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K-Pax Kino Lorber BluRay - Hidden extra features?
Posted: Sat Feb 14, 2026 9:20 pm
by Ellusian
Oddest thing - I've tried twice to open and rip the content from the new Kino Lorber bluray release of "K-Pax" (2001) using MakeMKV and its not showing all the files/bonus features.
I can open the disc fine, I can select all the items/files it identifies and rip just fine. But two files/bonus features fail to appear - "The Making of - Photographs by Jeff Bridges" slideshow w/ music, and the ''Storyboards Featurette". I confirmed they exist and work properly by playing the disc in a settop and on desktop software player.
Odd - anyone else experience this, or know of workaround? Thx!
Re: K-Pax Kino Lorber BluRay - Hidden extra features?
Posted: Sun Feb 15, 2026 4:45 pm
by dcoke22
If you make a decrypted backup of the disc (click the icon of the yellow folder with the green arrow on MakeMKV's first screen) in the output you'll find the folder <backup>/BDMV/STREAM/ and in here will be a bunch of .m2ts files. These .m2ts files comprise all the audio and video on a blu-ray. The name of these files are all 5 digit numbers. These correlate to the 'segment map' shown in the info box in MakeMKV when a title is highlighted. A player like VLC will play the .m2ts files.
.mpls files are in the <backup>/BDMV/PLAYLIST/ folder. Some titles are defined by a .mpls file and some titles are only defined by the .m2ts file. A .mpls file can be thought of as a playlist of .m2ts files. The 'source file name' in MakeMKV's info box will show the .mpls or .m2ts file that defines that title.
When MakeMKV interprets a disc, in the log it spits out a bunch of information about titles added or titles skipped. MakeMKV might be getting confused about the disc's structure and accidentally skipping the extras you're looking for.
If you can verify that MakeMKV is accidentally skipping the extras you're looking for you can probably manipulate the decrypted backup to avoid MakeMKV skipping the title in the first place. For instance, a common thing that happens is MakeMKV thinks two things are duplicates of one another and so skips the second one. If this is in error and the skipped item is the one you want, deleting the first item from the backup will prevent MakeMKV from detecting the duplicate in the fist place.
As a side note, you probably need expert mode and debug logging turned on to see all these details.