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You can backup the BR to a BDMV folder structure. Then make an .iso from that with standard utilities.

On Linux I use mkisofs; I'm not sure about Mac.

Have you tried the different DVD opening modes as detailed here? viewtopic.php?f=7&t=28541

Or, you might note the title numbers when playing with vlc and use manual opening mode in makemkv.

That is how the disk was authored. There is something in the menu's code that picks out the correct chapter range when selecting an episode in the DVD player. Why it is done that way sometimes and others not: I don't know. Something in the work flow or choices the operator made. Handbrake will pick ...

I use -q 18 on DVDs and -q 20 on Blu-rays. DVDs compress by a factor of 2-3x, but Blu-rays have a much wider range, from "just about nothing" to 10x and more. I have not found a Blu-ray that doesn't compress at 3:1 or better. Which titles are you seeing that do that? Very grainy sources. ...

I use -q 18 on DVDs and -q 20 on Blu-rays. DVDs compress by a factor of 2-3x, but Blu-rays have a much wider range, from "just about nothing" to 10x and more. Grainy sources are hard to compress, but modern films with lots of CGI and grainless digital cameras compress like a dream. You sho...

Using Arch Linux here. I'm sure it is the same. You can do this in two ways: (1) Preferences -> Video. Select "Custom". There is a little browser icon to the right of the directory box; click on that and a standard finder dialog displays. (2) When you have actually opened a disk and are se...

Does MPC show the title number being played? (VLC does). If so, you can try Manual Mode and specify that title.

You might also experiment with Preferences -> Protection -> DVD structure protection removal method. Some new options were added recently.

You want all the chapters for each of the 4 titles? Then just listing the title numbers will do it:

1 2 3 4

You might also experiment with Preferences -> Protection -> DVD structure protection removal method. Some new options were added recently.

Failing how? What exactly are you doing and what is happening?

The two types of subtitle were made by different people at different times. If the graphical subtitles are available then they are generally sufficient and you don't need the CC tracks. However, CC tracks do have one advantage: they are text-based and the player or display program has more flexibili...

I believe this is an error on my end. I found ccextractor was not working and when trying to rebuild it encountered the ffmpeg version problem described here: https://github.com/CCExtractor/ccextractor/issues/1418 I have a work-around as described above until this is fixed by ccextractor, just wante...

Not necessarily; those errors come up for unknown reasons.

Are those DVD-R disks? I have sometimes wondered if the lack of copy protection on manufactured-on-demand disks can cause spurious messages.

Yes, I can extract them with other means (vobcopy then Handbrake). Probably not related, but since I posted that I've had a case of MakeMKV detecting and extracting CC from Blu-ray. This is rare but it does happen. The video was mpeg2 and I think that may have always been the case when I've seen thi...

This stopped working at some point; I am not sure at what version. The program detects and displays the presence of CC subtitles but at the end of the rip has: "AV sync issue in stream 2 at 0:00:00 : Track #2 turned out to be empty and was removed from output file". The track is not empty....