MakeMKV 1.18.1 archives double-compressed

[STrRedWolf]

The releases of MakeMKV for Linux were run through with GZip twice, making unarchiving them fail if you just use (for example)

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tar xfvz makemkv-oss-1.18.1.tar.gz

To work around this, run "gunzip" on the archive, then rename the files to add the ".gz". Verify with the "file" command (it reads the file to verify what they actually are).

[Nihilus]

Same for 1.18.2.

[16442496]

Same for 1.18.2.

Looks like it is Firefox thing.
Downloading with "wget" it works normal.

[Nihilus]

Indeed. Firefox sends the "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd" header. Pass it to wget and you get double compression as well. The web server does return the "Content-Encoding: gzip" header, so that's weird. Not sure it's supposed to work like that.

Also, to unpack without renaming the intermediate file, just do

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gunzip -c makemkv-oss-1.18.2.tar.gz | tar xvzf -