BluRay Remuxes, BDMV folders, & BluRay disk playback

[citronleaf]

How long have you used it now? It looks like it should be a repack of MakeMKV and would likely expire when the latest MakeMKV expires, which is the end of last month. But I think you should get 30 days with a brand-new install and no previous install. I am not sure this is any better than getting it directly from the MakeMKV site and this version could be packed with malware.

I tried the link anyway and the first download immediately installed Yandex browser and opened a page in Russian, which I can not read, and no obvious way to translate it. I uninstalled that. Second try gave me MakeMKV, which I installed. It was immediately expired because MakeMKV is expired for me.

The MakeMKV software itself has not been updated since May. The Beta key expired at the end of July.
https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1053
It has not been able to be purchased for weeks.
https://www.makemkv.com/buy/

Various forums confirmed this experience is shared by others, but I got tired of finding no actual answers several days ago and stopped looking.

I fear the worst for Mike admin.

AND I THINK THAT MAKEMKV IS DEAD.

I have been occasionally resetting my system clock to use MakeMKV but that has gotten old real fast, and I am not sure it will keep working forever. In some cases I have been using XMediaRecode as an alternate. Does anyone know of any free DVD/BluRay Remuxers that work at least almost as well as MakeMKV?

[DreamScape]

I have been occasionally resetting my system clock to use MakeMKV but that has gotten old real fast, and I am not sure it will keep working forever.

It should keep working, but it will be more and more disruptive.

I suppose a possible solution is to run MakeMKV from a virtual machine where you can just keep the clock set in the past without causing issues with your main operating system. But that is quite a bit of overhead

The developer's disappearance is concerning

[Alex_kaplan]

I rarely use the program MakeMKV RePack - but no malware has been detected, yes when you download it from the link, the browser scolds about malware, - I use this program for more than half a year

You can search the network MakeMKV RePack newer version, when you search for a lot of results, but you can run into viruses, downloading from obscure resources

[citronleaf]

But that is quite a bit of overhead

Gee, if I wanted to put in the work to learn how to run a virtual machine then the FIRST thing I would do BEFORE that is learn how to use Linux again. (It has been at least 15 years and I was not very good at it.) Doing that would be work with more value, and I could run Windows on a virtual machine!

The developer of MakeMKV gave us years of use of great software. It is a shame there is not an archived "forever" version of a DVD-only MakeMKV. (Or is there?) Alex_kaplan, I am pretty sure that when I used MakeMKV on BDMVs is when I had the ongoing problems with expiration. Hopefully your version will continue to work without expiration as long as you only use it on DVDs.

[Alex_kaplan]

Yes, I also constantly had problems with the regular version of MakeMKV and had to constantly update it, that's why I wondered - if you download a cracked version repack - there will be no updates, it's like an archive - and it works without expiration

[citronleaf]

The problem is, my existing expiration "rolled over" onto it when I tried the repack. I have no idea how to get around that. Hmmm, maybe if I uninstall the old one first instead of letting the new install take care of it? I will have to try when I have time...

[ghost]

I always update to the latest version and I never had an "expiration" message or something like that in years. So I don't understand the issue.

[citronleaf]

Hmmm, do you use it for BluRays too, or just DVD?

[ghost]

Hmmm, do you use it for BluRays too, or just DVD?

I only used it for DVDs so far. Maybe it's different with blu-ray remuxes.

[Alex_kaplan]

The problem is, my existing expiration "rolled over" onto it when I tried the repack. I have no idea how to get around that. Hmmm, maybe if I uninstall the old one first instead of letting the new install take care of it? I will have to try when I have time...

Of course you need to delete everything that is associated with the old version, and then only load MakeMKV RePack and it will work, also when updating a newer version of MakeMKV - I always delete the old version