Chapters not being detected, missing audio, AACS issues

[popejobs]

I've tried to give MakeMKV a fair shake and have tested it with 25 Bluray rips or so. For starters the $50 pricepoint is a bit too optimistic for the buggy condition of the program, not to mention the many people already invested in AnyDVDHD.

1) I'm ending up with some MKV's with no audio track, even after it was there and checkmarked before I clicked makeMKV. It's fully reproducible and I know its not a playback issue because if I load the MKV into tsMuxer or MKVmerge, the audio track just isn't there, it hasn't been muxed in, there's only the video track.

2) Ending up with an MKV with chapterpoints is a big deal for me, and on a majority of the BD's I tested with MakeMKV, it didn't detect the chapters, even though they were very much there in the MPLS files. I really don't feel like muxing in chapterpoints in a second step with another app, so that's kind of a dealbreaker.

3) MakeMKV doesn't seem to want to work with ISO based rips of BD's that did not have AACS removed ahead of time. In other words discs I ripped to HDD with ImgBurn without AnyDVDHD running and de-AACS'ing in the process. So it seems the original disc is a requirement for the AACS removal in MakeMKV. I don't have that issue with AnyDVDHD since they're maintaining a DB of the hashes obviously.

Though I haven't had nearly as many issues when converting some test DVD's to MKV with the program - it consistently picks up the chapterpoints just fine - the push these days is toward BD, so the core functionality has to get nailed down before I'd open my wallet. I'd say forget AACS decryption for now, don't reinvent the wheel, just focus on MKV output and consider integrating x264 based transcoding so people can output to smaller filesizes.

[mike admin]

1) I'm ending up with some MKV's with no audio track, even after it was there and checkmarked before I clicked makeMKV. It's fully reproducible and I know its not a playback issue because if I load the MKV into tsMuxer or MKVmerge, the audio track just isn't there, it hasn't been muxed in, there's only the video track.

You are the first one to report such a problem. For this disc please send all CLPI and MPLS files compressed with archiver of your choice, MKV log (enable in preferences, show debug messages) and output of http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/ for produced MKV file to support@makemkv.com .

2) Ending up with an MKV with chapterpoints is a big deal for me, and on a majority of the BD's I tested with MakeMKV, it didn't detect the chapters, even though they were very much there in the MPLS files. I really don't feel like muxing in chapterpoints in a second step with another app, so that's kind of a dealbreaker.

This is known problem and will be corrected in a next version available very soon.

3) MakeMKV doesn't seem to want to work with ISO based rips of BD's that did not have AACS removed ahead of time. In other words discs I ripped to HDD with ImgBurn without AnyDVDHD running and de-AACS'ing in the process. So it seems the original disc is a requirement for the AACS removal in MakeMKV. I don't have that issue with AnyDVDHD since they're maintaining a DB of the hashes obviously.

MakeMKV doesn't maintain hashes, but it will open ISOs if you provide volume key to it. Set the "AACS keys directory" in preferences and put a text file(s) with volume keys into that folder. The file may be in any format, the easiest way is to download entire topic from http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120988 as html and a file metioned at http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p ... ost1293367 unpacked into that directory. MakeMKV will figure automatically if any of the files contains a valid key and will use it.