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If that message was like this, that's a DVD, because BDs do not have VOBUs. Complex multiplex encountered - 1 cells and 1803 VOBUs have to be scanned. This may take some time, please be patient - it can't be avoided. A quote from an Amazon review: To be clear, this review is for the Lord of the Ring...

Many commercial BD sets come with DVD versions of the extras.

The main thing is that the BD isn't interlaced... Removing interlacing is something that works OK sometimes, other times, the video gets muddy. You also start with a better video transfer, so even if you shrink it down to "old TV size" (720x480) it looks smoother. BTW, I found Logan's Run with a BD ...

Logan's Run (the original movie) is long out of print, but the Star Trek movies often show up in the Walmart bargain bin on Bluray. I eventually upgraded all the movies to BD copies.

If you go shopping, just "remember where you parked."

Need more information.

First, are you trying to WRITE DVDs, or rip them?

Do you have debug logging turned on, and are any errors being reported? FAQ link in my signature explains debug logging and how to use it.

Have you read Changing names with Expert mode enabled yet?

A file has at least two names; the metadata name, and the file name. The default file name is derived from the name you enter, according to rules. You can change that to specify the EXACT file name you want.

DVD players expect MPEG2 video, and BD content is usually h264, although there are disks out there that use a variant of VC-1, and UHD content is almost always h265. VLC, Kodi, and more can play the unencrypted BD backup files. I haven't tried to do it with the Win10 movie player. The Win7 player co...

If you do not remove the encryption during the backup, whatever you use to play the video has to have the decryption key for the disk.

This is not a problem if your intention is to then use MakeMKV to create MKV files, but most playback programs will need to have the encryption removed first.

DVD or BD? If DVD, does the box say anything about "Closed Captions"?

Vidcoder is a "friendlier front end" to handbrake; if you're using that, you're using handbrake indirectly. So, have fun playing! It's like an adventure game. You have a goal (defeat the anti-quality demon lord) with powerful weapons you have never seen before, but you don't lose just because you di...

Not automatically. You can manually add it in Expert mode.

How far you can shrink things depends on what you're willing to sacrifice. For animated stuff, I see a 70-90% reduction in size at a quality I can tolerate. But, I'm not the sort to climb up close to the TV and look for errant pixels in the "black" areas of the screen. Action movies, 40-60% reductio...

The highest quality you are going to get from a DVD is the raw MKV file you get from MakeMKV. Any post-processing to make the file smaller is going to give up more "quality", although converting from MPEG2 compression to h.264 is a LOT more efficient. Handbrake with one of their "480p HQ" presets wi...

I did a quick scan of the executable, and there doesn't seem to be a command line switch to select which drive to associate an instance to.

Send C:\Users\ckapu/.MakeMKV/MKB20_v72_Star_Wars-_The_Rise_of_Skywalker_B042.tgz to SVQ@makemkv.com for analysis.