MakeMKV crash trying to save missing episode from Great British Railway Journeys

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outlier
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MakeMKV crash trying to save missing episode from Great British Railway Journeys

Post by outlier » Thu Jan 30, 2025 7:46 am

There's a DVD set of Series 1-4 of Great British Railway Journeys. On one of the discs there's an episode that doesn't get saved. In normal mode it reports the following:

Title information
1: 1/1 - 1 chapter(s) 0:00:10 1 cell(s)
2: 2/1 - 1 chapter(s) 0:00:10 1 cell(s)
3: 3/1 - 1 chapter(s) 0:00:08 1 cell(s)
4: 4/1 - 1 chapter(s) 0:00:00 1 cell(s)
5: 5/1 - 5 chapter(s) 0:29:11 5 cell(s)
6: 6/1 - 5 chapter(s) 0:29:20 5 cell(s)
7: 7/1 - 5 chapter(s) 0:29:13 5 cell(s)
8: 8/1 - 5 chapter(s) 0:29:12 5 cell(s)
9: 9/1 - 5 chapter(s) 0:00:00 5 cell(s)
10: 10/1 - 2 chapter(s) 0:00:22 2 cell(s)

The episode that gets filtered out is #9. I'm able to save the episode if I opt for manual mode and specify "9:1-5", though if I use something else that doesn't specify the chapters (e.g., "5 6 7 8 9") then MakeMKV crashes:

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: makemkvcon64.exe
Application Version: 1.17.8.0
Application Timestamp: 66f872a2
Fault Module Name: makemkvcon64.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.17.8.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 66f872a2
Exception Code: c0000094
Exception Offset: 00000000001e2a95

dcoke22
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Re: MakeMKV crash trying to save missing episode from Great British Railway Journeys

Post by dcoke22 » Wed Feb 12, 2025 9:43 pm

I wonder if the different DVD Opening modes have any effect?

remoteneeded
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Re: MakeMKV crash trying to save missing episode from Great British Railway Journeys

Post by remoteneeded » Tue Jul 08, 2025 9:13 pm

outlier - thanks for the information as I hit the same problem tonight and "9:1-5" saved the title for me too.
dcoke22 - I tried every DVD opening mode but it didn't work, title 9 still shows up as having zero duration.

pandrhola
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Re: MakeMKV crash trying to save missing episode from Great British Railway Journeys

Post by pandrhola » Wed Jul 30, 2025 8:33 am

That episode (#slope game9) has some kind of metadata issue that makes MakeMKV skip or misread it in normal mode. I’ve run into something similar with other BBC sets where one of the titles has a duration of 0:00:00 but still contains valid video.

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