I recently bought a collector edition boxed set of a 1970s martial arts series I love. I can’t even play it in VLC, makemkv beta code situation is borked, and handbrake scans all the titles, then says there are none.
I have a local Plex server I wanted to use, no other devices that can play Blu-ray other than an external USB drive I just bought.
Any advice? The Linux box is on 22.04.
I gave in and bought makemkv yesterday. It just works.
Normally I wouldn’t be opposed to paying for something like this, but it’s a corner case for me. The license costs more than the physical media.
I’ve been using mkv beta for years, you don’t have to pay for it (yet). Works perfectly fine, extracting subtitles is a pain in the ass so far though.
Also I use mkv to rip the bluray and then handbrake so my smart tv can play it, file size is smaller and all that.
are you using subtitle edit to generate the subtitle (srt) files? that’s what i use, it’s not horrible… but work.
Ah so after buying hundreds of dollars in blurays, I have to spend more money in getting software to download what I bought and paid for.
Yes.
Regards,
The Movie Industry
You bought and paid for the physical copy. I thought that was the point.
But given time, all physical media deteriorates. If you buy physical media, you should have the means to back it up.
I bought a lifetime license for makemkv like 15 years ago. It was the single best software purchase I’ve ever made. It just works on all platforms and for all disks. The hardest I’ve ever had to work at it is to “manually” open all the tracks and play a little guessing game for what track is the real one - but it’s ripped every CD and blu ray I’ve ever thrown at it.
My latest config is fedora workstation 42 with a portable blue ray burner drive. Works like a champ.
Not asked for but honorable mention goes to EAC for ripping CDs. I run that in bottles just fine.
I just went back to EAC this week (actually forgot about it after using it forever).
Nothing works as simply/easily. It “just works”.
you’ll also want mkvnix tool as well to edit the mkvs. you are going down the hole.
Been using MKV for a while, running it in a VM so I can adjust the system date so it’ll work until the next update.
Will be buying it after the 1st of the month.
So… the fact that the beta literally just never finishes scanning my disk is because I need to purchase it? o.O
That sounds more like your drive not being supported by LibreDrive. OP talked about expired beta keys, which is a current problem with makemkv.