1/17/2024 0 Comments Makemkv beta workaround![]() ![]() I have a huge CD collection but I stopped buying media because I couldn’t find what I wanted without jumping through 100 Hoops of having the right permissions in the right devices to actually see what I was paying for, so I just stopped caring. What idiot that is paying attention to how all this DRM is destroying ownership would even bother to buy anything with it attached? I can’t even get a guarantee I’ll be able to watch something in 10 years let alone 4. To be clear- I *want* to, but there’s no point because every time I turn around there’s a new DRM attached to some idiots new medium. I haven’t bought in music or movies in years because of bull like this. Things like this constantly coming up every time a new technology comes out is exactly why I just gave up ever buying media. Physical media rules in one aspect where streaming can’t compete: you can’t bequeath your Spotify subscription in your will, but you can bequeath your CD/LP/Tape collection, and in my case, I have family members that do share my music tastes. The people involved in making each recording have got their cut. I’ve still got the “personal use license” to play this material in private… that was obtained with the purchase of the original media. Having it all on the computer means I can mix and match a playlist (randomly selected) which spans CDs, music DVDs, LPs and (legally purchased!) FLAC downloads… and can just play in the background without distraction, and without requiring an Internet connection. But, they continued on this for a while, so I made a point of buying the LP of albums since those were incapable of such shenanigans. Copying the material doesn’t hurt the artists anywhere near as much as distribution of the copied material does. It was also about this time that record companies were putting logic bombs in their CDs to try and catch music pirates. Plus, the MP3 sites of the day didn’t really cover the music I like listening to.Īt the time there was a genuine concern of mine that I may “lose access” to these recordings when my turntable dies (an unfounded concern it seems, I’ve both still got the Kenwood P-110 I was given as a birthday present back in 2002 as well as having acquired a JVC JL-A1). I bought LPs years ago because in the early part of this century, they were cheaper than even used CDs, and on my unemployed uni student budget, that was a critical factor. ![]() Records are nice to listen to… maybe not as good quality as a CD but they get damn close… but yeah, listening to them is a ritual.Ĭlean the player, clean the stylus, clean the record… repeat after playback too. Give XMedia Recode a try: “XMedia Recode is a Freeware video and audio transcoding program for Microsoft Windows developed by Sebastian Dörfler.” XMedia Recode is a fairly close drop-in replacement for WinFF.īoth HandBrake and XMedia Recode for Windows come in installable or portable (stand-alone no-installer) versions. HandBrake is probably the best transcoder out there right now, it’s free and open (GPL-2.0), powerful, actively maintained, cross-platform, and it has a community forum. Take a look at Wikipedia’s “Comparison of video converters” page for better alternatives. WinFF used to be the go-to GUI converter in Windows (it’s a front-end for FFmpeg), but it looks like that’s dead now. Please check back for updated key on this page.” The current beta key is … and is valid until end of January 2022. “As stated on a main page all features of MakeMKV are free while program is in beta. Posted in computer hacks, News Tagged 4K Blu-ray, blu-ray, drm, intel, Intel Core, SGX, Ultra HD Blu-ray Post says: “I use MakeMKV for the ripping and playing of DVDs and Blu-rays.” Do you have a collection of DRM 4K Blu-ray discs, and if so, do you play them via your computer or a stand-alone player? Presumably any 4K discs without DRM will still play, and of course you can still play the DRM discs on older Intel processors. This problem only applies to 4K Blu-ray discs with DRM. Not only Intel, but AMD has had similar issues as we wrote about in October. ![]() But there have been numerous vulnerabilities discovered in the intervening years. The SGX extensions were introduced with the sixth generation of Intel Core Skylake processors in 2015, the same year as Ultra HD Blu-ray, aka 4K Blu-ray. These extensions are required for DRM processing on these discs, hence the problem. This week Techspot reported that DRM-laden Ultra HD Blu-ray Discs won’t play anymore on computers using the latest Intel Core processors. You may have skimmed right past it, but the table on page 51 of the latest 12th Generation Intel Core Processor data sheet (184 page PDF) informs us that the Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) have been deprecated. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |