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I am having a hell of time properly ripping the Pokemon DVDs. The problem is that a lot of cartoons I rip contain just a giant mpeg that I have to split later. I manually go through each mpeg and list the start and end chapters for each episode and save it in a text file for parsing later. The probl...

And my BU40 is a ASUS BW-16D1HT, not LG. ASUS does not actually manufacture optical drives. They do, however, rebrand other optical drives and put their own firmware on them. Some older ASUS drives were rebranded Pioneer drives. Most often ASUS drives are rebranded LG drives. An ASUS BW-16D1HT is t...

Pioneer external slim BDR-XS07U works, and rips significantly faster than my internal BU40N or internal BW-16D1HT . It's supposed to be a 4x drive but it's faster than my 8x drive, on USB 3. I'd share my firmware but makemkv's sdftool doesn't work on linux (wish it did). I couldn't flash my BU40N a...

Pioneer external slim BDR-XS07U works, and rips significantly faster than my internal BU40N or internal BW-16D1HT . It's supposed to be a 4x drive but it's faster than my 8x drive, on USB 3. I'd share my firmware but makemkv's sdftool doesn't work on linux (wish it did). I couldn't flash my BU40N an...