r/makemkv

I bought a secondhand Philips BDP3000/05 earlier this year and when it works, its great! An inexpensive bluray and dvd player - however sometimes it gets stuck on its "STARTING" phase of bootup.

I've gone through so many Google searches and Gemini questions about it and it seems that older Philips models of bluray players had a somewhat known bug in some firmware revisions, and the later/latest update patches the bug - which makes sense, except I can't find the patch for download anywhere!

As I understand it, formatting a standard usb drive to fat32, extracting the file to it and plugging it into the bluray player triggers it to automatically launch straight to the patch, and I believe 1142.1 is the last update Philips put out for the BDP3000 series. While the official Philips website does still have the webpage for the BDP3000/05 (with a downloads and updates tab), the file to download leads to a dead link (this causes an ethernet connection from the player to my router to also not work).

I found a couple of forum pages mention the update, but lead to either dead or questionable links.

Does anyone have the file they could pass onto me, or know of some archived pages that might host the file? It'd be greatly appreciated, I just wanna use my bluray player reliably 😅

Many thanks in advance!

In May I purchased this drive, the LG WH16NS60: https://www.ebay.com/itm/206262025139

It was advertised as crossflashed and UHD MakeMKV ready. Here is the current drive info on my copy of MakeMKV.

https://preview.redd.it/lmedwsan1hbh1.png?width=1281&format=png&auto=webp&s=e3280dcce47b15f26e4f27b255bee44aa23d7649

I have used this drive to rip 10-15 Blu Ray discs so far, and have had no trouble reading Blu Rays so far. However practically all UHD discs I have inserted have failed to read. Out of the 10-15 or so (both brand new and older) UHD discs I have tried so far, only 1 has succeeded in opening and ripping. Most of the discs will spin in the drive for approx. 60 seconds and then stop without opening the disc. A few will recognize in MakeMKV and begin to open but then fail halfway through opening. Usually when inserting a UHD disc the drive will make a "hiccup" sound that I don't hear when spinning regular BDs.

Attached above is a video of the drive spinning a UHD.

I have tried connecting it directly to my motherboard via an open SATA slot and also use a USB>SATA adapter with external power. Both connection methods have the same result. I have run a disc cleaner from BestBuy inside the drive, not sure if there is another one I should try.

Prior to this I bought a brand new Verbatim/LG BU40N from Amazon which does not read discs anymore after <6 months and only ripping <200 discs both UHD and BD. I really seem to be having bad luck with LG drives.

Is this WH16NS60 a bad drive or is there more I can do to troubleshoot?

Has this happened to anyone else? I put in Salem Witch Trials BD and it is labeled as this 🤣🤣🤣

Ripping 1974’s The Sky Hawk from the Golden Harvest Shining Stars volume 2 bluray box.

Is this an encoders secret prank. Or is it an A.I. mistake.

Or perhaps an A.I’s joke.

I’m going to have to change all my Mandarin tracks to Mandingo now.

Can anyone help with these errors? I tried twice with the same result.

I'm attempting to rip Charade 4K Criterion Collection. It is a brand new disk and I don't see any signs of scratching or damage.

The drive is an LG BP50NB40 crossflashed to BP60NB10 which has been working well for the past year on other 4K disks.

Not necessarily needing to flash this to support ripping 4Ks. I just want a portable player for writing BD-Rs and ripping regular Blu-rays for large shows like Star Trek without putting too much wear on my 4K friendly drives.

How's this file called a remux? It's not in HDR and all the 4k blu ray release of Oppenheimer were in HDR? So isn't it encoded without hdr rather than being called REMUX(untouched)???

I'm new to using MakeMKV, but after a bit of a learning curve, I feel like I understand the basics. I've successfully backed up a few movies so far, but I've run into a couple of issues with three different titles.

When creating an MKV of The Last Witch Hunter, MakeMKV showed multiple title selections instead of just a few. After ripping the movie, it plays without any sound.

The same thing happened with The Phantom—the rip completed successfully, but there was no audio during playback.

My third issue is with X-Men Origins: Wolverine. It also showed multiple title selections, but after ripping it, the movie plays with an audio description (voice-over for the visually impaired) instead of the soundtrack.

What am I doing wrong, and how can I fix these issues? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you for taking the time to read my post and help me out!

Hi, I recently found the website of Sxosi which is the brand for optical disc drives run by Shanxi Lightchain. I hired an interpreter to call the customer service line.This information is from talking to just one person in the sales department so there could be a couple of inaccuracies, but if you speak Mandarin you could call and double check this yourself.

https://sxosi.com/en/about/contact?navid=5

The good news is the Pioneer factory is still there and operational. They have production lines for every drive listed on the website. They are running an open factory with any production based on demand. The number to initially open a production line is 50,000 units .Which lines up with Asmcom's post on the forums. It was unclear if a subsequent order from the same production line has to be 50k too.

https://sxosi.com/en/pros/index1?navid=2&id=4

When asked if they had produced any orders for the disc drives in the past year and they said in their own words have "many clients" so as a guess at minimum probably at least a few 50k production runs. Sxosi don't keep any inventory and the buyers sell the drives themselves. So they are operating differently to Pioneer in that way.

They wouldn't tell me who the buyers were or where the drives could be bought at retail. Also wasn't able to get what drives they had produced although they said they hadn't done a run of the BDR-X16C-X (Pioneer BDR-X13E-X) which was a model I inquired about.

I emailed them later for a more formal response and so it would get to the exact right person. Asked in the email if they had a distributor in my country or if there was anywhere the drives could be bought at retail in China but didn’t get a reply.