A few questions for a newb if someone would be so kind...

[michaeldc]

Sorry to dupe post - put one in the OSX forum as well but I guess this is more of a general question and anyone could potentially help.
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Hi all, I have searched through many posts but struggling to find a few answers as each search brings up about 20 pages of results! I would really appreciate it if someone could help me out just a little...

1. I want to make a backup of one of my blu-rays - in this instance it's Die Hard. I load the disc up, check decrypt video files in full disc backup mode and rip to the hard drive. My log tells me the following:

Automatic SVQ downloading is disabled or failed.
Processing BD+ code, please be patient - this may take up to few minutes
Processing BD+ code using generic SVQ from builtin/00000.svq
BD+ code processed, got 1 FUT(s) for 1 clip(s)

Ok so a couple of questions - SVQ downloading is disabled or failed - presumably failed as I can't find the option to turn it on... is it a problem it has failed, not sure what this line means or if using a generic SVQ is a problem?

What does the 1 FUT for 1 Clip mean exactly?

Finally, it's ripped on my hard drive, is this disc now ready to burn to a blu-ray? Is the copy protection stripped out completely? Is it region free now? (Can't seem to find any info on region stripping here).

I have a BDMV folder and Certificate folder - if using toast is it a matter of simply putting both of these folder into the 'BDMV Folder' template in toast and burning? Looking at my files the certificate folder contains another folder called backup which is empty and there is a makemkv folder too with plenty of files - are either of these needed when burning to a blu-ray disc?

[mike admin]

Ok so a couple of questions - SVQ downloading is disabled or failed - presumably failed as I can't find the option to turn it on... is it a problem it has failed, not sure what this line means or if using a generic SVQ is a problem?

At the moment generic SVQ works only for discs released before January-February 2012. For newer discs you need to enable download of updated disc-specific SVQ. Generic SVQ is updated from time to time.

What does the 1 FUT for 1 Clip mean exactly?

This is a BD+ thing. It means you have 1 clip (main movie) protected by BD+, all trailers were not.

Finally, it's ripped on my hard drive, is this disc now ready to burn to a blu-ray? Is the copy protection stripped out completely? Is it region free now? (Can't seem to find any info on region stripping here).

Sort of. AACS and BD+ copy protection is removed, but none of the other (java) content is touched. If the disc had a java/region protection it will stay there.

I have a BDMV folder and Certificate folder - if using toast is it a matter of simply putting both of these folder into the 'BDMV Folder' template in toast and burning?

If you burn these files, the disc will "likely" play. However MakeMKV's backup mode is not designed to produce a set of files for burning. It's much easier to use a tool like multiavchd to create an AVCHD set of files from decrypted backup that can be put to USB flash drive. You'll loose the menus but you'll get a set of files on a flash drive that can be played by pretty much anything theses days. And it takes minutes.

Looking at my files the certificate folder contains another folder called backup which is empty and there is a makemkv folder too with plenty of files - are either of these needed when burning to a blu-ray disc?

These are protection-related files that were removed by MakeMKV.