www.makemkv.com

I paid for the key a while back and this program is great, but I am looking to customize and automate a setup to convert a shelf of DVDs. I want to have all subtitles and (english as well as japanese) audio tracks in the output files. I have been searching on google as well as these forums for several days and haven't been able to understand the proper setup.

I have a settings.conf file in ~/home/.MakeMKV/ and it contains a line for my key as well as a line for ccextractor. I noticed a notification that my key was less then 30 days so I am not certain if adding the line for ccextractor broke something on my config. Is there another location to configure ccextractor to avoid the error messages when running?

I read a lot about the profiles. I dug a while and finally found some copies of the default.mmcp.xml file and it seems like I need to edit the line for "app_DefaultSelectionString". Is that correct or is that now obsolete since I saw a comment saying that it is ignored by MakeMKV 1.14.4 and later.

I would appreciate if someone could give me a hand for my linux setup. (Linux mint and Ubuntu server - testing to see which works better for me) I think I mainly need to know which file to edit and where it would be found? I have an idea on the profile string if they are still valid. Though couldn't I just do "+sel:all" to grab everything?

OH I am running with the version MakeMKV 1.14.3

Thanks,
Nathan

The setting string found in the profiles no longer affects the selection of tracks. You can change the one in Preferences->Advanced (if you have expert mode enabled) in the GUI, and it should set it for both the GUI and the command line version.

I am running with an OS that is command line only so I don't have the GUI to set initially. Is there another file that I can edit or command line arguments that I can pass to makemkvcon?

I got it working.

To clarify for any other newbies, the advanced profile settings are now in /home/<username>/.MakeMKV/settings.conf.
This file has entries for your permanent/monthly key
Add a line for custom profile:
app_DefaultSelectionString="+sel:all"

"+sel:all" (selects all the audio and subtitle tracks)
"-sel:all,+sel:(eng|jpn),-sel:mvcvideo,+sel:subtitle&(eng|jpn),=100:all,-10:favlang" (Grabs english and japanese audio and subtitles)

If you have installed ccextractor to avoid those error messages, add this line:
app_ccextractor = "/opt/ccextractor/linux/ccextractor" (Full path including filename)