[UHD] Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2 (French edition, AACS v70) – Endless analysis, invalid M2TS

[johnraz]

Disc: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 (French UHD edition)

Hi everyone,

I'm experiencing a reproducible issue with the French 4K UHD Blu-ray edition of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.

MakeMKV cannot complete the initial disc analysis. It repeatedly reports invalid M2TS data, and the debug log keeps growing until I manually cancel the operation.

1. Environment

• MakeMKV: 2.0.0 (Windows x64)
• Drive: Pioneer BDR-UD04 (Verbatim external enclosure)
• Firmware: 1.14, original/unpatched
• LibreDrive: Enabled (v02.1)
• Disc label: HUNGER GAMES LA REVOLTE PARTIE 2
• Protection: AACS 2.0/C v70
• Disc type: UHD BD-ROM, 3 layers, 93.21 GB
• Internet access: Enabled
• Direct disc access: Enabled

2. Problem and errors

MakeMKV repeatedly reports corrupt or invalid data in /BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts.

The problem occurs during the initial disc analysis, before the title list is displayed.

The analysis never completes and the debug log grows continuously. I manually cancelled it after the log reached approximately 70 MB.

3. Relevant log excerpts

MakeMKV initialization

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Debug log started at Sun Nov 01 15:01:21 2026, written by MakeMKV v2.0.0 win(x64-release)
001005:0000 MakeMKV v2.0.0 win(x64-release) started
Using 262272KB for read cache.
Network access is ENABLED, CURL version 7.72.0/Schannel/1.41.0 (x86_64-pc-win32), proxy server not set.
001011:0000 Using LibreDrive mode (v02.1 id=REDACTED)
003007:0000 Using direct disc access mode
005085:0000 Loaded content hash table, will verify integrity of M2TS files.

M2TS errors

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004004:0000 The source file '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' is corrupt or invalid at offset 0, attempting to work around
004004:0000 The source file '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' is corrupt or invalid at offset 0, attempting to work around
004004:0000 The source file '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' is corrupt or invalid at offset 0, attempting to work around

Similar errors subsequently occur at offsets 6144, 12288 and 18432.

Failed title analysis – playlist

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005043:0000 Failed to decode audio/video data for title #0 - invalid mux or internal error, title skipped.
003016:0000 Title #00000.mpls was skipped
003025:0000 Title #00004.mpls has length of 25 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped

Failed title analysis – direct M2TS

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005043:0000 Failed to decode audio/video data for title #0 - invalid mux or internal error, title skipped.
003016:0000 Title #00000.m2ts was skipped
003025:0000 Title #00001.m2ts has length of 11 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #00002.m2ts has length of 13 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
003025:0000 Title #00003.m2ts has length of 107 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped

Other M2TS errors observed in earlier attempts

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The source file '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' is corrupt or invalid at offset 6144, attempting to work around
The source file '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' is corrupt or invalid at offset 12288, attempting to work around
The source file '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' is corrupt or invalid at offset 12288-18432, attempting to work around
The source file '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' is corrupt or invalid at offset 18432, attempting to work around
Too many AV synchronization issues in file '/BDMV/STREAM/00005.m2ts' (title #-) , future messages will be printed only to log file

Debug log summary

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MakeMKV version: 2.0.0
Log size: approximately 70 MB
Corrupt or invalid messages: 1279
Explicit SCSI errors: 0
Explicit hash-check failures: 0
Unknown volume key messages: 0
AACS dump generated: No
Failed to decode audio/video data: 2
Analysis completed: No (manually cancelled)

The counts above are based on text searches of the captured log.

4. Troubleshooting performed

• Connected the drive directly to a motherboard USB port — same issue.
• Created a full backup with "Decrypt video files" enabled — backup reportedly completed successfully.
• Opening the backup locally reproduces the M2TS errors.
• VLC cannot play the backed-up M2TS files.
• MediaInfo identifies only the filename and size of 00005.m2ts, without detecting audio/video tracks.
• Xreveal with KEYDB reports "The decryption key was not found".
• No MKB20_v70_*.tgz AACS dump was generated or found.

5. Potentially related reports

I found a potentially related report concerning the Italian UHD edition with AACS v70:

Mockingjay Part 2 UHD – Italian edition

In that case, the user reported successfully using BDKey + Xreveal + MakeMKV.

However, unlike that case, my MakeMKV logs do not report an unknown volume key or generate an AACS dump.

There are also reports of difficulties ripping the French UHD edition using other drives.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[Woodstock]

First, you're using the buggy version of MakeMKV. Try the rip with version 1.18 or 1.17. If you don't have it, you can download it from here.

Also, clean the disk. While version 2.0.0 has problems, some of the errors you received are read errors, which mean your drive is having trouble reading the disk.

[johnraz]

Hey !

Thanks a lot for the response, I tried with both 1.18 and 2.0.0 and got the same error.

I also managed to make a backup of the disk. Same errors are showing when trying to rip the backup file so I doubt its related to a dirty disk, it’s brand new and spotless…

Any other clues ?

Cheers

[MartyMcNuts]

Hey !

Thanks a lot for the response, I tried with both 1.18 and 2.0.0 and got the same error.

I also managed to make a backup of the disk. Same errors are showing when trying to rip the backup file so I doubt its related to a dirty disk, it’s brand new and spotless…

Any other clues ?

Cheers

Clean the disc. A brand new disc, fresh out of the box is usually when it needs to be cleaned. Often, UHD discs have an invisible layer of film on them from the manufacturing process that needs to be cleaned off.

[johnraz]

Tried cleaning the disk with water and soft tissues, exact same error still :/

[MartyMcNuts]

Tried cleaning the disk with water and soft tissues, exact same error still :/

Try a different drive. As silly as it sounds, some drives just don't like some discs and won't read them, yet they can work fine in another drive.

So, your options are to:

1. Try a different drive
2. Get a replacement disc.

[johnraz]

Well I don't have any other drive available...
I don't understand how it can make a backup of the all disk and error the same way on the hard drive backup if it's a read error?
Anyway, will resort to read this one from my PS5.
Thanks again for the feed-back!

[MartyMcNuts]

Well I don't have any other drive available...
I don't understand how it can make a backup of the all disk and error the same way on the hard drive backup if it's a read error?
Anyway, will resort to read this one from my PS5.
Thanks again for the feed-back!

You were lucky the backup even completed. Normally it would fail with the same error. The backup must still have the same problem section.

[johnraz]

FWIW, I found this thread on reddit where the guy seems to have the same issue with the same disk and he seem
s to have bought the disk 3 times

https://www.reddit.com/r/makemkv/s/S6MpDzSEYa

Might be the disk that has something special the drive doesn’t like

[MartyMcNuts]

FWIW, I found this thread on reddit where the guy seems to have the same issue with the same disk and he seem
s to have bought the disk 3 times

https://www.reddit.com/r/makemkv/s/S6MpDzSEYa

Might be the disk that has something special the drive doesn’t like

Nothing special on the disc. Could just be a bad pressing. There are some. The LotR set comes to mind.