Hello, thanks for the Video. I purchased the Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD from your link, and in makemkv I'm getting Status: Possible, not yet enabled. Have you come across this?
Thanks for watching! This is really odd. In our experience LibreDrive was already enabled out of the box. Is the firmware version of your drive different from ours? We might suggest making a help thread on the MakeMKV forum as well since they are pros with drive firmware and LibreDrive support. Hope this helps.
@@TwoGuyzTech I did, and turns out that Amazon sent me a Feb 2023 drive with 1.03 Firmware already on it. So I returned it and am getting one from one of the guys on the forum.
@@WilPagan All good, thank you for letting us know, that sucks they came out with a new firmware. I will pin your comment so hopefully other people can be aware that some of these drives are getting updated from the factory. Hopefully you can get setup with a drive that works out better!
@@TwoGuyzTech sounds like the recommended drive is already junk like you mention at the beginning of the video, its too hard to find matching software and hardware. I don't understand why this is still an ongoing problem the 4K format is over 6 years old now.
Mark my words, when we lose the option to own physical media, like anything else, it will be a loss that we will of wished we didn't let happen. Cancel your streaming services and insist on physical media. So you OWN IT. I built my home theater, home media server (NAS) and got BW-16D1HT drives years back because I saw this trend trying to move everything to subscription/renting. I buy every physical copy I can find, be that DVD, BD or 4K. Even digitized VHS's that were never released on disc. Good video, more need to do this!
Unfortunately a lot of different industries are moving to the same path (like video games) and it's scary not feeling like you own the content you want to watch. I absolutely agree with your comment and I hope plenty of other people see the value in physical media as time goes on. Thanks for watching!
Technically even with a disc you only own a license to watch it, in some places like the UK it's legal to create a back up for personal use however it's barely legally challenged elsewhere anyway. I don't like subscription based services as much as the next guy, but do we really expect everyone to be ripping all these discs and setting up a home theatre?
I've recently started buying (mostly) 4k blu-rays. Didn't buy or even watch movies for years. If you have one or two subsription services where you can get all you need at the quality you want that is fine and convenient, but that's hardly ever the case. The potential to be convenient if what you want is where you want when you want it is streaming's only really positive side IME, but it has tons of negatives compared to 4k blu-rays. I don't mind not owning TV series, which I mostly don't have time to watch multiple times anyway, but owning movies seems to be vastly superior to streaming for a number of reasons.
I'm rebuying all my childhood favourites on physical media because if I want to stream them they're usually behind a pay wall twice the price of a blu ray or DVD. We've sold our soul man
I bought an Asus BW-16D1X-U external USB blu-ray drive last week for ripping 4K blu-rays and it's been fantastic. It rips 4K discs in about 30 minutes. Standard blu-rays in about 20m. I bought it used for $60 (free shipping) and flashed the firmware, then opened it up and moved the drive from its USB enclosure over to my desktop tower. It was a really cheap and easy way to get into blu-ray ripping. The speeds are great too.
@@markvandenberg4606 hey I actually ended up doing it and I’m on Mac. The forum post on MakeMKV’s website is mostly all that you need, but as much as the authors and other users claim it is, I found the instructions somewhat cryptic. For the LG model I bought I had to flash at least 3 different firmwares before actually getting the drive to rip 4K discs. Not to mention, the actual final firmware needed to make it work I had to dig a bit to find it.
I’ll also add I’ve been using the same Pioneer BD drive for over 3 years now, and it’s been amazing. Any problems I’ve had with it stem from software and not hardware. The fact that it doesn’t use a tray was my main reason for buying it.
@@StingerFromAbove yes, but I believe you’re going to have to pay for an app that can do it. I’m not sure of any that are free. That’s why I don’t use it to watch 4K BR Discs. I have however used MakeMKV to rip 4K discs. I have a 2017 27” iMac and a 2019 16” MacBook Pro that I use it with.
It is a small thing and not a major question, but this video was not only helpful, it was well done. It was clear, easy to follow, and not only answered my question. I learned a few things as well. Well well done!
starting my 1st 4k rip right now. finally got everything setup: NAS with lots of space, bluray drive, etc. will see how this turns out. oddly enough, this makes me want to purchase physical movies again, which i havent done in years.
@@deansmits006 got all my 4k blurays that i own ripped, slowly buying more as i catch them on sale at amazon. i got 3x 8tbs in my NAS, so 16tb usable space. down to 6tbs free, was looking at another 8tb on amazon this morning to fill the last bay of my NAS. although, i had to reinstall windows on my PC, so i gotta reinstall makemkv and get the beta code again, but wont have to do that until i get my next 4k bluray
I've been using MakeMKV for a long time and I must say this is a great intro video! You can also stream line the track selection by selection the preferred language (i assume English for most watching this video) under the preferences menu then the language tab. Happy ripping everyone!!!!
You really need to update this video and its description to let people know that the Pioneer BDR-XS07 doesn't work anymore due to 1.03 being what they ship out now. That drive currently can't even be flashed to work properly at all, so it's literally one of the main drives to avoid. You've got the Amazon link right at the top of the description without any warning that it should not be used. If you're not going to change the video itself, at least update the description with a clear warning. The fact you make commission off of that is even worse.
@@a_a1796 Yeah no problem. I unfortunately purchased one for Christmas, only to find it’s now useless for this purpose. I’m disappointed they haven’t updated the description on this video.
I have been using it for years,full videos.Maybe they changed it but I am using version 1.5.1 on Mac and I know it is in repositories on linux for free.@@azurekite3870
"You need physical blu rays to rip". Very informative. 😄 love the video! Thanks for the tips! I've had issues with mkv even on my dvds. Sometimes I get good rips, and sometimes I get ones that just skip.
Who wants to watch 4K movies on a laptop, or a cellphone? 4K UHD movies (movies in general) are supposed to be viewed on a big screen TV or a projection screen.
@@slimdude2011 I know right? That’d be weird. So it’s a good thing I have a big screen and surround sound I watch them on. (Btw read that in a totally sarcastic mind voice)
So I have registered MKV and bought a refurb pc for $150 and three external drives. All 3 drives can rip Blu-ray’s at the same time. I can only burn one disc using my Mac. All computers use same MKV license. Save all media to external drives which become my backups. I copy files to my NAS. All I was looking for is a drive to rip my 4K. Thanks for video and tips!
EXCELLENT and informative video. I had previously installed it, and it rips DVDs just fine, but after 3 blurays it wouldn't allow me to rip any more blurays. I thought I'd have to buy a key until I saw your video as to how to get the free key. Now it works on blurays and DVDs just fine. So a great bit THANK YOU!
great tutorial. used it for years and this is spot on for both Blu ray and 4k. only issue is subtitles not working all the time. Example Avengers. In the beginning when Natasha is held you dont get the standard English subtile. But on Inglorus Basterds you do get it.
Thanks for watching! Subtitles are a mixed bag with 4K unfortunately. I hope that by selecting all the English subtitles in the movie people will get all the data they need but it's hard to predict how the studio will format them on the disc. I appreciate the feedback! :)
@@TwoGuyzTech Though I use Mac, there is on older windows a download called ClownBD. It is a group of software (free) that does very well with subtitles if you make an effort. As forced subs can be a stream of its own or a subset of a stream, you can find which is which and flag it as forced. Something if you have time you may want to check out. Also, be aware that it uses a specific older version of Java.
There’s an app called subtitle edit that OCRs the subtitle file and saves it as a text file, which you then can add to your handbrake file. It can select multiple sub files, so you can get the standard subs, the foreign language bits, etc.
I learn today that I can unselect all audio fils in just 1 click, cool! Shame Dolby Vision disk can't be rip yet with MakeMKV 1.17.5. THX for the video.
Just a quick pointer you need to flag the forced subs as well NAME = Forced and FLAG = df. Also VC1 codec does not work so you will have to convert the vc1 codec to a format plex likes. The only blurays I have trouble with are 3D blurays. Also check you disc as slight scratches or dirty disc will end in a failed rip or will not rip at all. And for tv series and film naming I use a programme called Filebot it has saved my countless hours renaming boxsets etc.
Could you give a more detailed description of the subtitle settings you've mentioned. I recently went through a lot of research to get forced subtitles to work correctly for me in Plex. I just want to make sure that your settings get included in my workflow, but I'm not sure where or how you're setting these values. Thanks in advance, and thanks for making this point. I don't think a lot of people know how to get forced subtitles to work correctly in Plex. ~Frank
I have problem with VC-1 codec a well….but it seems to be the client that most often doesn’t support them rather than the Plex server… I tried to use handbrake to converte to h.264 or h.265 but I don’t know how to do in order to avoid any video degradation and I just want to pass all the audio untouched. I don’t care about reducing file size….
@@yourpalfranc 12:29 the subtitles labeled (forced only) - click on that, then choose Properties. “FLAG” will = d for default, you want to add f next to d - as in “df” - so that FLAG = df This way your player gets “flagged” to play the forced subs. For some reason, d is not enough to flag the player. The df must be flagged to the player.
Thank you. I am echoing so many comments here. Excellent tutorial, very well presented and easy to follow. I am waiting on delivery of the Pioneer drive and look forward to ripping my extensive movie library.
LOL - I learned by googling how to do this yesterday and today this pops in my feed. Dang you google! But this was helpful and I learned a couple things. this works GREAT on my Mac with the LG bluray I flashed.
I would like to mention. On Make MKV there is another option called Backup where you will have all the menus also installed. I hope you will try and comment on this option
NOTICE! Anyone who bought the pioneer drive and is having trouble ripping, as long as your firmware is before Dec 2022, such as version 1.02, you need a VPN to bypass the ISP geolock caused by the war so that makemkv can communicate with the server. This did the trick for me. Hopefully it helps you too.
Great tutorial, I’ve been ripping DVDs and Blu-rays for some time using Make MKV and using PLEX and an older PC to store my rips. I’ve never tried it with 4K Blu-ray. As I’ve never owned a 4K Blu-ray player I’ve never bought any UHD Blu-ray Discs. I’ve got a fairly new (2019) Pioneer drive in my PC so I’ve taken a risk and ordered a UHD disc to test it out. 🤞
How did it work out for you? I'll be trying this for the first time when mine arrives in the next couple days. I'm curious about the level of learning curve involved for someone with a basic understanding of PC's. I installed Make MKV, and purchased a 20Tb HDD, but I'm waiting on the Pioneer drive.
@@ChrisWaters If you mean which player did I buy, it was a Sony UBP-X700 UHD BD Player, I picked this one as it also played SACDs as well & I do have a small collection of those discs. If you mean which drive I have in my PC it was a Pioneer BDR-212DBK, but the firmware was 1.03 which means it won’t work as a 4K disc ripper with MKV.
Good info, I've been using an internal Pioneer Bluray drive, never had a reason to upgrade to a 4K drive because I could never find a decent one. Also been using two other converters too, Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate and Acrok Video Converter, though I have not tried them with 4K discs. Aimersoft has a lot of other tools and even rips RU-vid videos to your computer (and other video sites if they're supported) and Acrok is a good, lightweight converter, sometimes converts the occasional disc that Aimersoft didn't pick up. I shall add MakeMVK to my list now :D
Be carful ripping the audio depending on what you are going to play the ripped movie on not all things support the audio tracks. Best to stick with the normal Dolby audio then the HD audio but if you are going to play back the ripped movie on your surround sound rip the HD audio
I am using the Verbatim Slimline bluray burner which I can recommend. Apparently it comes in three different variants where only one of them reads 4K, otherwise they're all the same hardware except for what type of USB connection it depends on. It is very small and even fits into one of those CD carrying cases in fabric, if it is square shaped. The only downside I find is that it feels a bit fragile when it's open as it is not a laydown tray but rather a pinch-center arm that comes out and that feels a bit flimsy. Very cheap though, it's the best way to get into burning bluray backups in case you're stuck in the cloud or on external hard drives prone to mechanical failure or handling malpractice.
@@hammerheadyak I have never tried but yes, it should be able. It's just about having the right software. I have the 43890 model which doesn't do 4K/UHD but does BDXL. It's the 43888 that does both.
@@fortynine3225 Good to know, and I'll keep that in mind. Still, it's conveniently small, it was cheap and seems to do the job. If the opposite is buying a chassis mounted drive then I'm out of luck anyway; my last tower was my XP computer and I have no intention of going back to them. As an entry model, it's still easy to recommend to newcomers since it does the deal and is fairly quiet since it only goes to 6x. I've had fat DVD drives that were insanely fast but could bring down the house walls by being so loud.
@@Henkibojj I was looking into that a week or so ago with folks on Forums advising strongly against buying a slim burner. I bought a OWC Mercury Pro, with being very fast and highly rated being a sales argument, for online HD movies and flac music burning on a disc (i do own lots of blu-rays and CDs but some stuff i like is not for sale that way). And i bough BD-R and M DISC BD-R (which is suppost to last decades). So it is not about ripping for me but putting data on.
I've been following along with every one that has their procedure for ripping blu Ray dish and I still get no disk after downloading the blu Ray disk. I'm using an ASUS blu ray player.
I remember the old school days when youtube wouldn't even allow video postings on this sort of content. Shows you how much they don't care now. I've been ripping movies for years. Just keep in mind it's for personal use not duplication.
I've been ripping movies with MakeMKV and DVDFAB. The thing I've been wanting to do is combine 2 discs into one file. Like Zack Synder Justice League, extended versions of Lord of the rings and the hobbit.. Has anyone been able to do this?
Is it also possible to burn 4K HDR movies to a BDXL disc with this burning device? If so, does the 4K HDR effect stay the same or doesn't the BDXL disc support HDR image? And what about 120fps? Does the BDXL disc support this too? I really want to know. And another question: which edit software program does support highest picture quality (4K HDR 120fps) to be burned on BDXL disc WITH the possibility of making a Blu-ray menu structure (START FILM, CHAPTERS etc.)? Does anyone know???
Thanks for the video. Although I am quite familiar with MakeMKV, I was not aware of the "Expert mode" setting - seems useful and will certainly look into it next time I use MakeMKV. Couple questions regarding the license that you mentioned was purchased 12 yrs back 1) Is it still working on new installs of MakeMKV 2) Can this license be used on multiple devices? I use different computers (Intel NUC, 2011 Mac Mini, etc.) depending on where I am (home theater room, server room etc.) doing the ripping and wonder if the same license can be used on multiple devices or would I need to purchase separate licenses for each? Thanks. And keep up the great work! 👍
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful. Yep our old existing license still works on new installs and you can use it across as many devices as you want.
@@TwoGuyzTech Though if you use it a lot and having given him anything in 12 years, you should consider a donation to him by 'buying' the license again.
I own both a windows desktop and a MacBook Pro. With MKV on my Mac I ended up getting constant error messages in regards to permissions so I removed it from the Mac. Currently using mkv going through my collection of tv shows etc, doing the DVD’s at the moment until I purchase a blu ray.
Great guide. I found my old bluray drive the other week, unfortunately liteon drives don't seem to be listed as compatible :( guess I have to go buy a new bluray drive lol, after putting my old one in storage more than 10 years ago.
In settings if you select your preferred language it will remember the setting and you wont have to continually go through all the BS you showed in the menu with audio and subtitle selection as it will uncheck all the foreign languages and subtitles for you. You're also better off making a backup copy (Decrypted) of the disc to an SSD and then make an MKV file from the backup rather than doing it directly from the disc. The reason is because it eliminates any potential hiccup/pause/stutter in the mkv file that might occur with the continual delay and interruption of waiting for the BluRay drive. Also, if you're not happy with the mkv that you made via the disc method (perhaps there was something missed in selection menu) it is far easier to go back into the copy rather than load and wait for the disc again.
I remember using Guardian Knot to rip dvds and trying to find the best profile to encode using Xvid, cuz Divx was for the rich man hahaha And don't get me started with the hardware encoding acceleration using GPUs. Also did some customize ass file for subs for Karaoke style LoL really good times. Today we have easy access to NAS so storage isn't a issue anymore, we just decrypt put everything into a container mkv and be done with it. And you can do it with a crappy computer no need for beefy CPU and GPU to do the heavy lifting.
@@ChristianStout Handbrake is the usual but don't. Re-encoding always reduces quality. May not be that noticeable but then you might as well just get the cheaper blu-ray if you don't care about the quality. It also can take a half a day just to do one high quality encode depending on your machine. So much quicker, easier and more ideal to just get a few big HDD's. They are nothing compared to the cost the discs you'd put on them.
@@thepathnotfound Uh, what?? NVME drives have been measured in terabytes forever and 1-2TB drives standard everywhere. 4 and 8 TB models are available as well if you want to drop the coin. Though there is no point in storing video on NVME drives unless you have more $ than sense. HDDs are cheap and can serve up more full bitrate UHD streams than you can use. And of course you can raid them if you really want some fast sequential read/writes. My 4 raid 0 18TB drives can write sustain ~1GB per second writes and reads.
I had a lot of Blu-rays movies backups in my hard drives in 4K (.mkv) that I back up long time ago with the size of 21GB or less but with the VLC media player, I discover that I can convert all these media from 21 GB to 4 GB each with the same quility. On VLC media player, you just go on midia menu then convert/ save and than You chose the movie 21 GB for exemple to convert to .MP4 to another place in your computer. I save almost 1 Terabyte on this.
I was dabbling with 4k rips a couple years ago... and remember there being issues ripping the HDR/Dolby Vision layer of the movie. Has this been fixed?
Thanks for watching - MakeMKV does properly rip Dolby Vision enhancement layer data and embeds it into the MKV using DV profile 7, which is not supported by the vast majority of players yet (which usually support DV profile 5, the Dolby Vision format used by most streaming services). So unless you have a player that can handle Dolby Vision in an MKV you will probably only get HDR10. But we still like to rip these movies in order to future-proof our library. Hope this helps :)
@@tomconnell7154 just check the technical specs of your player or test it in a store before buying one. That's what I did before buying a Zappiti Neo and it works great.
Thanks for watching! Theoretically you could probably do this if the movie included an audio track without the dialogue. In our experience though most of the movies we've ripped have all of the dialogue baked into the soundtracks so you wouldn't be able to isolate them unfortunately. Hope this helps!
I’ve been using an old laptop and an external hard drive, but so far, I can only watch DVDs as my laptop isn’t fast enough to stream the Blu-ray rips. Eventually I want to invest in a NAS unit to hold even more discs.
All good! The thing I like is the fact that you can get a feel for it by reusing old hardware (like your old laptop) before making a big investment. It's a system that you can build up over time to suit your needs which is just really cool to me. Thanks for watching :)
Thanks for watching! ISO files can be nice if you want to perfectly preserve the entire disc including menus, but they do take up more space and cannot be streamed over applications like Plex.
Thanks for watching! I tried looking up the ASUS BW-16D1X-U on the MakeMKV forums but unfortunately it sounds like that drive probably isn't going to work for 4K movies. We posted a link to a MakeMKV forum thread that has several different Blu-ray drives that are compatible with 4K ripping, and we can also highly recommend the Pioneer USB model that we linked in the description. Hope this helps!
I also found my other blu-ray drive, and its an LG BP50NB40, and I saw on the MKV page that there is a blu-ray drive BP50NB40 that will work, but doesn't specifically say LG. Do you think whoever made the list just forgot to put LG on there, and how do you flash a drive, because I don't know how, and don't want to mess it up.
@@silverbulletfan We bought the Pioneer drive to bypass all of the patching so we're not sure about what the process would be for that specific model. Our drive worked right out of the box so if you can patch your drive you probably don't have to make any changes to the app. The MakeMKV forums are a great resource as well.
Great informative video. Only one suggestion, loose the word "Actually," which you constantly say. That word serves as an unnecessary filler word such as "like," "you know," and "um." Other than that, I did learn quite a bit. Thanks!
Thanks for watching! If the Xbox supports playing MKV files from a USB drive then that would work just fine, but we're not sure if it does. We don't have our own Xbox to test, but as far as we can tell you might have to convert those files to a format the Xbox can read, like MP4, or use a third party app on the Xbox that can read MKV files like VLC or Kodi. Hope this helps!
Good Video! Maybe you should follow up with a more complicated title (multiple playlists on the disc) and how one goes about identifying the proper playlist.
That is only a problem with a handful of discs encoded to try to make that hard to figure out. For those MakeMKV can tell you which one is likely the right one and/or the forums can verify.
There are plenty of drives that can be patched to enable LibreDrive functionality. I patched my LG WH16NS40 this evening. Took about ten seconds with the GUI and it now works just fine.
You can occasionally get that. It's likely the laser alignment on the drive is just not quite right for that disc. If you do this sort of thing a lot it's better to have more than one BluRay drive when such a situation happens.
it is worth to change the minimum title length if you care about the movie extras. Some are shorter than the for MakeMKV standard 120 seconds. i usually have it at 1 second but that might not be the best idea as you end up with loads of small useless video files.
Hi and thanks for watching! Honestly, I have never tried to return a disc to Amazon, so I can't say for sure what their policy is, but I would guess if it's been opened and it's not damaged, then they may not accept a return.
Can you cofirm if this, Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD, can play read 4K UHD discs out of the box, did you have to downgrade or upgrade your firmware, or could you already play read 4K UHD disc out of the box, please let me know before i buy one. Thanks.
Thanks for watching! Can confirm as of the time of buying our drive, which wasn't that long ago, the Pioneer can rip 4K Blu-rays out of the box without any firmware upgrade/downgrade. And this should stay the same unless there's a change made by Pioneer. Hope this helps!
