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Hi all,

It pains me to make my first post about an issue but this one has me stumped. I have a Mission to Mars (2000) DVD and MakeMKV (1.8.11/Win7 x64) does not list the correct title as an option to select after it scans the disc. The correct title (as VLC player reports) is title 01 but that is not an option to select in MakeMKV. Is there a way to manually pick/force a title? Here is what the log shows:

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Debug log started at Mon Jul 28 16:58:16 2014 , written by MakeMKV v1.8.11 win(x64-release)
Using 524544KB for read cache.
001005:0000 MakeMKV v1.8.11 win(x64-release) started
001004:0000 Debug logging enabled, log will be saved as C:\Users\Backslash/MakeMKV_log.txt
003007:0000 Using direct disc access mode
Title skip vts=5 pgcn=1 hash=A881A3249FC1EE9B
003025:0000 Title #2 has length of 5 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #3 has length of 9 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003028:0000 Title #4 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:16)
003028:0000 Title #5 was added (2 cell(s), 0:02:16)
003028:0000 Title #6 was added (2 cell(s), 0:02:16)
003028:0000 Title #7 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:16)
Title skip vts=8 pgcn=1 hash=D11D6222C13B9C28
Title skip vts=8 pgcn=5 hash=7D811FD3D1DB31C8
Title skip vts=8 pgcn=7 hash=A1EF5BAC6929C198
003025:0000 Title #12 has length of 36 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003028:0000 Title #12/1 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:13)
003028:0000 Title #12/2 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:12)
003028:0000 Title #13 was added (1 cell(s), 0:07:10)
003028:0000 Title #13/1 was added (1 cell(s), 0:07:10)
003028:0000 Title #13/2 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:48)
003028:0000 Title #13/3 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:48)
Title skip vts=8 pgcn=3 hash=DCF9C6F5A254A51F
Title skip vts=8 pgcn=9 hash=018EF3EF8A6670F7
Title skip vts=8 pgcn=11 hash=D6720BF935297DAD
003028:0000 Title #17 was added (3 cell(s), 0:20:57)
003028:0000 Title #18 was added (4 cell(s), 0:10:38)
003028:0000 Title #18/1 was added (2 cell(s), 0:09:58)
003027:0000 Title 2 in VTS 6 is equal to title 1 and was skipped
003027:0000 Title 2 in VTS 7 is equal to title 2 and was skipped
003027:0000 Title 2 in VTS 7 is equal to title 2 and was skipped
001003:0020 DEBUG: Code 233 at LkxJFrsT4zMBmLLTFlAwwpVf:0
001003:0020 DEBUG: Code 233 at HeLnMsdlMKRwP3i8mNva1tqH:0
005011:0000 Operation successfully completed
Application exited at Mon Jul 28 16:59:37 2014

Thanks for having a look!

Most likely, there is something weird with the mastering of this disk.

Follow the instructions in the FAQ in my signature to send the IFO files and the log to Mike, so that he can look at them.

Thanks for the reply Woodstock!

I followed your advice and sent an email to support about it. I tried to attach the files (log/IFO) here as well just for records sake but got an error about quota limit. Files are <100k so not sure what's up there.

I'll follow up here with more information as it's available.

Guess Mike will have to clean out his mailbox if you're getting an over-quota message.

Update: I received a reply from support and the suggestion was to use a trick to get MakeMKV to stop skipping titles during the scan. If you watch the log, you will see that usually MakeMKV will skip titles shorter than X or ones that look the same as Y. Presumably this trick will prevent any title skipping and let you choose whatever title you want.

You can follow the directions here to enable it yourself. Unfortunately (at least for me) this did not actually prevent title skipping. During the scan the usual short titles were skipped along with the one I actually wanted. The debug log seems to show the trick was enabled (see below) but no dice.

I'd be interested to see if anyone can get it to work for them. You will want to scan a DVD without the trick enabled at least once to confirm MakeMKV skips some titles, then enable the trick and try again.

== MakeMKV Log (w/debugging)
Debug log started at Wed Jul 30 15:47:28 2014 , written by MakeMKV v1.8.11 win(x64-release)
Using 524544KB for read cache.
001005:0000 MakeMKV v1.8.11 win(x64-release) started
001004:0000 Debug logging enabled, log will be saved as C:\Users\Backslash/MakeMKV_log.txt
001002:0000 LIBMKV_TRACE: Will keep all titles
003007:0000 Using direct disc access mode
Title skip vts=5 pgcn=1 hash=A881A3249FC1EE9B
003025:0000 Title #2 has length of 5 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #3 has length of 9 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003028:0000 Title #4 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:16)
003028:0000 Title #5 was added (2 cell(s), 0:02:16)
003028:0000 Title #6 was added (2 cell(s), 0:02:16)
003028:0000 Title #7 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:16)
003025:0000 Title #9 has length of 4 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #10 has length of 8 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #11 has length of 12 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #12 has length of 36 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003028:0000 Title #12/1 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:13)
003028:0000 Title #12/2 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:12)
003028:0000 Title #13 was added (1 cell(s), 0:07:10)
003028:0000 Title #13/1 was added (1 cell(s), 0:07:10)
003028:0000 Title #13/2 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:48)
003028:0000 Title #13/3 was added (1 cell(s), 0:02:48)
003025:0000 Title #14 has length of 8 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #15 has length of 23 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #16 has length of 6 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003028:0000 Title #17 was added (3 cell(s), 0:20:57)
003028:0000 Title #18 was added (4 cell(s), 0:10:38)
003028:0000 Title #18/1 was added (2 cell(s), 0:09:58)
003027:0000 Title 2 in VTS 6 is equal to title 1 and was skipped
003027:0000 Title 2 in VTS 7 is equal to title 2 and was skipped
003027:0000 Title 2 in VTS 7 is equal to title 2 and was skipped
001003:0020 DEBUG: Code 233 at CxNUNWsWkG6fYwLuX07Zm2AF:0
001003:0020 DEBUG: Code 233 at 4FdoH3OqhvxmSrSMTKoz65P9:0
005011:0000 Operation successfully completed
Application exited at Wed Jul 30 16:03:10 2014


PS. Just to be clear, the quota error I mentioned was from me trying to attach the files to the forums; not from the support email addy.

Update: It looks like the 1.8.12 (8/16/2014) update to MakeMKV fixed the problem! Since posting the issue with "Mission to Mars" I had also discovered the same issue with "The Rescuers Down Under" DVD which is now working with this update.

You guys are awesome!!