freemkv Changelog

1.6.14

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Fixes

The web dashboard no longer briefly hangs while scanning a large library.

_This release aligns all components to 1.6.14._

1.6.13

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Drive support

freemkv info disc:// --share now captures a few additional drive responses on Pioneer / Renesas drives. If you have one of these drives and would like to help us add support for it, re-run the command and share the profile it prints.

_This release aligns all components to 1.6.13._

1.6.12

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Ripping

macOS: fixed a case where the disc could unmount partway through a rip — seen as E1000 ("Write failed"), with the disc then re-mounting on its own. freemkv now holds an exclusive claim on the drive for the whole rip, so the system no longer takes it back mid-read.
If the disc or drive state changes underneath a rip, freemkv now reacquires the drive and restarts the pass instead of failing the read.

_This release aligns all components to 1.6.12._

1.6.11

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Ripping

More reliable main-feature detection on Blu-ray and DVD discs: freemkv now follows the disc's own on-disc navigation to find the main feature, instead of guessing from title length alone, so it's far less likely to be fooled by a decoy title.

Autorip

Fixed a rare case where a disc could get stuck endlessly retrying a failed mux step instead of being marked as failed and moving on.

_This release aligns all components to 1.6.11._

1.6.10

Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Ripping

Fixed rare Dolby TrueHD / Atmos audio errors on discs that carry a gap in their transport stream: the ripped track could make some players report audio glitches around the affected moment, or an integrity checker flag the file as corrupt. freemkv now resynchronises the audio cleanly across such gaps, so the muxed file plays back and verifies without the errors. (The gapped instant is in the source and can't be recovered, but the file is no longer flagged corrupt.)

1.6.9

Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Autorip

Automatic per-episode TV ripping — insert a series disc and every episode comes out as its own Show S01E02 - Title.mkv, filed into TV/Show (Year)/Season NN/, with no operator step. Episodes are matched to TMDB and numbered correctly even when a season is split across several discs.
Manual Rename — file a disc under any exact name you type, with no TMDB match required, so an alternate cut (e.g. a “Super Duper Cut”) no longer collides with an already-ripped title.

_This release aligns all components to 1.6.9; only autorip changed._

1.6.8

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Autorip

Webhooks now fire per pipeline stage — Rip (the disc is read and the drive is free), Mux (the MKV is produced), and Move (the file lands in your library) — each independently selectable per hook
The Rip notification now arrives the moment the drive is free, so you can load the next disc while the mux keeps running in the background — instead of only arriving once the mux had finished
The Ripper tab's "still working in the background" banner now also shows while a file is being moved, not just while muxing

_This release aligns all components to 1.6.8; only autorip changed._

1.6.7

Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Autorip

Each webhook can now choose whether it fires on rip complete, move complete, or both
The Move card shows a separate progress bar for every moved file — the movie and its kept ISO each get their own
A title that is being moved is no longer listed twice in the Move card
A failed webhook now logs the real reason (e.g. the connection was reset) instead of a generic "uncategorized error"

_This release aligns all components to 1.6.7; only autorip changed._

1.6.6

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Autorip

Webhooks can now point at your LAN (e.g. a Home Assistant automation) — the private-address guard no longer blocks them

_This release aligns all components to 1.6.6; only autorip changed._

1.6.5

Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Autorip

Mobile-friendly dashboard
Save the intermediate or whole-disc ISO to a dedicated ISO folder
Rips made without a TMDB key now land in your movie library
Failed review actions now show an error instead of looking like they worked
A Stop that times out now says so instead of reporting success
A resumed box-set disc no longer writes a duplicate copy
A resumed rip can no longer be muxed short

Command line & desktop app

A re-mux that drops data no longer reports a clean success
A partly-recovered damaged disc is now reported even without --multipass, and the exit code matches
-t all on a disc whose scan failed now errors instead of quietly ripping only the first title
--help now lists every URL scheme the tool accepts; --language is documented
--language auto now follows your system language
Missing error messages no longer print as raw codes like error.E9056
info mkv://… now prints its labels in your language
A crashed rip can no longer report itself as finished
The CLI and desktop app no longer freeze mid-rip after an earlier hiccup
A value-taking flag can no longer swallow the URL or flag after it
Windows: dragging a disc onto the window mid-rip no longer discards the rip
Windows: File > Exit now honours the "rip still running" check
The desktop diagnostic log no longer grows without bound

Languages

Chinese (Simplified & Traditional) now display correctly
LC_ALL=C is now honoured over LC_MESSAGES
22 more messages translated across 29 languages

Discs & decoding

Fixes a Blu-ray whose title end could look cut off
Fixes swapped DVD subtitle colours
Audio/subtitle tracks in many languages no longer show as "undefined"
A split HD-DVD feature can no longer be exported as half the film
A Blu-ray title with an unreadable clip can no longer be exported short
A decrypted HD-DVD is no longer refused with a DVD copy-protection error
Stopping a scan can no longer make a disc look like it holds fewer titles
A failed read can no longer be papered over and reported complete
An ISO backup of an intact movie is no longer flagged seriously damaged
Cancelling a rip now keeps the sectors already recovered
A corrupt recovery mapfile is now refused instead of silently trusted

Security

--share now requires an explicit yes — a bare Enter declines
A failed settings save no longer leaves a plaintext token on disk
Disc-supplied text can no longer smuggle control characters into logs
Hardened the disc-emulator test tool against malicious profiles

1.6.4

Sat, 15 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Autorip

A stalled upload can no longer restart the service mid-rip
The main log no longer grows for the life of the container
A redirected webhook is no longer reported as delivered

Command line & desktop app

A freshly opened disc now shows the title you want, not the bottom of the list
Unticking a track under one title no longer leaves it ripping under another
A damaged-disc recovery can no longer write the wrong film under the right name
Decrypting an image over its own source file is now refused
A video-only title's checkbox no longer shows and toggles backwards
The key-database download no longer hangs forever on a slow mirror
A fresh install can now rip from a drive or ISO out of the box
The window no longer freezes while probing the drive at launch

Discs & decoding

Fixes a Blu-ray/UHD title whose sound ran on about half a minute past the picture
A multi-title-set DVD can no longer be decrypted under the wrong key
A disc with an all-zero language code no longer aborts track export
A power-cycle-recoverable drive wedge is no longer written off as permanent data loss
A rip cancelled seconds in no longer reports a healthy disc as seriously damaged

1.6.3

Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Command line & desktop app

Install with Homebrew on macOS and Linux (brew install freemkv/tap/freemkv)
Asking for forced subtitles in one language no longer ticks several others
The log can now be shown and hidden while a rip is running
Hiding the log no longer leaves a blank band across the window (macOS)
"Whole disc → ISO image" now works on a disc image
Preferred-language settings are now pick-lists instead of free text

1.6.2

Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Autorip

Set preferred audio, subtitle and forced-subtitle languages once instead of per disc

Command line & desktop app

Set preferred track languages once instead of on every disc

Discs & decoding

Fixes a stray moment of sound at the end of an HD-DVD title
Fixes a click at every chapter break on a DVD

1.6.1

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Command line & desktop app

Decrypt an existing disc image with iso://In.iso iso://Out.iso
Read an extracted VIDEO_TS or BDMV folder anywhere an image works, including drag-and-drop
Windows: the .zip now contains the desktop app, not the console tool

Discs & decoding

Fixes Blu-ray titles built from several clips that ran minutes long with drifting sound
Fixes a decrypted DVD image that could lose most of its title list
Fixes NTSC DVD chapter marks and durations that ran about 0.1% short

1.6.0

Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Command line & desktop app

freemkv for Mac — a native desktop app: open a disc or image, tick titles and tracks, press Rip
One freemkv binary is now both the command line and the desktop app
Pick audio/subtitle tracks by language (-a / -s)
True multi-pass damaged-disc recovery in the desktop app
Per-track-kind export in the desktop picker (video / audio / subtitle only)
Ripping now defaults to the main title only — add -t all for every title
Ctrl-C now stops the whole rip, and re-running resumes
A disc with no key now stops with one clear error instead of repeating it per title
stdio:// output is now pure stream data with no text mixed in
A UTF-8 BOM in gui-settings.json no longer wipes your settings
Key-service outages now report as their own error, not "no key for this disc"

Languages

The desktop app speaks 29 languages, with a live in-app switch

Discs & decoding

Correctly labels forced versus full-dialogue subtitle tracks
An undecryptable CSS DVD now errors instead of reporting success
A corrupt mkv:// input now errors instead of returning an empty result

1.5.2

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Command line

The unlock report now labels DVDs as "DVD" instead of "CSS".

Discs & decoding

TrueHD 7.1/Atmos audio is now corrected on AACS-encrypted Blu-ray and UHD discs, instead of falling back to a 5.1 channel count.
AACS 2.1 menu and extras titles that carry no forensic key now rip using the disc's base key instead of failing.
Multi-key AACS discs now decrypt each clip with its own key, fixing garbled secondary content.
CSS DVDs no longer produce garbled output; every read now uses the correct per-title key.
Scanning a CSS DVD is much faster — about 25 seconds down to about 6.
A disc that can't be decrypted now stops with an error instead of writing scrambled data or a truncated block out as a broken file.

1.5.1

Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

TrueHD audio was being silently dropped entirely (and could send some players into a runaway memory spiral); it is fixed. Titles ripped while this was broken need a re-rip.
HD DVD AACS keys are now found whatever directory and filename layout the studio used, not just the most common one.
HD DVD discs with more than one protected title now decrypt all of them instead of just the first.
A disc with marginal, barely-readable spots no longer "rips clean" while hiding corrupted data; those spots are now retried and either recover or are reported as an honest gap.

1.5.0

Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Command line

New MP4 output — rip straight to a play-everywhere MP4 with no external transcoder. It's a compatibility export: tracks MP4 can't hold (TrueHD, LPCM, bitmap subtitles) are listed and excluded rather than silently dropped.
MP4 can now also be used as a source, for a frame-exact round trip into any other format.
Five new single-part exports: video-only, audio-only, and subtitle-only files, a chapter-markers sidecar, and a full title-structure JSON.

Discs & decoding

Forced subtitles can now be detected from the subtitle content itself, so discs that don't flag them are handled correctly too.
Corrupt audio frames are now dropped cleanly instead of muxed as glitches, across every audio format, while keeping picture and sound in sync.
TrueHD: brief bursts of stream damage no longer throw away a whole track or shift the audio that follows.
Uncommon free-format MP2/MP3 audio is no longer rejected.

1.4.5

Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

AACS 2.1 forensic discs now produce a clean stream, instead of visible playback glitches and dropped frames around each forensic segment.
A decryption key written with an uppercase prefix is no longer silently ignored.

Security

Decryption keys can no longer end up in a log or crash message.

1.4.4

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

Online key lookups were sometimes skipped before ever reaching the key service; they now run reliably.

1.4.3

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

The online key service can now return a full forensic key set as well as a single key.

1.4.2

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

Fixed a bug where content that decrypted fine but didn't parse as clean video could blank out good picture and repeatedly re-query the key server for a key it already had.

1.4.1

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

A single bad packet no longer causes a whole block of good video to be discarded.
A track is now flagged 3D only when that information is actually present on the disc.

1.4.0

Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

Blu-ray 3D (MVC) support — a 3D disc rips to a single MKV that preserves both eyes, with no transcoding or side-by-side conversion. The 2D view is byte-identical to a standard 2D rip.

1.3.2

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

Better recognition of AACS 2.1 forensic-variant discs, ahead of full decryption support.

1.3.1

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

HD-DVD titles now use the disc's own playlist for clip order, duration, name, and chapters instead of guessing from filenames, with the old guess kept as a fallback.

Project

Relicensed to the MIT License from 1.3.1 onward (releases through 1.3.0 remain AGPL-3.0).

1.3.0

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

AACS 2.1 (FMTS) discs are now recognized as their own format and mostly rip, with only the not-yet-supported forensic segments skipped.
Initial HD-DVD support — HD-DVD is detected as its own format and its video and audio rip through the pipeline. Title composition is still a best guess, so a disc that authors two features under one naming scheme may show as a single title.
Older program-stream video (H.264, VC-1, HEVC on HD-DVD and older discs) now gets correct per-frame timestamps.
The main feature is now picked by physical size, so a disc that splits its feature across many small clips is no longer passed over for a shorter composite.
More reliable track-label detection across differing disc authoring, with a last-resort fallback that reads menu-artwork languages.

Security

Disc metadata (title, labels) is now cleaned before it's printed, so a malicious disc can't inject terminal control sequences.

1.2.2

Sat, 04 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

AACS 2.1 Media Key Variant support now matches real variant discs.
Fixed AACS device-key fallback that had been silently broken.
Resolving the AACS processing key on UHD discs is roughly 15× faster — about 37 seconds down to about 2.4.

1.2.1

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discs & decoding

DVD DTS audio no longer muxes with timestamps that some strict players rejected.

1.2.0

Wed, 01 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Command line

Progress now includes a per-range breakdown of damage — chapter, movie-time offset, and at-risk time.
A rip now reports which unlock mechanisms (firmware, AACS, CSS) actually ran.

Discs & decoding

Damaged-disc recovery now tries a wider set of techniques, re-ranked per disc by what's actually working.
Added an optional recovery mode for discs with heavily hardened damage.
A new "fast capture" pass grabs every readable block first, before falling back to slower per-sector recovery.
A block that genuinely can't be decrypted is now concealed cleanly so the file still plays, instead of writing broken data.
Recovery can no longer hang forever on a wedged drive.
Every DVD now rips at full speed — a drive speed-up had been skipped for DVDs.
DVD DTS/LPCM tracks that weren't the disc's first audio no longer come out silent.
Real video is no longer dropped at the end of an encrypted fragment.
Audio no longer corrupts across a stream discontinuity.
Online key lookups for disc images now send the required data, instead of every request being rejected.
Discs using an older AACS version now read their keys correctly.
Fixed a possible crash on a corrupt disc.

1.1.0

Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Command line

Every user-facing error now shows an error code, with a new Error Codes reference page listing the cause and next steps for each, in all supported languages.
Windows-reserved filenames on a disc are now safely renamed on extraction instead of aborting.

Discs & decoding

Every decrypted unit is now verified before it's accepted, catching a class of silent bad read.
Stricter AACS acceptance, so a wrong key can't coincidentally pass and quietly corrupt output.
DVD rips now start on the actual movie instead of the disc's menu screens.
Multi-part files in folder extraction no longer have later parts written as empty holes.
Fixed a rare false frame-split in DTS-HD Master Audio.
Fixed TrueHD timestamps stepping backward under certain source timing.
Fixed several container-metadata issues (color info, subtitle wipe, sidecar alignment).

Security

Fixed a misread flag that could defeat a safety check meant to refuse decrypting encrypted-bus content with no bus key.

1.0.0

Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

First stable release.

A command-line tool that rips optical discs to MKV.
Decrypts DVDs (CSS — including keyless recovery, with no key database needed), Blu-ray, and UHD (AACS 1.0/2.0).
Keys are resolved from a local key database and verified against real disc content before use.
Multipass recovery reads through bad sectors on scratched or damaged discs, and can resume after an interruption.
MKV output from a fast threaded pipeline, with support for HEVC, H.264, VC-1, MPEG-2, TrueHD, DTS(-HD), and PGS subtitles.
Can also write a decrypted file tree or a whole-disc ISO image.
Works across Windows, macOS, and Linux.