I have the Blu-ray 'Criminal (2016)' which has only one large file at 27GB. The next largest file is 7.3GB and after ripping and playing both, they have video commentary embedded in the video. There is a second file of 7.3GB but I get Posix reading errors then the usual L-EC uncorrectable errors when trying to copy it. This second 7GB file failed on the first copy. I am trying again and am still getting the errors but it has not failed yet.
I don't know how these discs are created, so I don't know if the 27GB file is not a real file and the 7.3GB file I get errors with is the actual video, or if the 27GB is the file and the commentary video is baked in to the video file somehow.
If anyone can explain how this works and what I should do, I would be grateful? Seems like I need a new disc.
Video commentary baked into video file?
Re: Video commentary baked into video file?
The errors might indicate that that the optical drive is having trouble reading the disc and it should be gently cleaned.
The review of the disc on blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Criminal-Blu-ray/154254/#Review) suggests that there are two 40 minute 'extras' on the disc, one of which they describe as a 'quasi-commentary' with a lot of footage of the film.
The main audio for this disc is DTS audio. If your player can't play DTS audio it might default to an alternative Dolby Digital track in the file which might be descriptive audio or maybe a commentary track. MediaInfo is a handy utility that can show you lots of details about what's in a .mkv file.
The review of the disc on blu-ray.com (https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Criminal-Blu-ray/154254/#Review) suggests that there are two 40 minute 'extras' on the disc, one of which they describe as a 'quasi-commentary' with a lot of footage of the film.
The main audio for this disc is DTS audio. If your player can't play DTS audio it might default to an alternative Dolby Digital track in the file which might be descriptive audio or maybe a commentary track. MediaInfo is a handy utility that can show you lots of details about what's in a .mkv file.
Re: Video commentary baked into video file?
I tried ripping the large file again (which worked before but included the unwanted video commentary) and it failed so I am going to put it down to the disc. I know there are some shenanigans around finding the start of the actual movie due to anti-piracy stuff (which was what I was probably most curious about), so if the error is in the wrong place it might not even find it. I am not worried about the quality of this movie so I will see how it plays in my stand alone player and use a capture card if the quality is ok.
Historically most (99%) of my problems are bad disc's as many of my 700 movies are second hand. The other 1% is usually fixed by changing drives, of which I have two. One old drive and a new one with the super-duper firmware preloaded. I was too lazy to try doing the firmware myself. I find that no drive is particularly better than the other and the 1% problems are fixed just due to the disconnecting and reconnecting of the drive and restarting the software.
Historically most (99%) of my problems are bad disc's as many of my 700 movies are second hand. The other 1% is usually fixed by changing drives, of which I have two. One old drive and a new one with the super-duper firmware preloaded. I was too lazy to try doing the firmware myself. I find that no drive is particularly better than the other and the 1% problems are fixed just due to the disconnecting and reconnecting of the drive and restarting the software.