USING THREE OPTICAL DRIVES IS A PAIN BECAUSE OF AVOIDABLE FRUSTRATING MAKEMKV BEHAVIOR

[etyrnal]

USING THREE OPTICAL DRIVES IS A PAIN BECAUSE OF AVOIDABLE FRUSTRATING MAKEMKV BEHAVIOR

ONE INSTANCE OF MAKEMKV SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO INTERRUPT ANOTHER INSTANCE!!

I pull in 3 disks at once. MakeMKV's.is so dumb when it comes to dealing with multiple instances.

First of all, if i already have TWO drives, each being used by MakeMKV to pull data off of discs, and i launch a 3rd instance, that third instance seems to be completely UNAWARE of the other TWO instances, and just interrupts those TWO WORKING drives to poll the drives -- this almost always INTERRUPTS and kills those jobs with "Error 'Scsi error - MEDIUM ERROR:L-EC UNCORRECTABLE ERROR' occurred while reading '/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB' at offset "

This is SO DUMB!!! I keep losing work and experiencing SETBACKS. Why on earth doesn't each instance of MakeMKV check to see if tne other instances are engaged with drives first. Also, every time i launch an instance it polls ALL THREE DRIVES! I don't want the instance to automatically poll ANYTHING!! This keeps ruining productivity. I want the software to launch, and do NOTHING. I want to select the drive MANUALLY.

This is so frustrating. Imagine trying to ingest 15 years worth of a show with 300+ episodes, and over a hundred special features, and the tasks keep failing because MakeMKV won't stop interfering with itself!

How do i make the instances STOP polling ALL drives at launch??!!

Often when this happens, i cannot get an instance to see a disc again until i QUIT that instance and re-launch it -- but then that interferes with already running instances by stupidly polling ALL drives again -- interrupting running jobs.

This is TERRIBLE.

Make it so when an new instance launches, i can DISABLE AUTOMATIC POLLING, and MANUALLY SELECT a DRIVE/DISC!!!

[d00zah]

USING THREE OPTICAL DRIVES IS A PAIN BECAUSE OF AVOIDABLE STUPID MAKEMKV BEHAVIOR

ONE INSTANCE OF MAKEMKV SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO INTERRUPT ANOTHER INSTANCE!!

I pull in 3 disks at once. MakeMKV's.is so dumb when it comes to dealing with multiple instances.

First of all, if i already have TWO drives, each being used by MakeMKV to pull data off of discs, and i launch a 3rd instance, that third instance seems to be completely UNAWARE of the other TWO instances, and just interrupts those TWO WORKING drives to poll the drives -- this almost always INTERRUPTS and kills those jobs with "Error 'Scsi error - MEDIUM ERROR:L-EC UNCORRECTABLE ERROR' occurred while reading '/VIDEO_TS/VTS_01_1.VOB' at offset "

This is SO DUMB!!! I keep losing work and experiencing SETBACKS. Why on earth doesn't each instance of MakeMKV check to see if tne other instances are engaged with drives first. Also, every time i launch an instance it polls ALL THREE DRIVES! I don't want the instance to automatically poll ANYTHING!! This keeps ruining productivity. I want the software to launch, and do NOTHING. I want to select the drive MANUALLY.

This is so frustrating. Imagine trying to ingest 15 years worth of a show with 300+ episodes, and over a hundred special features, and the tasks keep failing because MakeMKV won't stop interfering with itself!

How do i make the instances STOP polling ALL drives at launch??!!

Often when this happens, i cannot get an instance to see a disc again until i QUIT that instance and re-launch it -- but then that interferes with already running instances by stupidly polling ALL drives again -- interrupting running jobs.

This is TERRIBLE.

Make it so when an new instance launches, i can DISABLE AUTOMATIC POLLING, and MANUALLY SELECT a DRIVE/DISC!!!

In MakeMKV preferences > IO tab > check 'Ask for single drive mode' & try again.

[etyrnal]

USING THREE OPTICAL DRIVES IS A PAIN BECAUSE OF AVOIDABLE STUPID MAKEMKV BEHAVIOR


Make it so when an new instance launches, i can DISABLE AUTOMATIC POLLING, and MANUALLY SELECT a DRIVE/DISC!!!

In MakeMKV preferences > IO tab > check 'Ask for single drive mode' & try again.

i will try this. is this just an experiment, or can you explain the intended function of this preference choice?

[d00zah]

USING THREE OPTICAL DRIVES IS A PAIN BECAUSE OF AVOIDABLE STUPID MAKEMKV BEHAVIOR


Make it so when an new instance launches, i can DISABLE AUTOMATIC POLLING, and MANUALLY SELECT a DRIVE/DISC!!!

In MakeMKV preferences > IO tab > check 'Ask for single drive mode' & try again.

i will try this. is this just an experiment, or can you explain the intended function of this preference choice?

When that option is checked, each instance of MakeMKV you launch will ask which ODD you'd like to bind to that instance & not interfere w/ others. Not much of a risk in just trying it, is there?

[etyrnal]

In MakeMKV preferences > IO tab > check 'Ask for single drive mode' & try again.

i will try this. is this just an experiment, or can you explain the intended function of this preference choice?

When that option is checked, each instance of MakeMKV you launch will ask which ODD you'd like to bind to that instance & not interfere w/ others. Not much of a risk in just trying it, is there?

the risk was loosing time.

i tried it. it works well. except for when i eject finished discs, it seems like the binding is lost or something and an instance can land on the wrong ODD again. Like the instance does not STAY exclusively on that one ODD.

[Woodstock]

I've been using this mode for years, and (so far) up to 4 drives in use. Each instance stays bound to its drive, IF YOU REMEMBER TO DO SO at start-up.

It would be nice if you could set up shortcuts to do the auto-bind, but...