Life is Sweet UK bluray - huge number main title playlists

[morbius]

just opened the UK bluray release of the Mike Leigh film "Life is Sweet" with 1.17.4 on Win 10, there is a bit of a delay as makemkv trys to work through BD+ processing, then eventually I get a very long list of main title playlists. Similar behaviour with 1.17.3 on macOS. Any suggestions for a workaround?

thanks.

[morbius]

just to add to this, I have Java installed and VLC integration. VLC shows the disc menu instantly and I'm all set to play the main title, yet on the same machine makemkv seems to be terribly confused. Looking at the number of playlist posts on the forum, is fake playlist management something that's not really working with makemkv at present?

[Billycar11]

just to add to this, I have Java installed and VLC integration. VLC shows the disc menu instantly and I'm all set to play the main title, yet on the same machine makemkv seems to be terribly confused. Looking at the number of playlist posts on the forum, is fake playlist management something that's not really working with makemkv at present?

Do you have makemkv pointed at java in the settings?

[morbius]

yes, makemkv is picking up my Java installation. Without the path specified in the Protection tab makemkv picks it up, I also set it manually and same result, I do notice that makemkv seems to hang for a while, and then eventually gives me an extremely long list of playlists with nothing that points to the correct one. VLC player on the other hand just works.

Here is an extract from the log, I'll spare posting the whole thing as there are a lot of playlists, and makemkv can't find the main feature.

Debug log started at Mon Jun 26 19:34:07 2023 , written by MakeMKV v1.17.4 win(x64-release)
001005:0000 MakeMKV v1.17.4 win(x64-release) started
001004:0000 Debug logging enabled, log will be saved as file://C:\Users\XXXXX/MakeMKV_log.txt
Using 262272KB for read cache.
Network access is ENABLED, CURL version 7.72.0/Schannel/1.41.0 (x86_64-pc-win32) , proxy server not set.
WinCdArb=v1.2.0_tiny win(x64-release)
DEBUG: Code 3 at w.G,[.W,J~s[OWwzq<.Q$D1P:29395310
SDF v098: ASUS_BW-16D1HT_3.10_211901041014_KL5K9OI4343
SDFW: SET_SPEED Asked=5120 Selected=13568 MSV=0x02
DEBUG: Code 3 at w.G,[.W,J~s[OWwzq<.Q$D1P:29395310
SDF v098: ASUS_BW-16D1HT_3.10_211901041014_KL5K9OI4343
001011:0000 Using LibreDrive mode (v06.3 id=0FA242DD4D0B)
SDFW: SET_SPEED Asked=5120 Selected=8960 MSV=0x02
003007:0000 Using direct disc access mode
005085:0000 Loaded content hash table, will verify integrity of M2TS files.
DEBUG: Code 2147483648 at Nx*e^{R_\6h/]Oy7:121265499
Found java version=1.8.0.371 path=C:\Program Files\Java\jre-1.8\bin\java.exe
Found java version=1.8.0.371 path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath\java.exe
003344:0000 Using Java runtime from C:\Program Files\Java\jre-1.8\bin\java.exe
DISCID=7F22129EAE1B348CCA9740946E911AA0AD8FF770
SDFW: SET_SPEED Asked=5120 Selected=8960 MSV=0x02
003307:0000 File 00002.mpls was added as title #0
SDFW: SET_SPEED Asked=5120 Selected=8960 MSV=0x02
003307:0000 File 00003.mpls was added as title #1
003025:0000 Title #00004.mpls has length of 0 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 60 seconds and was therefore skipped
SDFW: SET_SPEED Asked=5120 Selected=8960 MSV=0x02
003307:0000 File 00005.mpls was added as title #2
003025:0000 Title #00010.mpls has length of 2 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 60 seconds and was therefore skipped
SDFW: SET_SPEED Asked=5120 Selected=8960 MSV=0x02
003307:0000 File 00430.mpls was added as title #3
SDFW: SET_SPEED Asked=5120 Selected=8960 MSV=0x02
003307:0000 File 00675.mpls was added as title #4
SDFW: SET_SPEED Asked=5120 Selected=8960 MSV=0x02
003307:0000 File 00964.mpls was added as title #5
003307:0000 File 00000.mpls was added as title #6
003025:0000 Title #00001.mpls has length of 20 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 60 seconds and was therefore skipped
003307:0000 File 00007.mpls was added as title #7
003307:0000 File 00009.mpls was added as title #8
003307:0000 File 00024.mpls was added as title #9
003307:0000 File 00029.mpls was added as title #10
003307:0000 File 00030.mpls was added as title #11
003307:0000 File 00032.mpls was added as title #12
003307:0000 File 00036.mpls was added as title #13

....

003307:0000 File 00992.mpls was added as title #406
003307:0000 File 00994.mpls was added as title #407
003025:0000 Title #00007.m2ts has length of 0 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 60 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #00011.m2ts has length of 30 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 60 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #00101.m2ts has length of 10 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 60 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #00102.m2ts has length of 10 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 60 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #00103.m2ts has length of 12 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 60 seconds and was therefore skipped
SDFW: SET_SPEED Asked=5120 Selected=8960 MSV=0x02
003307:0000 File 00502.m2ts was added as title #408
SDFW: SET_SPEED Asked=5120 Selected=8960 MSV=0x02
003307:0000 File 00520.m2ts was added as title #409
005011:0000 Operation successfully completed
Application exited at Mon Jun 26 19:37:48 2023

[dcoke22]

In the past, the program's author has asked for folks to send in certain details when this happens so MakeMKV might be improved.

"Fake playlist" protection - help needed

[morbius]

thanks for a reminder about that post, I've sent in a link to an upload of the relevant files in case a future version of makemkv can handle this title.

[morbius]

just giving this thread a bump, had hoped that 1.17.5 might do better with playlist obfuscation, but in spite of makemkv picking up my Java installation I'm still getting a massive number of playlists on this title with none indicated as a main feature. I did submit an upload as suggested, happy to do so again if it was incomplete.

[dannythefrog]

Did you ever get this sorted? The title isn't on the disc info website and I can't seem to work it out either. I know this is an old thread, but hopefully not too old... This thread is the only mention of this disc on the entire web

UPDATE:

Well, turns out I was wrong! I misunderstood the Java thing (duh!) and although there was no 'main movie' marker it turns out that 'T1' 00964.mpls isthe main movie, T5 00675 is the commentary, and T6 or 00430 is the 'audio only' interview.

This is a steep learning curve for me even though I've been onto DVDs for years. I assume that in order to restore the commentary as a second track to the main movie, and extract the audio, I'll have to do some sort of MKVToolNix shuffling?

UPDATE - For my own benefit, YES, remuxed commentary went well, although the 'audio only' is very unhappy to be imported into audacity as raw, even with the settings reported by mediainfo (PCM, 16 bits, 2 channel 48k etc...). It plays fine as it is with VLC so lets assume Kodi will too, just with a jarring cut to the remaining movie audio after an hour. I'm going to leave it unedited

All this effort for a 1990 made-for-TV film!!!