Problems with the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Lionsgate DVDs

[vellutoblu]

Recently I have started to rip the 80s animated TMNT series put out by Lionsgate starting back in 2004 or so, but I have run into a strange new problem for myself.

I can post all my specs later and the MakeMKV log but the gist of it is that the discs will rip fine, seemingly without problems generating a bunch of MKVs, one for each episode etc. The files play fine on my computer. But when I try to play them on my Sony Blu-ray player loaded on a USB stick, only the first few seconds play and then it locks up, where I am forced to unplug the player to get it to restart.

This is how I watch everything and haven't run into this particular error before; I rip a disc with MakeMKV, back it up on a drive, and then copy what I want to watch onto the USB to be played on the Blu-ray player. It always plays MKVs flawlessly and the original discs themselves play fine so I am wondering if it's some kind of unique protection / DRM that Lionsgate uses.

I could just watch them on my computer but I prefer the Blu-ray / DVD player. In the rare case that an MKV file won't play there (not a ripped one but something found from another source let's say) it will usually tell me instantly that it cannot be played or that it is corrupt, etc. But here it just starts playing until the freezing just a few seconds later.

Has anyone encountered this before with Lionsgate Ninja Turtles DVDs or Lionsgate titles in general? Thanks, and I will try to provide more info as soon as I can.

Here is the log for this, I only ripped the first title for the purposes of this test:

MakeMKV v1.14.4 win(x64-release) started
Error 'Scsi error - ILLEGAL REQUEST:READ OF SCRAMBLED SECTOR WITHOUT AUTHENTICATION' occurred while reading 'BD-RE HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH14NS40 1.00' at offset '1048576'
Error 'Scsi error - ILLEGAL REQUEST:READ OF SCRAMBLED SECTOR WITHOUT AUTHENTICATION' occurred while reading 'BD-RE HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH14NS40 1.00' at offset '1048576'
Error 'Scsi error - ILLEGAL REQUEST:READ OF SCRAMBLED SECTOR WITHOUT AUTHENTICATION' occurred while reading 'BD-RE HL-DT-ST BD-RE WH14NS40 1.00' at offset '1048576'
Using direct disc access mode
LibreDrive firmware support is not yet available for this drive (id=AE5337C4A705)
Title #1 was added (2 cell(s), 0:22:50)
Title #2 was added (2 cell(s), 0:22:47)
Title #3 was added (2 cell(s), 0:22:48)
Title #4 was added (2 cell(s), 0:22:47)
Title #5 was added (3 cell(s), 0:22:46)
Title #6 was added (2 cell(s), 0:23:34)
Title #7 was added (2 cell(s), 0:23:35)
Title #8 was added (2 cell(s), 0:23:27)
Title #9 was added (2 cell(s), 0:23:35)
Title #10 was added (1 cell(s), 0:00:13)
Title #11 was added (2 cell(s), 0:00:11)
Title #12 was added (1 cell(s), 0:00:10)
Title #13 was added (2 cell(s), 0:00:11)
Title #14 was added (1 cell(s), 0:00:10)
Title #15 was added (1 cell(s), 0:00:13)
Operation successfully completed
Saving 1 titles into directory B:/Video/TEENAGE_MUTANT_NINJA_TURTLES
1 titles saved

I do sometimes receive the Scsi error but it will still rip and play, the only exception being if it flat out says the title failed to rip. So I have a successful rip but failing to play on a Blu-ray player where everything else has played fine for probably over 100 discs, tried multiple USB sticks so it's definitely something with the disc.. any ideas?

[vellutoblu]

Update: Looks like I may have solved the problem. I simply re-muxed one episode as a test using MKVToolNIx on the default settings and that fixed it. I even tested it side-by-side with the original file, that one still caused the lockup while the other was fine. So, there you go I guess.... only had a sliver of hope that it would work but it did the trick.