Is there a way to find out the disc year date - ripped with MKV?

[ancient]

Hey all

I have a number of Blu-Ray ripped discs. Often there are newer better quality remastered discs released which I am interested in. The problem is that I get confused whether I already ripped the remastered version!
Is there a way I can find out the disc year date from a ripped MKV?

Any help appreciated.

[flojo]

No. The best you can do is look at "writing_application" in the header editor and guess based on the release version of whatever program it is, but that doesn't really mean anything since you can use use very old versions of mkvmkerge's, handbrake's, etc.

Going forward you could tag the mkv, but I don't think MakeMKV supports tagging and sadly it doesn't support running pre/post scripts, but you could do it yourself. You can create a .xml file then tag the .mkv with mkvpropedit.

Here's an example:

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<Tags><!-- HTML comment - a hidden note to myself about this file -->
  <Tag>
    <Targets>
      <TargetTypeValue>30</TargetTypeValue>
    </Targets>
    <Simple>   <!-- the tag name can be any name you want, not just COMMENT, but COMMENT is _VERY_ common -->
      <Name>COMMENT</Name>
      <String>Today's Date, 2026-01-01</String>
    </Simple>
  </Tag>
</Tags>

Then you would tag your mkv file with:

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mkvpropedit --tags global:tags.xml "my_movie_name.mkv"

[ancient]

Thank you.