Help! MakeMKV Fails to Save

[mugz8391]

Here is the log - it doesn't even give an error - it writes the entire MKV file and then when it gets to the end, it just deletes it - is there any way to make it NOT delete the file at the end? :

MakeMKV v1.15.2 win(x64-release) started
Using direct disc access mode
Evaluation version, 30 day(s) out of 30 remaining
Loaded content hash table, will verify integrity of M2TS files.
File 01008.mpls was added as title #0
File 01009.mpls was added as title #1
Title #01009.mpls(1) has length of 9 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00000.m2ts has length of 19 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00001.m2ts has length of 60 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00002.m2ts has length of 60 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00003.m2ts has length of 60 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00004.m2ts has length of 60 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00005.m2ts has length of 60 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00006.m2ts has length of 60 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title #00007.m2ts has length of 60 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
File 00008.m2ts was added as title #2
Title #00009.m2ts has length of 9 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Title 00010.m2ts is equal to title 01009.mpls and was skipped
Title #00011.m2ts has length of 9 seconds which is less than minimum title length of 120 seconds and was therefore skipped
Operation successfully completed
Saving 1 titles into directory E:/
Failed to save title 0 to file E://BABYMETAL - Live in London_t00.mkv
0 titles saved, 1 failed

[netmask56]

You may get a quicker response from the forum https://www.makemkv.com/forum/ on errors like this..

[johns0]

Try saving it to your document/video folder,might be a permission writing glitch with windows.

[ronmaz]

Failed to save title 0 to file E://BABYMETAL - Live in London_t00.mkv

Check your output folder path. Shouldn't there only be 1 slash after the E: ? You have 2.

[jan5678]

Failed to save title 0 to file E://BABYMETAL - Live in London_t00.mkv

Check your output folder path. Shouldn't there only be 1 slash after the E: ? You have 2.

Clever noticed

And as far as i remember windows uses backslashes not forward? I use Linux but used Windows in the past.

[mugz8391]

MakeMKV has no problem with other disks writing to my E drive - its just a drive I use for storage - it was just this ONE disk that for some reason was giving MakeMKV fits. It will rip and back up the disk fine to a directory, I can even create an ISO from the directory that mounts and plays just as well as the original disk. What I found out is that MakeMKV fails quite often when trying to make MKV files - if you go to their forum they have a whole section titled "If you're experiencing rip errors, please read here first!" and lots of folks have disks that play fine and rip just fine to a directory but they cant get MakeMKV to mux the audio / video into an MKV file. I finally gave up and started looking at some other tools. I installed BDtoAVCHD and it worked like a charm with no errors, it simply takes the audio and video and remuxes them, (in remux only mode), untouched, to an MKV file - preserving the chapters and everything just like MakeMKV is "supposed" to do...

[mugz8391]

Failed to save title 0 to file E://BABYMETAL - Live in London_t00.mkv

Check your output folder path. Shouldn't there only be 1 slash after the E: ? You have 2.

I just posted the log from MakeMKV - it appears that the double forward slashes is not the only thing they goofed on.

[mugz8391]

I'll post this here too - may help if someone is having the same problem:

I had some more time to play with this today. As I said, I have this disk that MakeMKV can backup just fine to a directory, but quits with a bunch of errors if I try to use MakeMKV to mux the audio and video untouched from the blue ray OR from the backup to create an MKV file. Using another program, BDtoAVCHD to mux the audio and video into an MKV file from the backup created by MakeMKV I got my MKV file with the chapters etc preserved and it plays fine...

Now, "presumably" - there was some error with my disk and it was the "error checking" in MakeMKV that found those errors and refused to mux the audio and video files from the Blu-Ray itself or from MakeMKV's own backup. So what I did was take the MKV that was created by BDtoAVCHD and ran that through MakeMKV, and guess what? No Error!

Now all that BDtoAVCHD did was take the video steam and audio stream, untouched, and mux them into an MKV container, yet MakeMKV found no errors:

MakeMKV v1.15.2 win(x64-release) started
Debug logging enabled, log will be saved as C:\Users\William/MakeMKV_log.txt
DEBUG: Code 233 at iGYpn7uVibUVvgGm2nePTDPz:0
Operation successfully completed
Saving 1 titles into directory E:/
1 titles saved

"Something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

[davexnet]

Was this a commercial, protected, disk ?

I had a DVD that MakeMKV was unable to read recently.
This was a commercial disk from about 10 or 15 years ago. I could hear the DVD drive mechanism
making weird sounds as it encountered *something* it didn't like. (I assume it was kind of retry, over and over)

Abandoned that, used DVDFab 8, and ripped the main movie in 20 minutes, no drama

[mugz8391]

Yes this was a commercial protected disk I ordered from Japan. I was just trying to figure out what MakeMKV's problem was with it.