Evaluation observations

[WammesWaggel]

Use case: bulk-ripping my DVD/BR collection on multiple drives.

- MakeMKV doesn't like multiple drives. I have to run multiple instances and they all chase the last inserted disc. So even with 2 drives, I have to change one of my MakeMKV instances to the "other" drive EVERY SINGLE TIME. If you mess up once, both instances start fighting over the same drive and WEE-WAAHH-WEE-WAAH that is super-useless. If you're going to keep MakeMKV essentially single-instance as far as drives are concerned, let the poor user LOCK an instance to a drive.
- Aborting any action really doesn't work. I understand wanting to be graceful the first time, but why not throw a TerminateProcess() the second or third time? Any time I have a disc with read issues, or if I gave something a wrong name, I am futzing around like a muppet killing the appropriate CLI process.
- The "Copy Complete" popup is all kinds of wrong. First, captioning a popup "MKV Beta Popup" has been noted by the department of redundancy department. But more importantly, if you pull out the disc before acknowledging this popup, the main window just sits and rots (you just popped a MessageBoxA). If you DO close the popup, it properly recognizes the disc change and goes back to the disc loading screen. Instead of just a MessageBoxA, this should be a custom dialog that closes when it detects the disc being removed. Or, if you don't feel like doing that, the main window should check for the disc still being there right after the Copy Complete dialog closes.
- Entering the name doesn't work right. If you don't hit Enter after changing a track name, it doesn't take. If you do hit it, it works sometimes. It may have something to do with whether you have the disc or track selected, but even then, it STILL is not fool-proof -- ESPECIALLY after a Deselect All because I really only want the main feature. At this point I deselect all, select the main movie track, and go over to the name field. Half the time this is blank, and I type in the full name, and this works about 90% of the time. Half the time it is not, and I've tried to just go, but 50% of the time, it loses the name. So now even if there IS a name in that field, I add something like 'x' just to change it, hit Enter and go. That works about 90% of the time.
- Speaking of that name field, it doesn't trigger off of a text change, just hitting Enter. So if you type in a perfect name and click "Make MKV", haha, joke's on you, whatever you typed is gone because the name change is hanging off of the wrong event. I did DOZENS of discs as A1_T00.mkv before I figured this out.
- Why not have an option upon disc load to just rip the longest title? That's what I want 99.99% of the time and it'd take about 20 minutes to implement.
- Cell walk strategy is an option, but that is idiotic -- 99.999% of the time the default works, but hey, I've hit a disc where it doesn't. Now I have to change a global option to make things terrible, try again, and remember to change them back? Why not just offer a direct chance to do a full cell scan when the rip fails, or a manual DVD open for that matter? I know, that'd be another custom dialog, but seriously...
- Track naming should have more options, like optional suffix digits. I never want to suffix anything with track numbers, unless and until I need them. C.f. 0 and # in .NET languages for reference.

I only tell you this because I love ya. If this was an open source project I'd do all of this myself.

[dcoke22]

Use case: bulk-ripping my DVD/BR collection on multiple drives.

- MakeMKV doesn't like multiple drives. I have to run multiple instances and they all chase the last inserted disc. So even with 2 drives, I have to change one of my MakeMKV instances to the "other" drive EVERY SINGLE TIME. If you mess up once, both instances start fighting over the same drive and WEE-WAAHH-WEE-WAAH that is super-useless. If you're going to keep MakeMKV essentially single-instance as far as drives are concerned, let the poor user LOCK an instance to a drive.

On the IO tab in MakeMKV's preferences, make sure the 'Ask for single drive mode' checkbox is checked.

[Woodstock]

And you can tell MakeMKV to not select titles shorter than a certain size, which can be set pretty high.

Also, have you used the RIGHT-click, Deselect All option yet?