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Ripping Software
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Ripping software takes original media (discs) and converts it into something digital that can then be further processed as needed by :doc:`conversion software <../convert/index>`.
When you rip your original media, sometimes you have a disc that has, say, the "theatrical release" as well as an "extended" or "unrated" release. It's helpful to know the differences so you can see which is which (since you don't get menus). `The 'Movie Censorship' site `_ is a great place to tell you exactly - second for second, frame for frame - the differences between one movie cut and another.
Some Blu-ray discs have an odd sort of copy protection on them that shows you literally hundreds of nearly identical titles. Blu-ray disc movies are sometimes made up of "playlists" that play one movie segment after another. These nearly identical titles are different playlists that are showing the movie *out of order*. Only one of them actually plays the movie in the right order.
To make it worse, different versions of the disc - say, the one sold at Amazon vs. the one sold at Target - will have different fake titles and the correct one will be different.
Be prepared to read a lot of forum posts when you run into this. It's a solvable thing, it just takes time.
- `The MakeMKV forum `_ is a good place to search for answers. People run up against this and will generally post the answer for you.
- `The AVS Forum Blu-ray Info thread `_ can sometimes help, though it's hard to read and the info there is dense.
- Search engines are your friend. If I can't find what I'm looking for, I'll generally search on ``movie-title mpls`` (mpls is the name of the "playlist format" on a Blu-ray) or ``movie-title makemkv`` like ``hunger games makemkv``.
- If all else fails, `this forum post tells you how to manually figure it out yourself using MakeMKV `_.
**Software I use for ripping content:**
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makemkv.rst