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the guide has the mac and linux commands there is no gui on those platforms you must use cli


OK, great... but where do I download the "flasher tool", and the firmware for my drives?


its built into makemkv


That sounds good... do I need to download any firmware - or anything else - to ...

See guides Mac commands below


I'm sorry, but I'm not following your reply... I have a drive I want to flash, but don't have a Windows computer - I have a Mac, and a Linux box.

Thanks,
~S


the guide has the mac and linux commands there is no gui on those platforms you must use cli


OK ...

Billycar11 wrote: Fri Feb 16, 2024 10:07 pm See guides Mac commands below

I'm sorry, but I'm not following your reply... I have a drive I want to flash, but don't have a Windows computer - I have a Mac, and a Linux box.

Thanks,
~S

Hello,

This question may have already been answered - but I couldn't find it! Is there a version of the SDF tool that runs on macOS (Sequoia)??

If not - are there any recommendations for a firmware upgrade for my BRXL-16U3 (Buffalo)?

FWIW: This is a fairly recent model, bought new in 2025 ...

And that seems to be the answer! MakeMKV does in fact use the "High" profile, defined in the Wikipedia article as follows:

High Profile (HiP, 100)
The primary profile for broadcast and disc storage applications, particularly for
high-definition television applications (for example, this is ...

Before getting carried away with H.265 as a way to save disk space, perhaps you should consider the topic of Generation Loss .

The problem is this: Your source data (BD/DVD) contains video data that has already been encoded/compressed using a lossy codec; i.e. mpeg2 with DVDs, H.264, Hi Profile ...

... encoded with H264-BluRay - a variant on H264.


Incorrect, there's only different profiles/presets. ffprobe might be displaying a slightly more acute description if you've supplied a .m2ts or something like that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding


I'm sorry, but your ...

I'm trying to confirm some "notions" that I've come by - without being able to recall exactly where I got them. I'd appreciate any comments or feedback:

Notion #1: The video on DVDs is typically encoded with the MP2 codec.

Notion #2: The video on BDs is typically encoded with H264-BluRay - a ...

This is in the manual for ddrescue, although the manual does have problems with vagueness in the early sections describing what exactly happens in the various phases. Check the sections about optical disc recovery, and some of the examples involving multiple discs and multiple drives.

I do ...

The ddrescue map file allows you to interrupt the operation and resume it some other time -- with a different disc (same pressing, different copy), different computer, different optical drive, etc. Also, you can resume and tweak the operation if you decide to reverse direction, or change which ...

Do the various ddrescue phases, one at a time, alternating between drives. Whatever is skipped by the first drive can be attempted by the second drive, which may be able to read problematic areas better. That is better than just using a single drive and having it get bogged down on difficult areas ...

You should use multiple optical drives at the various ddrescue phases, certainly before the time-consuming scrape and retry phases.


Sorry, but I'm not following your suggestion... I've got 2 drives, but it completely escapes me as to how I'd use them both to recover an ISO file from a "failing ...

It seems it can! Use the 'File' menu to open the ISO file (created via GNU's 'ddrescue' utility), and process it "as usual" using MakeMKV.

A few notes to summarize my experience using 'ddrescue' with MakeMKV:

1. It's not clear to me exactly what causes a DVD to malfunction such that MakeMKV will ...

I'm finding more DVDs in my collection that are un-readable... un-readable not only by MakeMKV, but also un-readable even in my "TV-connected DVD player". Searching for a solution has turned up a GNU package called 'ddrescue' . I've used 'ddrescue' to create an ISO file of a DVD, and it seems the ...

I'm considering buying a license for MakeMKV. However, I've been unable to find any document or documentation that describes the license terms.

Does anyone know where the license terms for MakeMKV can be found??

Thnx,
~S