trial expired within a few days and wasn't able to try it on bluray?

[mazzo]

Hi folks

I have an M4 imac, verbatim 43888.

I have some blurays I wanted to try to make sure worked before purchasing. I don't have a telly, so I don't have a regular blu-ray player, and have no choice but to use imac.

I downloaded the MakeMKV trial for mac, and it let me see dvds fine, great. But I couldn't figure out how to do the blu-ray, so I took a couple of days to research it. But by the time I have gone back to the trial, it says my version is too old and I cannot use it to test.

I am happy to buy MakeMKV IF it lets me watch these blu-rays on my mac. But with it expiring before I could figure it out, that is a LOT of money to spend if it's not going to let me watch these disks.

Can someone let me know, is there a way to contact MakeMKV and request a few more days with it to try to get these blu-rays to work? I just want to see if I can play or rip a single blu-ray disk-- if I can, I will happily purchase it.

I'm quite out of my depths here, I just upgraded from a 2011 macbook pro-- which still had the dvd player in it. A friend did some jiggery pokery and made it possible to watch dvds on it. But that computer is dead, and I don't know how to play my disks. I had NO idea it would be this hard to just watch an episode of The Twilight Zone!!

Any and all help would be welcome, I really am out of my depths here!!

Thanks for taking the time

[d00zah]

FAQ about BETA and PERMANENT keys.

[mazzo]

Hi,

Is there a way to get another key to try the blu-rays before purchase? If it works I'm more than happy to purchase the permanent key. But as it expired after only a few days, and I am certainly a novice in this area, I didn't have time to try it on what I needed.

How do I get another key for another trial? If it works I will purchase it immediately.

Thank you

[Woodstock]

That message in the link gives information on how to operate with existing beta keys, even when they expire.

[jimholcomb]

That message in the link gives information on how to operate with existing beta keys, even when they expire.

That works and I'd like to purchase the software (I'm pretty sure I did years ago but lost the key and email) but quite frankly I'm hesitant to do that since I've seen no response from the author regarding this issue since it came up last week. I'd like to know that this is still a supported product.

[dcoke22]

There were 3 software updates in 2023, 3 in 2024, and 1 so far in 2025. https://makemkv.com/download/

New keys for 4K UHDs continue to get generated.

There seems to be lots of evidence that MakeMKV is still a going concern. I've been a member on this forum for nearly 5 years and in that time I've only seen the author post on this site a handful of times.