Hancock BR - 4 videos but which one to pick?

[pcolmer]

I'm guessing that the disc contains different versions, e.g. uncut, but I just want to keep the one that would play if I wanted to watch the main version off the Blu-Ray menu. They are actually different versions because the sizes are slightly different.

How can I find out which one that is, please?

Many thanks.

Philip

[Ripman]

I used the second one - title01, which was the unrated special edition. It uses 00002.mpls, and the following segments: 123, 141, 125, 142, 127, 143, 129, 144, 131, 145, 133, 146, 135, 147, 137, 148, 139, 149, 150. It has a running time of 1.42.14.

The main feature is listed as t00, and is the first entry listed in MakeMKV tagged as the "primary title."

[pcolmer]

Many thanks, Ripman.

Out of interest, was there a method you used to know which one was which? Since posting yesterday, I've now found more of my Blu-Rays (which I'm freshly converting to MKV) have multiple playlists, e.g. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (both parts) plus other BRs. If there is a general approach I can take, rather than posting to the forum each time I get stuck, that would be brilliant.

[SamuriHL]

The quickest method is to have something like PowerDVD and Process Monitor running. Load up the movie and watch proc mon to see which playlist file is accessed.

[Ripman]

Check the threads here for some of the newer releases; the folks are usually on the new titles very quickly (google "makemkv movie").

Samuri's method always works too.