Blu-Ray Ripping Advice?

Buchanan0204

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Morning,

I was wondering if anyone has any experience of ripping Blu-Ray to HDD. What software do you use, is it in conjuction with any 3rd party codecs?

How long does it usually take to rip an average film. I realise this is dependant upon hardware but I am just looking for a ballpark figure.

Cheers.
 
MakeMKV is all you need. Most software and hardware is compatible with the .MKV container, it just depends on the codecs used for the audio & video within. For example, most hardware Blu-Ray players with MKV support won't decode TrueHD or DTS-HD sound from an MKV and most aren't compatible with subtitles. Your best bet is to use MakeMKV to rip to a large (minimum 1tb) external hard drive in conjunction with a media streamer (A.CRyan! WDTV Live etc.) Software players like VLC, MPC-HC & Zoom Player are good for MKV playback. a 1:1 MKV rip (ie: the same quality as the Blu-Ray) of a Blu-Ray film is typically 20-30GB :). You can re-encode the audio and video to save hard drive space. A typical 720P and AC3 re-encode normally weighs in at <10GB.
 
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Meatball said:
MakeMKV is all you need. Most software and hardware is compatible with the .MKV container, it just depends on the codecs used for the audio & video within. For example, most hardware Blu-Ray players with MKV support won't decode TrueHD or DTS-HD sound from an MKV and most aren't compatible with subtitles. Your best bet is to use MakeMKV to rip to a large (minimum 1tb) external hard drive in conjunction with a media streamer (A.CRyan! WDTV Live etc.) Software players like VLC, MPC-HC & Zoom Player are good for MKV playback. a 1:1 MKV rip (ie: the same quality as the Blu-Ray) of a Blu-Ray film is typically 20-30GB :). You can re-encode the audio and video to save hard drive space. A typical 720P and AC3 re-encode normally weighs in at <10GB.
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Thank's very much for that. Very informative. What sort of time frame are we talking?
 
Buchanan0204 said:
Thank's very much for that. Very informative. What sort of time frame are we talking?
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A direct rip using MakeMKV is usually 40-60minutes. If you decide to re-encode to save space/improve compatibility it can take hours :eek:. Personally I don't re-encode. Hard drive space is so cheap these days and I like knowing the video and audio are the same quality if I was watching the Blu-Ray :).

If you're looking at streaming the videos around the house or watching them via a TV I would definitely recommend investing in a small media player such as the A.C Ryan or WDTV. They support practically every video and audio format you could imagine. You can plug an external hard drive into them or use a NAS (Network Attached Storage) to store & stream your movies to your desired media player. You can go the extra mile and use plug ins to download the METADATA (Artwork, director, actors, movie description etc) for your movies such as YAMJ. Here is YAMJ on a WDTV:
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A good source for high-quality movie artwork is Get Video Artwork :). Save the image filename as "folder" and place it within the same folder as the MKV. Makes your folders look pretty in explorer :D
 
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Brilliant. I will order up myself a BD-ROM drive. I've always thought about going down the Media stramer route, but it's never bothered me that much. I'm sort of a watch a movie once type of person, however it's handy for other people who may come over, family, friends etc.

Thank's again... Great help :)
 
Handbrake has just released an updated version within the last couple of week, it looks like you can rip bluray discs, I've not tried it though as I don't have any blurays.
 
most of the time is spent reading from the optical drive. im ripping my blurays with anydvd and using MakeMKV to generate the mkv on a different HDD - it's taking an average of 7-8 minutes per film to convert from iso to mkv so the rest of that 40-60 minutes that Meatball mentioned is actually waiting on the optical drive to read the disc. So, it stands to reason the faster your optical drive, the quicker the conversion will be :)
 
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Can I jump in here. I ripped a 4.3Gb DVD and re-coded it to Mpeg4. The converted file is 12.7gb. Am I wasting my time re-coding, space isn't really an issue but am I likely to see any rise in quality with the larger file on a 1080i TV.

I havn't transferd to media player yet to test it myself - just wondered what you think.

I'm still experimenting with ripping and converting. I copied a Blu-Ray to Blu-ray recordable and it played back very stuttery. I burned it again as NTSC and it made a perfect copy.

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