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by mattyj2001
Sun Nov 13, 2022 7:12 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Advice on Converting Rips to Playback ATMOS on AppleTV (Infuse)
Replies: 4
Views: 2350

Re: Advice on Converting Rips to Playback ATMOS on AppleTV (Infuse)

Kodi. It's a little bloaty but seems pretty reliable. I routinely stream 4k uncompressed rips through it from a NAS and it rarely flails. I'm going through a Samsung soundbar and it recognizes Atmos in a THD wrapper, no problem.
by mattyj2001
Fri Nov 11, 2022 10:10 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Advice on Converting Rips to Playback ATMOS on AppleTV (Infuse)
Replies: 4
Views: 2350

Re: Advice on Converting Rips to Playback ATMOS on AppleTV (Infuse)

I got annoyed enough with Apple's lack of TrueHD + Atmos that I bought an Nvidia Shield. Slap Kodi on that bad boy and you got yourself some Atmos playback from all your Blu-ray/UHD rips. I check back in once in a while in case Apple has started supporting other flavors of Atmos, I'd very much like ...
by mattyj2001
Thu Sep 16, 2021 8:29 am
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: Recommendation for best playback device for TV / Full UHD/MKV rips?
Replies: 1
Views: 3575

Re: Recommendation for best playback device for TV / Full UHD/MKV rips?

I just ditched my Apple TV 4K, which was pretty good but will likely never support Atmos passthrough on local media, for an Nvidia Shield Pro and I have to say I'm impressed. Despite my animosity toward Android, it's a solid little piece of hardware. I have all my rips on a NAS and Plex is able to p...
by mattyj2001
Sun May 24, 2020 4:29 am
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: 4K UHD - MKV - AppleTV 4K - Infuse 6 pro = my results
Replies: 4
Views: 12093

Re: 4K UHD - MKV - AppleTV 4K - Infuse 6 pro = my results

Very useful! I've been useing NFS and had an even slower connection, around 200 Mbps. That was fine for regular playback, even with 4k streams over a wired LAN, but any seeking never worked properly. I'm a professional IT guy but sometimes you don't see the forest for the trees and I never thought t...
by mattyj2001
Fri May 01, 2020 7:18 pm
Forum: UHD discs
Topic: Play UHD+Atmos on ATV 4K?
Replies: 5
Views: 10385

Re: Play UHD+Atmos on ATV 4K?

That's what I thought. The previous message implies that Atmos 'works fine'. It does 'work fine' if we mean 'sound comes out of the sound bar', but it ain't gonna be Atmos.
by mattyj2001
Wed Apr 29, 2020 12:06 am
Forum: UHD discs
Topic: Play UHD+Atmos on ATV 4K?
Replies: 5
Views: 10385

Re: Play UHD+Atmos on ATV 4K?

I use Infuse to plat rips with Atmos and it works perfect. (Plex works, too, but for some reason Plex buffers for me a lot from my NAS where Infuse just plays perfectly.) How? Do you happen to have discs with Atmos in an E-AC3 track? The ones I have (so far that I've seen) are in TrueHD and don't t...
by mattyj2001
Mon Sep 23, 2019 7:46 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Mac OS X
Topic: Forced subtitles
Replies: 13
Views: 25302

Re: Forced subtitles

A little late to the thread, but here's what I do. Only pick the 'Forced' subtitle of the language you want to read 'foreign' subtitles in. There may be multiples. After the MakeMKV rip, play the video in VLC and check the subtitle(s). If it only has one, you're golden. If it has multiple you need t...
by mattyj2001
Sun May 26, 2019 5:43 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Mac OS X
Topic: Subtitle process (MakeMKV and Handbrake for Blu-ray)
Replies: 14
Views: 38610

Re: Subtitle process (MakeMKV and Handbrake for Blu-ray)

Would be interesting to know which BDs you had success with so people can verify. Maybe discs for different regions are in fact authored differently. The Bourne Ultimatum (UK release, but not Bourne Identity. It had the subs burned into the video directly.) The rest are US releases. Looper Ronin Sp...
by mattyj2001
Fri May 17, 2019 8:00 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Mac OS X
Topic: Subtitle process (MakeMKV and Handbrake for Blu-ray)
Replies: 14
Views: 38610

Re: Subtitle process (MakeMKV and Handbrake for Blu-ray)

I've also found that MakeMKV is good at picking out the needed subtitles when people speak a different language. Which is the opposite of pretty much everyone else's experience here. Since almost none of the subs are actually flagged as forced, MakeMKV can not recognize them automatically (unless M...
by mattyj2001
Wed May 08, 2019 6:39 am
Forum: MakeMKV for Mac OS X
Topic: Subtitle process (MakeMKV and Handbrake for Blu-ray)
Replies: 14
Views: 38610

Re: Subtitle process (MakeMKV and Handbrake for Blu-ray)

I've also found that Handbrake's auto/scan feature is quite reliable. You'll want to start by including all subtitle tracks in the language you speak, then in the GUI set the first/only track to Foreign Audio Search or whatever it is. I don't actually use Handbrake anymore since I'm anti-compression...
by mattyj2001
Thu Jan 31, 2019 7:42 am
Forum: UHD drives
Topic: Heads up - Support for LG UHD drives
Replies: 245
Views: 342348

Re: Heads up - Support for LG UHD drives

"Optical drive "BD-RE HL-DT-ST BD-RE BU40N 1.01d" opened in OS access mode." Firmware 1.01d? Whatever that is Not sure if it's possible/practical to downgrade/sidegrade the firmware. you need to downgrade to bu40n 1.00 i have it if you need it and follow teddy's guide: https://w...
by mattyj2001
Thu Jan 31, 2019 5:29 am
Forum: UHD drives
Topic: Heads up - Support for LG UHD drives
Replies: 245
Views: 342348

Re: Heads up - Support for LG UHD drives

I have a BU40N that is _not_ working with firmware 1.01, but it seems to be some other weird kind of firmware, maybe? The Drive Information box in MakeMKV reports this (on a Mac): Drive Information OS device name: /dev/rdisk2 Current profile: BD-ROM Manufacturer: HL-DT-ST Product: BD-RE BU40N Revis...
by mattyj2001
Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:13 am
Forum: UHD drives
Topic: Heads up - Support for LG UHD drives
Replies: 245
Views: 342348

Re: Heads up - Support for LG UHD drives

What OS are you on? For me, on Linux, this is what MakeMKV looked like after ripping a disc on my laptop: https://owncloud.now.ai/index.php/s/UPb1hifvpgog22d The "DEBUG: Code 03DF/..." line is what you should see if it's successfully able to rip from your drive. My BU40N worked fine with ...
by mattyj2001
Tue Jan 29, 2019 9:29 pm
Forum: UHD drives
Topic: Heads up - Support for LG UHD drives
Replies: 245
Views: 342348

Re: Heads up - Support for LG UHD drives

Today the support for "official UHD" drives was finally enabled (not as smooth as it was hoped). As of today most "official" drives are supported, EXCEPT ones with latest firmware. If you have an "UHD official" drive, you should get one of two messages: Code 03DF - you...
by mattyj2001
Mon Dec 31, 2018 7:08 am
Forum: MKV file processing and playback
Topic: forced subtitles
Replies: 21
Views: 48111

Re: forced subtitles

Additionally, if you are _not_ wanting to do additional processing, there are tools out there to extract the subtitle tracks (MKVtools), view them on their own (BDSup2Sub) then remux with the bum tracks taken out (MKVToolNix). I'm a bit, mmm, maybe 'pedantic' isn't quite the right word, but somethin...