Bluray to avi?

ash_scotland88 · 30 Sep 2011 at 15:07

I know this is asked a billion times and there's a millions thread, but what is the simplest way?

Basically I want to copy some films I have and then down-grade them to a quality to play on my HP touchpad. What would be the best way to go about this?

kidloco · 30 Sep 2011 at 15:25

The main problem you have is getting past the copy protection on the disc. The easiest solution that does it all DVDfab Blu Ray Ripper but it isnt free.

There are other solutions which involve suing a few free programs but they are a bit more complicated.

Download the free demo of DVD fab, give it a play for a month and if you like it, buy it.

siege2 · 30 Sep 2011 at 15:36

Try http://www.videohelp.com/ and I use anydvd to rip my personal movie collection to iso's for playing back on my AC Ryan media player, it removes copy protection on the fly . Don't convert anything to avi.
Kenneth

ash_scotland88 · 30 Sep 2011 at 15:49

Not sure if the touchpad can play iso's, hence saying avi's (will use an other recomended format though) Also was planning to decrease quality to the actual resolution of the screen.

I've had anydvd before, sometime I have some luck with it, other times I don't. But I notice between that and winDVD it likes to freeze up my system for a bit.

Will look into dvdfab, just hope I don't end up having to sue other programmes.

I've converted dvd's before but wasn't very good and compressing them! Each video was around 4-5GB! But eventually the free trial ran out, but I no longer had the need at the time to copy any - this was for my netbook.

Django x2 · 30 Sep 2011 at 16:04

So, my method for the TP:

Use AnyDVDHD trial (cheap to buy too). This bypasses all disc protection currently known to man

Rip BD using makeMKV or handbrake (using the iPAD preset).

Simples

ash_scotland88 · 30 Sep 2011 at 16:06

cheers, lucero, will give it all a go.

ash_scotland88 · 30 Sep 2011 at 17:32

Lucero, unsure how the best way to use handbrake?
I just used the BR as the source file, selected ipad preset (but changed to MKV) and encoded it. Going to take 1h30mins, is this all right?

siege2 · 30 Sep 2011 at 17:35

Lucero said:
So, my method for the TP:

Use AnyDVDHD trial (cheap to buy too). This bypasses all disc protection currently known to man

Rip BD using makeMKV or handbrake (using the iPAD preset).

Simples

+1

although full version for anydvdhd, I have had for a number off years and has served me well :-)

Kenneth

siege2 · 30 Sep 2011 at 17:41

ash_scotland88 said:
Lucero, unsure how the best way to use handbrake?
I just used the BR as the source file, selected ipad preset (but changed to MKV) and encoded it. Going to take 1h30mins, is this all right?

just did handbrake test on a 1 hour and 30 minute AVI movie and states 18 minutes after pressing start although mkv would be higher resolution etc and maybe that time is correct.

Kenneth

ash_scotland88 · 30 Sep 2011 at 17:57

siege2 said:
just did handbrake test on a 1 hour and 30 minute AVI movie and states 18 minutes after pressing start although mkv would be higher resolution etc and maybe that time is correct.

Kenneth

Is that taking encoding it from AVI?

I'll see how it goes.
Also using DVDfab Passkey instead of anyDVD HD

blasted thing, didnt realise it reset itself to m4v! =[

siege2 · 30 Sep 2011 at 18:59

ash_scotland88 said:
Is that taking encoding it from AVI?

I'll see how it goes.
Also using DVDfab Passkey instead of anyDVD HD

blasted thing, didnt realise it reset itself to m4v! =[

yes its from a AVI.
Kenneth

Azuse05 · 30 Sep 2011 at 21:12

siege2 said:
just did handbrake test on a 1 hour and 30 minute AVI movie and states 18 minutes after pressing start although mkv would be higher resolution etc and maybe that time is correct.

Kenneth

Let it run for 5 min, once you get past the start the average fps will give a more accurate readout.

Also consider x64, it's 10-15% faster, although the windows gui is still beta (nightly builds). VidCoder has a functioning x64 build, and it's basically handbreak with different gui (not as good imo) however it has all the presents etc. Personally I prefer the original HandBreak, but if you're planning on doing hours of encoding 10-15% can quickly turn into hours saved.

siege2 · 30 Sep 2011 at 21:35

logged 21:26 to 21:33 got results off 33.80% FPS 139.2 avg FPS 106.8 remaining time is 13.42 minutes roughly is just over 20 minutes.

Kenneth

PS I7 920 CPU with 6gb Memory running windows 7.

Django x2 · 30 Sep 2011 at 21:57

Hi, sorry missed out on giving info. Handbrake you'd want the iPad preset with some tweaks
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=19971595&postcount=1425

neil_g · 30 Sep 2011 at 22:24

With makemkv you don't need anydvdhd running, it actually tells you to turn it off in fact.

chaosophy · 1 Oct 2011 at 11:30

No idea what this is like but looks like it is still available from yesterdays GotD

ash_scotland88 · 1 Oct 2011 at 12:10

Cheers guys, maybe because I am running it from a disk, but it's taking the same amount of time as the movie itself.

Still messing about with things. Will give your touchpad settings a go Lucero.

Even converting from mkv to mp4 (don't ask, had an idiot moment yesterday) it's still 1h40mins for an 1h26min film. Running it on the system in my sig. Thought things would be faster? And thought maybe files sizes would end up smaller than 2.5GB...

Django x2 · 1 Oct 2011 at 12:56

No, that seems about right. Depending on your rig, sometimes it will encode in realtime (or everso slightly faster).

ash_scotland88 · 1 Oct 2011 at 13:14

Even for end of file sizes?
How do the films aquired from online manage 600-800mb? Is it just a case of a lower quality and the file type?

Django x2 · 1 Oct 2011 at 15:03

yep, exactly that. Here's a rough guide to file sizes you should expect retaining quality:

SD TV Episode (45mins long): 380mb
HD TV Episode (45 mins long): 1Gb
DVD Movie Rip (1:50 long): 700mb to 1.5Gb (depending on settings, compression, target device, etc).
BD Movie Rip (1:50 long): 2Gb to 20Gb (depending on settings, compression, target device, etc).

I ripped POTC: Stranger Tides and Bridesmaids from already "mkv" container rips. I just ran them through HB to put them on an iPad setting with the tweaks posted above. Came in around 2.1Gb and 1.55Gb respectively. The quality of them on the TP was amazing. I also had some Community episodes (HD) these are around 600mb in size but are only 25mins long