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Hey, I've ripped apocalypse now a few months ago and can say with certainty that the 4k release has international and domestic credits included. This is done with seamless branching, so you've been ripping the same movie 3 or 4 times. I'd suggest you just pick one of them and call it a day - the ot...

In my view, 1 & 4 do not need to be ripped. 2 or 3, but not both, is the one you want. As for things that come from a DVD… I leave them alone. DVD rips are so much smaller files compared to blu-rays or 4K UHDs that they're kinda inconsequential in the grand scheme. And by not compressing them t...

1) {File t00} -- Comment: SEG FPL_01, 84.3GB, .mpls file, 1 chapter, Codec: MpegH HEVC Main10@5.1 (dvhe.07.06 BL+FEL+RPU), Segment count: 1, Segment map: 278 2) {File t04} -- Comment: FPL_MainFeature, 86.4GB,.mpls file, 19 chapters, Codec: MpegH HEVC Main10@5.1 (dvhe.07.06 BL+FEL+RPU), Segment coun...

It is worth mentioning that if you make a decrypted backup of a disc (by clicking the icon of the yellow folder with the green arrow on the first screen of MakeMKV), you can open that backup and create .mkv files from it as many times as you like at speeds way higher than you can read from the opti...

Do you have expert mode enabled? https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=16405 When you highlight a title on the left, you'll see a lot of information in the 'info' box on the right. Some titles will have a source file name that is a #####.mpls file. There will be a duration, number...

UPDATE Part 1: As I've already mentioned, I'm a complete noob at the whole ripping thing...so, as I'm sure it was with everyone else at one point in time, it's a "learning process" for me. Since yesterday, I've learned two important things...and, in a manner of speaking, they are related. ...

Blu-rays and 4K UHDs have a feature called seamless branching. With seamless branching, a disc can contain multiple versions of the same movie and only require extra space for the parts that are different. If you make a decrypted backup of a disc and look in the <backup>/BDMV/STREAM/ folder you'll ...

First off, I admit, I'm a complete noob where ripping is concerned. Thanks to info provided by @MartyMcNuts, I was able to narrow down optical drive choices, flash/cross-flash the drive to downgrade the firmware & enable LibreDrive. That done, I decided it might be best to first rip one movie of...

Yeah, don't write directly to your NAS drive. It would probably be quicker (and less wear and tear on the NAS drives) to write to your PC drive, especially if you have a SSD, then move the mkv file to your NAS once completed. Thanks for the info. "Funny" thing is, I've given similar advic...

Well, since Pioneer drives are almost impossible to find now (they ceased production a few months ago), the LG BU40N is probably the best of what is available. For flashing on Windows, use SDFtool Flasher. https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=94848#p94848 Thank you. I believe I accomplis...

The Archgon and the Verbatim 43888 both contain a LG BU40N drive inside their enclosures. These drives do not rip UHD discs out of the box but can easily be flashed to BU40N 1.03-MK to enable libredrive and UHD readability. First, fantastic. Second, would either/both of these be considered "go...

First, this is my first post within this forum. Second, although I've been custom building computers for people for over 25 years, I'm a total noob where ripping movies is concerned...so new, in fact, that I haven't even started, and I'm in desperate need of information. Put another way, I know less...