Windows/VLC integration: Can MakeMKV only integrate one disc at a time?

[RasterEyes]

I have two BD drives in my system. I notice that if I insert two discs at a time (something that's handy for speeding up ripping multiple discs) only the volume name of the first disc inserted appears in Windows Explorer, and VLC can only play content from that disc. MakeMKV handles both discs at the same time just fine, but if I'm trying to play a disc in order to make decisions about which tracks to rip, I'm out of luck with the second disc inserted.

I won't be able to play the second disc with VLC until both discs have been ejected, and the second disc reinserted.

Probably most people only have one optical drive. But for those of us with two (or more), removing this apparent one-disc-at-a-time limitation would be very helpful.

[dcoke22]

Do you have 'ask for single drive mode' checked in MakeMKV's preferences?

I don't know how that will interact with VLC, but it isolates an instance of MakeMKV to a single drive and allows two (or more) instances of MakeMKV to rip from different drives at the same time.

[Billycar11]

I keep forgetting to test this I test 12+ drives a day I will try to remember to try it out see if I can reproduce it

[RasterEyes]

Do you have 'ask for single drive mode' checked in MakeMKV's preferences?

Nope, not checked.

[Billycar11]

ok i have tested it and i am not able to reproduce it works fine for me but i do have ask for single drive mode enabled so try enabling it and see if it works.
tried with 6 drives hooked up and played 3 different movies in 3 different drives top gun mav, Ford vs Ferrari and suicide squad, for some i didnt even paused just went in vlc menu open disc bluray and selected next one some i paused and some i stopped worked each time with no issue. this was tested with the latest vlc and makemkv

[RasterEyes]

ok i have tested it and i am not able to reproduce it works fine for me but i do have ask for single drive mode enabled so try enabling it and see if it works.

Okay, it works for me now when using single-drive mode. It's a bit counter-intuitive that I need single-drive mode to fully use multiple drives at the same time.

[Billycar11]

Okay, it works for me now when using single-drive mode. That's a bit counter-intuitive that I need single-drive mode to fully use multiple drives at the same time.

with 2 drives that what you want anyway to be able to rip 2 discs at once and not have the the program ping each drive and cause it to hang.
really it should be enabled by default would not hurt people with 1 drive and would save alot of email of my drive hangs and goes slow when i open another makemkv

[RasterEyes]

with 2 drives that what you want anyway to be able to rip 2 discs at once and not have the the program ping each drive and cause it to hang.
really it should be enabled by default would not hurt people with 1 drive and would save alot of email of my drive hangs and goes slow when i open another makemkv

I've been getting around that by carefully timing when I inserted opened instances of the app and inserted discs, but got nabbed now and then anyway with two instances accessing the same drive at once. This single-drive mode nicely solves that. I never checked that option before because I didn't realize in was about how many drives each running instance could access, so I thought I'd totally lose access to one of my two drives.

Couldn't you use some kind of inter-process communication so each instance could see which drives other instances were currently using? If that would work, it seems it would solve the problem without needing a special option to deal with the issue.