How can I get all 3 titles of the DVD disc to be selected?

[keriah]

I am running MakeMKV v1.16.3 on a MacBook Air running High Sierra (10.13.6).

When I launch the MakeMKV app I don't see an interface that matches what is posted here in the "Online Help" tab. What I do find is a screen that presents my mounted DVD (described in the log text below as being "opened in OS access mode"). When I click the disc icon it starts a scan that passes through some 86 titles.

At the end, I am presented a hierarchy of the "DVD disc" with one 5-chapter Title (checked). (see attached screenshot) When I click the Make MKV button to the right it creates a single file named "title_t00.mkv" in my designated target location.

When I play the video it is a correctly-rendered video but only one of the 3 titles on the DVD source.

How can I get all 3 titles selected/rendered?

Thank you.

[Woodstock]

What do you have set in preferences for the minimum title length?

How long is each episode? 2.2GB might be multiple episodes, or it could be one, depending on the title.You cut off the log part, which would give this information.

[keriah]

What do you have set in preferences for the minimum title length?

900 seconds.

The first time I ran the app I had it set to the default and it had so many "titles" found I set the threshold higher (900 sec.). I believe it still only presented me with that one video but I can run it again if that helps.

How long is each episode?

Each of the 3 titles is 48 minutes (or a bit more - 50 minutes) -- it's a standard "TV series"-type video length.

2.2GB might be multiple episodes, or it could be one, depending on the title.You cut off the log part, which would give this information.

I've attached a copy of the log as a .txt file.

Thanks!

[Woodstock]

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Title #18 was added (5 cell(s), 0:48:03)
Title #26 was added (5 cell(s), 0:48:03)
Title #34 was added (5 cell(s), 0:48:03)
Title #42 was added (5 cell(s), 0:48:03)
Title #50 was added (5 cell(s), 0:48:03)
Title #58 was added (5 cell(s), 0:48:03)
Title #66 was added (5 cell(s), 0:48:03)
Title #74 was added (5 cell(s), 0:48:03)
Title #82 was added (5 cell(s), 0:48:03)

According to this, it found 8 episodes on the disk, which seems a bit excessive for a DVD. Do they not show up in the left hand menu?

[keriah]

According to this, it found 8 episodes on the disk, which seems a bit excessive for a DVD.

Exactly! There aren't 8 videos on this disc. Note that all these log entries show the same length (48:03). I believe these are all the same video.

There are 3 actual videos on the disc (ignoring, for now, the small snippets such as intro and extras). When I check the disc with VLC it finds 87 items, most of which have very short times.

When I check each of the 3 videos in VLC as the episode is playing, I find that:

• episode 4-1 on the DVD menu is entry 71 with a length of 48:12

• episode 4-2 on the DVD menu is entry 3 with a length of 48:12

• episode 4-3 on the DVD menu is entry 4 with a length of 48:09

Episode 4-3 (entry 4) is the one that MakeMKV is giving me. It isn't finding the other 2.

Do they not show up in the left hand menu?

I don't have a left hand menu. This is what I see at launch:

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[keriah]

According to this, it found 8 episodes on the disk, ...

I looked back at the log file now that I have VLC's identification of the valid episode title numbers. The first log entry for a title begins with:

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Title #4 was added (5 cell(s), 0:48:03)

That length is then the repeated length for the rest of the "Title #nn was added." entries.

There is no entry in the log for Title#3. And there is no entry in the log for Title #71. These are the two missing videos.

Here is the part of the log around where Title #71 should appear:

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...
Title #70 has length of 11 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 900 seconds and was therefore skipped
CellWalk algorithm failed (structure protection is too tough?), trying CellTrim algorithm
Cells 1-1 were removed from title start
Title #74 was added (5 cell(s), 0:48:03)
...

I don't know what to conclude from this.