Super novice question

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tcharp
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Super novice question

Post by tcharp »

So, after a bunch of help from Billy, I run the MakeMKV thing on my Ghost in the Shell 4K UHD disc. It seemed to work file, but seems to have created 3 slightly different sized copies of the same movie. They all seem to play, but I am sort of curious about why this might be happening. I ran it with the default 120 second skip criteria which I have now changed to be 30 seconds, but this little box had a time with this one
Screenshot 2026-07-09 193410.png
Maybe you can see them here, but I haven't been having a lot of luck with getting screenshots to appear in these messages. (edit: Well, you can't see the screenshot. It created three 52.8 GB .mkv files. All seem to play fine, but they are all a few MB different in size.) I mean, I sure don't need 150gigs of this movie. Which is the best one to save and watch?

Thanks everyone
tomty89
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Re: Super novice question

Post by tomty89 »

You mean like it created three 52.8G MKV files out of one disc in a single rip? Or multiple rips with different versions of MakeMKV? Or multiple rips with the same version of MakeMKV?
but they are all a few MB different in size
What about the video length?

P.S. Please upload your screenshot somewhere else and provide a link here. We can't see attachments.
Flesh
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Re: Super novice question

Post by Flesh »

The version I kept was 1:26:23 in terms of duration, but that was regular Bluray, not 4k. I'm guessing one is the "Japanese" version, other is ENG, and third is... I don't something else that helps sync language a bit better.

Which to keep? Depends if you are a subs or dubs person. I bet if you scroll through the movies a bit you'd notice one has the opening/ending credits in English, the other in Japanese, maybe some signs are also changed up & translated.
tcharp
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Re: Super novice question

Post by tcharp »

It created three approximately 52.8GB viewable MKV files on a single rip.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oIzsOy ... drive_link

According to this, the duration of all the files is the same as well as the bitrate.

Thank you
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