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The main feature is always 24p or 2400/1001p on Blu-ray. It's possible there are some where the main feature is 25 fps, but I've never encountered any. In most cases, even special features are "NTSC-compatible". That's not strictly true. The main feature is usually 24p, but it can be 50i ...

Material originally shot on video rather than film, so mostly for TV, will often be interlaced because it was intended to be broadcast, which would have required it to be interlaced at that point. DVDs have always been able to store interlaced or progressive content, so they put it on there as it was.

TrueHD is usually the one to cause problems on certain playback devices. DTS-HD MA has the advantage of the regular DTS core being embedded in the HD audio track so players without DTS-HD MA licenses and codecs can usually pull out the core DTS stream and use this, whereas TrueHD in an MKV container...

When you choose the FLAC profile and highlight that audio track, does MakeMKV suggest it will be converted to FLAC or left as-is in the bottom right panel? If it says it will leave it as-is then you might be able to forced it to FLAC by creating a custom profile that forces every single audio track ...

Try the following: cd e:\eac3to g: cd "\The Third Man" e:eac3to The_Third_Man_t00.mkv That should give you the track listing, and you're using the same version as I am, so it should work. I have seen a few MKV files that it hasn't been able to parse successfully, in which case I use mkvcle...

You can re-run the MKV back through MakeMKV and choose the FLAC profile. This will convert all audio tracks to FLAC. Otherwise, if you just want to convert a specific track you can use eac3to (free) to extract the particular track and convert to FLAC on-the-fly with a command something like: eac3to ...

No, FLAC is where you want to be. Completely lossless so the quality is identical to LPCM, plus it has the advantage that channel assignments are stored in the FLAC metadata which tells the player what the correct channel order is rather than having it assumed in LPCM. And you save a bit of disk spa...

In the MakeMKV program folder create a new file named something like hddvdflac.mmcp.xml, containing the following: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <profile> <!-- profile name - Default --> <name lang="eng">HDDVD->FLAC</name> <!-- Common MKV flags --> <mkvSettings...

See the news and announcements sub-forum for the beta key.

I've already raised this with Mike and sent him some test files so he can fix it. Meantime, if you look in the MakeMKV directory and find the profile files, you can create a custom one as a workaround which forces everything to FLAC and select that particular profile for HD-DVDs, then it'll work. Cu...

Because MakeMKV can do full disc backups of Blurays, but not DVDs. Yeah, that's a given, but the question is 'why' MakeMKV is coded to only do full disc backups of Blu-rays. I use another product to back up my DVDs, HD-DVDs and Blu-rays so I don't have to go into storage to retrieve the physical di...

This is a good question. I'm sure a number of people would want to have a full backup on disc that could be gone back to for extra features, etc. without having to pull out the original disc, whatever format it began its life on. I know I do since all my physical discs end up in storage.

MakeMKV is for ripping DVDs and Blu-rays that you own, not have ripped off from somebody else. So, since most NASes don't have optical drives, you pretty much have to use a PC or Mac in order to get your legitimate content onto the NAs in the first place. So that's why MakeMKV runs there.

Thanks for saving me the bother of typing the same, obvious question!

It's been a couple of years since I ripped Avatar so I can't remember for certain but the forced subtitles might be in a separate stream which isn't flagged as forced. Play the movie in a regular Blu-ray player and then use the equivalent of the Display button to see if a set of subtitles has been t...