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Well, I've gotten through my whole collection finally. Learned a lot. For example, a LOT of failed rips worked just fine when using a different player. Sometimes only player A worked, sometimes only player B worked. Sometimes good old HP DVD burner was the only one to work. No rhyme or reason.

One disc I can't get to work is Flow, the recent animated cat one. There are 2 disks that each have ~full movie files. 3 of the 4 are "work in progress" types, with the 4th being the movie. Somehow there is director commentary and what seems to be closed captioning but for blind people so a voice announces everything that is happening. This is baked in to the rips but not when watching on a normal player. Any ideas to strip this out?

Flow (2024) has DTS for the main audio according to blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Flow-Blu-ray/362845/). It is often the case that the descriptive audio is a more mundane Dolby Digital track, aka AC3.

Players like Windows Media Player can't play DTS audio by default. There are codec packs that can add that functionality. Or a player like VLC or MPV will play most things be default.

It could be that the .mkv files have both the DTS main audio and the AC3 descriptive audio track but your player can't play the DTS.

The utility MediaInfo can show you lots of details about a .mkv file, including how many and what kind of audio tracks.

Thanks! This was indeed the issue