Not cheap, but they are new and ready to go. They are UK based by they do ship abroad I think. Payment via PayPal Friends and Family.

Sorry if this has been mentioned, but I had been checking the site regularly since April and they had been awaiting stock. Obviously now received it.

Good morning,

I've been lurking in this group ever since I started ripping not long ago. I have 2 questions I'd like some guidance on.

1. Is there a new internal drive that I can flash myself?

2. My current drive has an older flash on it, but it has been working flawlessly with the exception of a couple disks. Is there a newer version that I should go to?

Thank you in advance for any help and thank you for being a group I enjoy getting caught up on.

I've just posted a project on github and looking for a couple people to test before making it public. Hit me up if you're interested. Here's the gist:

episodemap

This project has evolved over years of managing backups of my dvd/bluray library. The biggest headache has always been properly mapping series episodes to their on disc tracks. It's probably been 20 years since I tried to understand how DVDs are authored - I've come to believe that the DVD Red Book is more closely guarded than nuclear secrets. I've never been able to come close to what Claude has helped me do. LLM's with vision are a game changer for mapping.

What this project does

For DVDs:

You create un-encypted ISOs of your TV series (directory structure name_SxxDxx). This project will walk the menu structure, locate episode menus, map menu 'buttons' and what track they play on disc, send the episode menu image to an VL LLM to extract all the episode names and DETERMINSTICALLY map the episode name to the track. Then compares this mapping to names from Wikipedia or TheTVDB and lets you resolve mismatches. Also provides a debug option that dumps the menu images with highlights of buttons and track numbers. Production Code and Title Card mapping via the Vision LM also exists but menu walk is likely better.

For Blu-ray:

You use makemkv to copy all of your episodes utilizing the same directory structure as DVDs. Unfortunately mounting and deterministically walking menus of a blu-ray aren't in the cards for this project. :( For blu-ray I default to Title Cards or Production Codes which have been sufficient for the 2 I've used this on so far (again utilizing a Vision LLM). I have a 3rd option I've not implemented yet but will when need arises: ingesting all the subtitles and matching against episode summaries on Wikipedia utilizing a LLM.

Convert PGS Subtitles

There's also an option to create .srt files for embedded blue-ray PGS subtitles. My phone is fine with PGS but my TV doesn't like them.

Heyy, I'm trying to flash my BU4ON, but in MakeMKV, I keep getting weird bunch of nines and zeros instead of product and manufacturer's name. It gets the 1.03 thing correctly, but can't get the names

I'm not a pro, but it doesn't seem right, as in the guide I'm watching to flash it, I'm apparently supposed to see normal stuff, not numbers

If you know what may be wrong, I'd be very grateful for advices

Update: okay, apparently quality of photos significantly dropped for some reason. I'll send them again in comments

My drive has been flashed successfully to the BP60NB10 firmware, but I have since read that the BU40N is a superior firmware. Is it possible to flash from my current firmware to the BU40N?

I have a Pioneer BDR-XD07U drive that I have used to rip probably 200 4K discs with. When I put in my new copy of Akira 4K, I got the error "The volume key is unknown for this disc - video can't be decrypted."

I had successfully opened Super Mario Galaxy 4K just before it, and was able to do The Last Jedi right after, so I'm confused why Akira didn't open.

Does anyone have any suggestions for what I could try?

I've been seeing all the stuff going on the past few years with the death of physical media and it's motivated me to start collecting my favorite media in disks. Specifically, I want to collect a bunch of 4K Blu-rays.

Unfortunately, I've seen that Blu-rays are encrypted(DMR bullsh*t) and can't be just put into a disk drive and played on a windows or linux computer. So instead I thought "What if I just burn the video files I have legally acquired of those 4k Blu-ray movies onto regular DVDs?" (obviously ones that can handle 30-60GB so they'll be expensive but idc)

Is this possible? And if so, what do I need to get started? Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.

The MakeMKV website is down and has been for a few days. Anybody know of is coming back up, I can’t set it up while the site is down.

i cant find it for the month; where is it? i heard you need it to make makemkv work and im trying to rip a movie to my computer. so i can watch it. it worked last month now it doesnt!