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A DTS HD MA track contains the lossy DTS data, plus the data necessary to replace what was lost in the compression. You are never really "throwing away" the lossy part of the track - it's a necessary part of the lossless playback. The reason that MakeMKV writes a separate DTS track is that some play...

If there is no LibreDrive information, your drive isn't on the list. Look at the firmware date shown in the information window; if the date is prior to 2015, the drive is too old. And even drives made in 2015 may be too old.

You won't find your drive on the LibreDrive list... It's too old. Only a few drives manufactured prior to 2015 are capable of having their firmware limits modified "on the fly". The oldest one I've owned that was recognized at all was a 2015 LG drive, and it didn't get any extra capabilities. Yours ...

VC-1 is a rather common codec, but there is a variant of it, VC-1 Interlaced, that a number of players do not like.

I've always used handbrake to re-encode video to h264, which fixes a myriad of compatibility issues.

Nit pick on part of your question, DTS HD MA is not "full uncompressed audio". If you have the codec playback support, it's lossless, but it isn't uncompressed. But that's only if the player supports it. Most simply play the lossy DTS portion of the track.

What does MakeMKV say about the drive?

It isn't arbitrary or random. "Backup" is "make a copy of the disk structure, with all files", while "Open the disk and Save selected titles" involves reading the disk structure, and ONLY collecting the parts necessary to create MKV files for selected titles. If you have a BD, the backup option is o...

The reason cross-flashing works at all is because the controller hardware inside the drive is the same for both manufacturers. The Asus BW-16D1HT is one of THE most mentioned drives in the firmware topics, along with the firmware people have used for it. Someone even posted a speed comparison recent...

For what you describe, you are locked in to the requirements specified on the Cyberdrive box, including processor, video, and drive specs.

Permissions. Microsoft has decided to lock down low-level access to optical disks by default. You can have a working system, do a Windows update, and have a non-working system.

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Is your receiver being fed by the TV, by chance? On my TV, it spits out 2-channel PCM back to the theater amplifier, because PCM is the only thing the optical link allows. I have to have the amp intercept other audio codecs on their way to the TV by feeding the HDMI through the amp.

Very strange, because the only options MakeMKV has for PCM is whether a (L)PCM source track is copied as "raw LPCM", or "LPCM in a WAVEX container". Using the FLAC profile adds "save LPCM as FLAC", and the ability to convert TrueHD and DTS HD MA as FLAC. There is no option to convert DTS to LPCM. No...

MakeMKV won't do any conversions on video, and audio conversions are limited. The audio conversions are NOT done unless you chose either the FLAC or AAC-stereo profile, under the Advanced options (Expert mode needs to be enabled to see it). When you're playing back the MKV files, are you doing it fr...

Set your minimum title length in preferences to a lower number. MakeMKV will ignore anything shorter than that.

The Plex profile for your ATV needs to be updated to show that it can do 1080p. Plex sends what it thinks the client can handle.

You can get information on that over on the Plex support forum.