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Hi all,

I'm relatively new to MakeMKV, but am having some real issues with 'Castle' on DVD.

I run Plex on an HP Proliant and am trying to create .mkv files to then stream to PS4, iPad etc. around the home.

I have manged to convert series 1 (although it takes aaages), but having moved on to Series 2 disc 3, I received multiple read errors with the program only managing to convert 3 of the 4 episodes.

Attached is the log from today's use... any help would be greatly appreciated

Unless ABC has re-mastered this series (which I doubt), the only error I got when ripping it was that many of the disks appeared to be pirate versions, even though they came from a legitimate source.

The errors in your log are consistent with a dirty/damaged disk. The "DEVICE STATUS DATA ERROR" is when the drive is spending too much time trying to read marginal sectors, and Windows thinks it is off-line.

I suggest cleaning them, because they're probably old enough to have accumulated quite a bit of "packaging fog" on them.

Thanks woodstock, will give that a go and report back

Your help is much appreciated.

So... giving the discs a clean has certainly helped

I'm now on the second disk of S3, but am running in to another problem - one of the episodes is missing a chapter when I try and make an .mkv.

When using 'advanced mode' the title shows 9 cells and a length of 39:52, but when it then loads, it only has 7 cells and a length of 27:56


The segment map shows (1,3-8), as if it is missing segment 2...? I am most certainly a novice with this so apologies if I am missing something obvious. I've tried giving the disc another clean, PC reboot etc. to no avail.

Thanks in advance!

Jyaxl

Having posted my last, it then occurred to me to try and force MM to pull in cells1-9 using manual mode - rather than where I had previously just selected that title.

It now shows the correct time but is throwing numerous errors - log attached.

Thanks again in advance of any help