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I have an original DVD for the movie "2010: The Year We Make Contact", and I'm trying to rip the main movie to my NAS. I start the rip operation, but the output file still has 0 bytes several minutes after starting the rip. The "read rate" fluctuates around at round 8 M/s indicating that it is reading data. Then after about 5 minutes of an empty out file file, all of a sudden data starts showing up in the MKV output file.

This is the only movie I've ever seen that has this really long delay before any data is written. Is there any explanation as to what MakeMKV might be doing during this time?

Most likely cause is that MakeMKV is having trouble reading the beginning of the program, then gets past that.

At the readspeed did there by chance was "RipGuard" added after the speed?

Seval DVDs I possess have the RipGuard protection, this is, unreadable sectors. And some are placed in the first thousand sectors. With my DVDs MakeMKV also got really slow there, because it skips sector after sector of the protected parts, but then reads the rest of the disc just fine.