MKV compared to Blu Ray

dazzerd · 30 Sep 2010 at 11:22

Well tried DVD fab and it is fab, too bad it is very expensive.

Ripped "2001" as a test last night at 1080p into h264 (mp4) with fixed bitrate of about 6000kps. File size was about 6gb and took about 45 minutes very impressed.

fozzybear · 30 Sep 2010 at 16:08

Just tried DVDFab with Avatar blu ray.

Although it took only 30 minute, the MKV file turned out to be 37GB from an initial 46GB. Not really worth it really.

Also had problems with crashing and it also seemed to give my mobile broadband a few problems. It's now uninstalled. I already have Handbrake and RipBot264 installed.

I also have the problem with no subtitles on Avatar and District 9 MKV's. I presumed they were 'burnt in' to the picture already.

dazzerd · 30 Sep 2010 at 18:29

huh 37gb from 46gb?

I guess you must have not adjusted the settings?

Cycrow · 30 Sep 2010 at 19:16

smogsy said:
nice whats the time taken?

think it was about an hour for a 1080p 2 pass rip with DTS audio, filesize was about 10gb

Rensin · 1 Oct 2010 at 22:43

Can someone help, i am a bit confused with using ripbot.

I have ripped my blu ray to Hard drive then select the file i want to load into ripbot (which is around 26GB)

Changed the mode so it does 2 pass and left everything else at default apart from using the original DTS audio. 4 and a half ours later it was complete but i have no file :mad:

and have no drive space missing so guess i done something wrong.

Any tips?

fozzybear · 1 Oct 2010 at 23:25

Rensin said:
Can someone help, i am a bit confused with using ripbot.

I have ripped my blu ray to Hard drive then select the file i want to load into ripbot (which is around 26GB)

Changed the mode so it does 2 pass and left everything else at default apart from using the original DTS audio. 4 and a half ours later it was complete but i have no file and have no drive space missing so guess i done something wrong.

Any tips?

In RipBot, what do you have as your 'output' setting? ie. Where your ripped file is being saved.

Rensin · 1 Oct 2010 at 23:46

I set the output folder to G:\Video\New folder .... which is empty.

fozzybear · 1 Oct 2010 at 23:50

Rensin said:
I set the output folder to G:\Video\New folder .... which is empty.

Have you installed all the other programs needed? (AviSynth, ffdshow, Haali)

What are you saving it as? MKV, MP4 or something else?

Rensin · 2 Oct 2010 at 00:01

fozzybear said:
Have you installed all the other programs needed? (AviSynth, ffdshow, Haali)

What are you saving it as? MKV, MP4 or something else?

yes m8, had to update a couple of them, saving them as mkv files.

Gonna give another rip a try tomoz.

fozzybear · 2 Oct 2010 at 00:13

Rensin said:
yes m8, had to update a couple of them, saving them as mkv files.

Gonna give another rip a try tomoz.

I don't know then. :confused:

Sorry mate.

Rensin · 2 Oct 2010 at 16:35

fozzybear said:
I don't know then.

Sorry mate.

thanks m8,

must have being the rip as tried avatar and worked, file was around 3gb afterwards but could not keep the original audio (dts).

Is there a option to keep the original audio?

sorry for being dumb used to makemkv doing everything :rolleyes:

Snow-Munki · 11 Oct 2010 at 10:17

bledd. said:
Does anyone know how to do things like Avatar and District 9 where you would only need subs for the alien sections? All I seem to be able to do is ALL subs or no subs

Same question really but tried to do Mission Impossible III and there are a few bits that needed subtitles.

mrk · 11 Oct 2010 at 10:21

Yes, you'd need to manually edit the subtitles file editing out all sections of English dialogue only leaving the subtitles for the non English parts then mkvmerge the subtitle back into the mkv file.

The whole process should take minutes, the non English dialogue parts you'll know the timecodes for them anyway so it's just a case of scrolling and deleting the sections of timecode that are not needed.

mkvmerge takes a few mins to bond the subs to the mkv.

Django x2 · 11 Oct 2010 at 11:24

DVDFab is paid for though right? RipBot is free?

I used to think MakeMKV was the shizz, but its actually very poor and can cause stutter on audio playback.

Deluxe1 · 16 Oct 2010 at 01:36

Antihero said:
Using DVDfab 8 I can rip a Bluray to MKV in about 30 minutes using single pass.

I rip them to 1280x720 with a constant bitrate of 5000Kbps and remove the HD audio which usually results in a filesize of between 4.5 - 5.0G.

They are stored on my HTPC and output to a 42" Panny plasma and look fantastic.

Ive tried dvdfab tonight to rip 30 days of night and i cant seem to beable to enter a fixed bitrate or to choose 1280x720?

lord filbuster · 16 Oct 2010 at 02:37

Snow-Munki said:
Same question really but tried to do Mission Impossible III and there are a few bits that needed subtitles.

If you use a program called suprip to make a .srt file, you can choose to only save forced subtitles, not the whole lot.

dazzerd · 16 Oct 2010 at 15:12

Deluxe1 said:
Ive tried dvdfab tonight to rip 30 days of night and i cant seem to beable to enter a fixed bitrate or to choose 1280x720?

It does this if you use some of the default modes, you can force it in by using i player 1080p or generic h264.mp4 or mkv and you should have the option.