Blu-Ray Conversion heads up

[Steve Guttag]

I, personally, years ago, just bought the license. I've also, personally, donated to DOM...if for no other reason, these guys deserve compensation for the work they do. I only ever use them something like 1-2 times a year...if that. This stuff just isn't all that expensive and, in the case of Make MKV...the license is perpetual (just like in the olden days):

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So...are you wanting to "rent" computer time on my registered version

[Ryan Gallagher]

Does anyone else appreciate the irony of professional cinemas having to crack the encryption on a disk so they can show it and give money to the movie companies....

For sure. We have a functioning 1080p and also a 4K player... but even I've had to rip a film that was only available for another region to get a viable 35mm backup option. There are "region free" players out there... but we don't have one.

[Frank Cox]

Does anyone else appreciate the irony of professional cinemas having to crack the encryption on a disk so they can show it and give money to the movie companies....

[Ryan Gallagher]

Cheers, yeah I should have mentioned the “for now” date workaround, but felt this topic was already somewhat inappropriate here. ;-)

[Ed Gordon]

This happens occasionally. It has been "in Beta" as long as I can remember. When it comes back buy a permanent key.

In the meantime, you can disconnect your PC from the network, change the system date to any day in July of 2025. It will run then. There may be issues when Makemkv contacts the server. I confirmed this will get rid of the July license failure because it is August.

[Dustin Grush]

Good info to know ahead of time, especially this time of year for us. I'm going to have to try this 'date change workaround' and see if it holds water.


From the forum...
Yes, you can temporarily change the date of your PC before launching MakeMKV to anywhere in July then immediately return it to current after launching MakeMKV.

Regarding Mike being MIA, it is common for it to be 2 or 3 days after a beta key expires before Mike updates it, but we are now at more than 1 week since it expired so this is an unusual situation.
Hopefully Mike returns soon and fixes things so people can buy licenses, not to mention fix the beta key so people who want to use the free version can, but at this point I am hoping he is alive & well.

[Ryan Gallagher]

It's probably a bit uncouth of a topic here. But plenty of people have mentioned their modus operandi with blu-ray screenings (private events etc) is to rip them and convert to DCP for reliability reasons.

Just a heads up that the developer of MakeMKV appears to be MIA right now, and the current "beta" key expired July 31st. Tons of people panic-purchased a perpetual license, but their payment system quickly ran out of keys to issue and started doing refunds.

Over in that forum there is a lot of speculation and hoping the dev is okay and will reappear. We only "just" got a capable optical drive via our IT department for our booth... and then this.

If you bought a key previously, you are one of the lucky ones right now.