20th March, 2018.
I have to admit, I had an … issue … last night: believe it or not, whilst writing up the post about another episode of The Man in the High Castle.
Some of my media files?
Wouldn’t open with the version of QuickTime Player that cam with High Sierra – given me a rather long error code, ‘1718449215.’
I had to admit, I got a relatively late night: tinkering around, trying to see what I could do to solve the issue.
And realised that the files causing issues had extra audio tracks — commentary, remixed audio tracks, what-have-you — as opposed to the ones that weren’t causing problems.
Which had just the one.
The simplest fix I found for this?
Is simply to re-rip the file with
HandBrake.
~≈§≈~
In other (ish) news?
I’ve now managed to connect the new blu-ray drive I bough to my new iMac.
It works: and happily shows up.
Unfortunately?
I can’t use the current version of HandBrake without using a hack: which, in theory lets me install
libdvdcss, the library that lets me get around DVD’s copy protection.
Not, at least, without being asked to a root password in Terminal.
However, there’s a work around, there.
I can still
MakeMKV* to turn the contents of a DVD or bluray into .mkv files: which can then be ripped by HandBrake, as usual.
There’s always a way …
~≈§≈~
