multi-season DVD box of a TV series that initially aired in HD, but I was saddened to see that the episodes only have 480p resolution. Unsurprisingly, they don't look good on my 4K TV. Yeah, it's a disappointment when a show you love is only available on DVD, but as others hav...