Anyone else having issues with automatically downloading the HK file? I've ensured the "Enable internet access" box is checked under the General tab in settings.
MakeMKV gets stuck on "Downloading latest HK to ..." and then times out. Haven't had this issue before.
Automatic HK downloading is disabled or failed.
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I successfully downloaded the latest HK file earlier this week.
Some people have routers with geoIP blocking turned on; the HK file is downloaded from Russia and will likely get caught by that.
Some folks have ISPs that do a similar thing and block it. If the ISP won't let you turn that off, you're left with trying a VPN. You might have to try more than one output location on the VPN since some other network provider might also helpfully block your connection.
Some people have sophisticated DNS setups that sometimes trip things up.
Some people have routers with geoIP blocking turned on; the HK file is downloaded from Russia and will likely get caught by that.
Some folks have ISPs that do a similar thing and block it. If the ISP won't let you turn that off, you're left with trying a VPN. You might have to try more than one output location on the VPN since some other network provider might also helpfully block your connection.
Some people have sophisticated DNS setups that sometimes trip things up.
Re: Automatic HK downloading is disabled or failed.
What’s interesting is I’ve been using MakeMKV for years and have always been able to download the HK file with no issues. This is the first time I’ve seen this happen for me. I guess I’ll stick with manual downloads for the interim until I implement another solution to bypass (if my provider is the issue).
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I can't believe I was so dumb.
It's been a few months since I had to rip a 4K disc and since then, I had enabled region blocking on my UDM Pro. It had completely slipped my mind.
Thank you so much for mentioning the geo-blocking and Russia!
I re-enabled and HK downloaded perfectly.
Thanks again!
It's been a few months since I had to rip a 4K disc and since then, I had enabled region blocking on my UDM Pro. It had completely slipped my mind.
Thank you so much for mentioning the geo-blocking and Russia!
I re-enabled and HK downloaded perfectly.
Thanks again!
Re: Automatic HK downloading is disabled or failed.
Interesting note for anyone else struggling here, I use privateinternetaccess to route all my traffic, and I was unable to download the HK file while on it (they don't, as far as I can tell, do any kind of geoblocking, kinda the opposite of how they roll), and found that I had to be OFF the VPN to download the update. Straight through the ISP works fine, but via VPN fails every time. I got the latest update and scp'd it around to my other machines, and it's working fine. But seemingly sometimes VPN is the opposite of the solution here. Bit annoying as I have my network segmented into vlans and I had to change some routing rules to get it to go through, but I got it. Guess I have to do this every time I need an update. KEYDB.cfg is a good alternative, and has mostly served me well, just had some discs that haven't hit that file yet. Hopefully I can get some dumps in the right hands and get those discs working with keydb.