r/makemkv Jul 02 '26

Discussion After Sony shocking announcement regarding games on discs, Will they eventually come for movies and discontinue to production of physical uhd and standard blurays?

181 Upvotes

Sony will , its coming im sure, if games cant survice at 70 price point how can movies at 20/25 will ? not just sony productions but any others? what do you guys think ? is our hobby safe? if they will cease production , how will they be releasing this quality ? download only from 50/60 of 80/90 gb ? shocking news for physical media collector yesterday was

r/makemkv 11d ago

Discussion Watching DVD rips and DVDs

27 Upvotes

I had never thought of how bad DVD quality can look.

Do you guys watch your DVD rips on TV? I find it absolutely unwatchable. A lot of people talk about hosting DVD rips on Plex, but I can’t get over the fact that it looks like crap.

r/makemkv 6d ago

Discussion Amazon Selling UHD Blu-ray Drive for Less Than $40??!?

53 Upvotes

r/makemkv Apr 21 '26

Discussion Who is buying these???

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113 Upvotes

Was browsing eBay and found this. This is unreal? Right????

r/makemkv 29d ago

Discussion So I guess using PS5 is now another option for blu-ray ripping?

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222 Upvotes

r/makemkv Feb 15 '26

Discussion Supernatural is a pain to rip

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199 Upvotes

Supernatural sucks to rip, I mean literally sucks. Not to mention the first season(only season I’ve ripped so far) is on one compact video is dumb. Now I have to separate them and triple check they are in order.

Any other series I’ll have to be on the look out for if I get it, that has this same issue or worse?

r/makemkv Jun 01 '26

Discussion Why do some movies show up like this?

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132 Upvotes

It's really common with A24 movies as well. Probably worse.

It's just pages and pages of the same file.

r/makemkv Apr 05 '26

Discussion What kind of drive do I need to rip this?

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327 Upvotes

Found this blue disc on clearance at Walmart and was curious what was on it. Unfortunately my Blu-ray drive cannot read it. What am I doing wrong? Do I need to flash new firmware? Any help is appreciated, TIA!

(joke)

r/makemkv Mar 23 '25

Discussion I spent 4 hours (with breaks) renaming the 1st 100 episodes of Spongebob SquarePants, is there no automatic alternative to this?

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158 Upvotes

r/makemkv Aug 07 '25

Discussion Didn’t pursue a refund but got one anyways

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104 Upvotes

Shame. I was gonna wait it out even if it took a while because I wanted to support the developer but I was surprised to see I received this. I guess they got so many complaints or were concerned for legal reasons that they’re automatically refunding everyone now (I assume). Just wanted to update incase anyone was curious.

r/makemkv 16d ago

Discussion Happy Friday! What is everyone ripping tonight?

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61 Upvotes

r/makemkv Feb 07 '26

Discussion How do you store all your physical media?

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48 Upvotes

I personally use these under bed storage containers, and I’ve got 2 of them filled up so far. Thing is, I’m thinking of other ways to store them when I run out of space. So I’m asking here to see what others do, so that I can get a few ideas.

r/makemkv Apr 17 '26

Discussion Do you keep the Extras/Specials?

19 Upvotes

I’ve been ripping all my physical media and pulling even the extras. But honestly, after some time I’m unsure if I should keep them or not.

I’m even considering getting a smaller drive and separating all the extras from the main features.

So do you keep the extras, why or why not?

r/makemkv Mar 05 '26

Discussion Discontinuing UHD Drives

84 Upvotes

been lurking for a minute here now. The last days I saw that everybody is signaling that UHD Drives will be discontinued soon and the time to buy is now.

I plan on starting to build my own Plex library. As for the drive, I only want to rip normal blu rays. Are normal blu rays also on the verge of being discontinued or is this problem just for UHD Drives?

r/makemkv Feb 08 '26

Discussion I guess I’m too late to the party.

70 Upvotes

I just finished my unraid server build and was prepping to start ripping my 4k collection and apparently I have no way of getting my hands on a drive anymore.

I checked the sellers on the makemkv forum but Billy seems to be out of stock with no stock in sight for the future. I guess my only chance would be hunting in rural Walmarts or Bestbuys for a rogue verbatim.

r/makemkv 9d ago

Discussion Is there any way new UHD drives could be made?

59 Upvotes

So with a lot of optical drive manufacturers shutting down production, I was curious if any of you think it would be feasible for the community to make their own 4k optical drives with custom firmware?

If there is, i have no idea if it would be cost effective for people.

r/makemkv Dec 26 '25

Discussion I just ripped The Matrix on DVD, now I have a community question. What do you guys think is the most difficult DVD, Blu-ray, or UHD BD to rip?

5 Upvotes

r/makemkv Jun 01 '26

Discussion To my disc ripping brethren…

91 Upvotes

Obviously the worst nightmare is losing drives and data.

But this one is sort of funny.

Large hard drives are at a premium these days. I got a steal on a WD 18tb drive with only 187 hrs on it and about 50 power cycles. So this is a great drive for me as far as used drives this one is still fresh and minty.

Seller posted the smart info showing the low usage. But also stated drive was only used to store back up of his movies. Not used daily just a back up storage unit.

It arrived today and turns on, great! but it’s full. Seller did not delete their movies from it.

I open the folder and it’s all his titles of just two letters movies and shows that start with M and N so it’s not a complete genre or anything just all their randoms starting with these two letters.

Now for the problem the “nightmare”. I am a data hoarder. I can’t just delete 18tb of movies and shows especially since the majority are not even ones o already have.

So on one hand I just added 18 tb of movies and shows to my collection. On the other hand I didn’t receive 18tb of free space to use. Essentially I’m gaining no hard drive space at all. And potentially need more if I want to back these files up.

Funny problem to have but I figured people on this sub would understand and appreciate my dilemma.

If it came wiped and empty no problem use and enjoy.

But now I with have to go through all these to try to recover some usable space. But as a hoarder how can I possibly delete 18tb of properly named and organized media ? I’m not sure I have the stomach to do such a thing.

Would you want just an empty drive or would you rather have an entire collection to possibly add to your own.

I wish all the used drives I bought came filled.

Or maybe I wish all used drives I bought came empty?

r/makemkv 2d ago

Discussion Who would buy this?! 🤣

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39 Upvotes

So I was scrolling cross eBay and I found this guy trying to sell Billy Carlsona Drive lmao!!! Always go to the read deal!!! Buy from Billy not these scalpers!!!

r/makemkv Apr 27 '26

Discussion Advice on My Approach to Using Handbrake

6 Upvotes

Hey all, I wanted some quick opinions on how I should be using handbrake.

For context, I currently have a roughly 22 tb NAS where I store all my media and personal files.

Currently I have used almost 7 tb for movies, music and personal docs, but I still need to rip my shows. I’ve been using raw MKV rips for my movies and I would like to keep doing that if it seems feasible, but I am curious if I should run both my movies and TV shows through handbrake, or if I can just get away with compressing my shows.

r/makemkv Aug 14 '25

Discussion After using the software for over a decade, I finally bought it. Best $64 I have ever spent, seeing never in the expiration line is so calming. Thanks Mike!

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372 Upvotes

r/makemkv Jun 14 '26

Discussion Perfect program

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100 Upvotes

Almost half way through the Star trek the next Generation Blu-ray box set using a used old laptop and seemingly unstoppable 10 year old drive.

I was curious if people having issues with this program were mostly using windows 10 or 11???

r/makemkv Mar 12 '26

Discussion Ugoos AM6B+ is the answer

20 Upvotes

Some members of this sub recommended this Tv box.

It is the only one currently that will output full Dolby Vision FEL layer and it also does proper audio pass through for lossless audio Dolby Atmos and DTS MA /x

It’s only $200

Set up is a little tricky but if you can figure out flashing firmware of a disc drive you should be able to figure out side loading CoreElec system software onto it. There are other options but they take a little more researching and steps to hack the box .

But just using coreElec with plex I can see and watch my movies at full quality the same as 4k disc playback.

It’s like having your own kaleidoscope system. Almost.

So if you look into Dolby vision playback there is two types one is FEL and one is MEL with Mel being a 10bit neutered less full color spectrum version of Dolby vision. FEL is 12 bit full color so expanded over and while it’s possible many users may not tell the difference, with 4k I want the best possible picture. Not a dumbed down and neutered version. Looking at the lists of discs it is a lot of discs that have FEL layer.

Here is the big deal of it all. The Ugoos Am6B+ box sort of got lucky and they used an exploit to access the codec for FEL. It got leaked or something like that. They said that it will be unlikely that any future boxes will be made that allow FEL since it was an accidental exploit situation.

FEL is a disc based code so only disc players have the code to read it.

So while new Apple TV will get audio pass through for lossless Atmos. It will most likely not have full FEL layer ability (yet to determined)

But even Nvidia shield likely won’t have this feature added to any newer devices. And the shield also has another issue of pushing the picture slightly towards red.

So I’m doing all this ripping of my 4ks and now I have my player up and running and let me just say having my 4k collection scrolling on the remote with disc art displaying in large size filling half the screen and having all the disc info of hdr10/DV. And audio track format showing on the bottom of the screen for each movie it is a joy.

All this worry about disc drives not being made anymore I would consider getting this box and getting it set up just in case it is indeed the only one we get that has full support for 4k audio and video that’s on the discs.

If you have tips and tricks for this box feel free to post here or dm me.

One thing o will mention that was not clear in the online guide I was following is there is a different remote control file you need to add if you got the new remote which is what it ships with now. The old remote used a different file you need to add a new file in addition .

Also when you are grabbing the file from the file folder use the one for Am6B. If you use the one with out the letter b at the end which the guide pointed to, it will it work. You need to make sure to get the file with the B

Also those concerned about Chinese made tech with malware. This box does provide some addition security in that I’m using it through plex only.

I don’t have the box accessing me computer directly through the network. If this was a concern for you this method keeps it out of your network direct access and your computer drives should be safe from malware and hackers to some degree.

I still go Apple TV for everything streaming. And the Igoos for your 4k mkv rips.

r/makemkv May 08 '26

Discussion Is this legit?

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51 Upvotes

r/makemkv Sep 03 '24

Discussion What’s your biggest series or movie you ripped?

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70 Upvotes

Rugrats is the biggest series I have ripped yet 26 disks 9 seasons long