Isolate the segment lists from /tmp/xx.txt. Makemkvcon - r info dev : / dev / sr0 > / tmp / xx. Use MakeMKVcon to dump info to a text file

Recently I came across a way to use MakeMKV to do the full process, again thanks to a MakeMKV forum post. I struck out here as I didn’t have a Windows machine with the right software combination, and it seems I wasn’t able to get Ubuntu to natively play back a bluray either. The MakeMKV forum has a post about using PowerDVD and Process monitor to figure this out. It’s much better to figure it out for the disk you have. It turns out that there are multiple versions of the movie: rental, US release, Canadian release, etc. If you got digging around, you can find advice on which of the many to pick from the list. Initially I naively picked the 1st and used that one, but upon watching the movie it was obvious there was 1 scene out of place, and thus two weird jump cuts to the flow of the movie. It seems that all but one of these titles has things shuffled in the wrong order. Starting with Catching Fire the bluray shows you 100’s of feature length titles – all the same duration, but with different segment maps. When I got to the Hunger Games series, things got a bit more interesting. With MakeMKV that selection is more manual, but picking 1 title from a list of 10 isn’t all that hard. Handbrake will automatically select the longest video, and that’s almost always the actual movie itself.

MakeMKV is how I rip bluray disks, then feed the resulting rip into Handbrake to compress it down. Handbrake is great for dealing with DVDs. This gives me a Netflix like viewing experience, but for my own personal movie collection. I still have a large collection, but have been slowly converting it to be hosted on my Plex server. Before streaming was the primary way to get new content, I collected a lot of movies on DVD / bluray.

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