Soon... Gonna start ripping my bluray collection. Pointers?

valve90210 · 20 Mar 2017 at 10:11

Any suggestions for a good Blu-ray drive for doing this? or are they all much of a muchness?

ThePainBarrier · 20 Mar 2017 at 12:11

valve90210 said:
Any suggestions for a good Blu-ray drive for doing this? or are they all much of a muchness?

I bought a LG UH12NS30 last week (recommended in another thread on here) as I wanted to stick my collection on my media server.

Worked flawlessly so far. Via MakeMkv, read the Indiana Jones Blu-ray set I bought at the same time.
Just another 100 odd to go...

eyetrip · 21 Mar 2017 at 22:45

Well, I got pioneer drive and slowly backing up my disks. Some go quickly, but one tonight took over an hour. Some disks don't play nice, but I am not bothered about keeping a few on display.

Glad to hear kodi supports atmos, though I may still keep the atmos discs on the special shelf for now, along with uhd blue rays.

Speaking of uhd blu ray... It was fairly easy to get them for OK prices not long ago, but lately all seem around £25.

Also, it seems they are a bit slow getting titles available. My collection is miniscule

FrankJH · 22 Mar 2017 at 12:07

Flibster said:
And ripping a bluray doesn't allow the same thing? If anything you could stream the ripped copy to multiple devices simultaneously.

Im not sure you can stream the same file simultaneously - surely the file is being "read" once and therefore cant be started again by another device until the 1st is finished?

Never tried it to be honest, and games have always been considered "different" than cd's or dvd's rightly or wrongly but esp by those companies who use proprietry cartridges of some kind

It would probably still be considered "personal" use for anyone under 16/18

(and yes servers of a less than legal nature are capable, but thats one of the many reasons they arent legal)

eyetrip said:
Speaking of uhd blu ray... It was fairly easy to get them for OK prices not long ago, but lately all seem around £25.

Tesco's seem to sell theirs at £20 each, but they have a tiny library it seems

andicole0 · 23 Mar 2017 at 11:23

MakeMKV seems to be saying version is too old, having taken the latest Beta yesterday. Suggestion is to change my PC date! Will try DVDFab instead.
Andi.

C.R.A.Z.Y · 25 Mar 2017 at 00:20

MakeMKV -----> MeGUI (With the following settings, slow encode but epic quality)

I don't bother encoding the audio stream so set MeGUI to 'Never' encode that part of the stream, prefer to keep the studio DTS stream as it's only 1-2Gb anyway.

I set the output MKV to about 21-22Gb, this allows space for when I author it in TSMuxerGUI ready to burn to BD-R.

MakeMKV 1.9.4 portable works great for me, also MKV ToolNix is very handy, you can crop the end credits off which on some films can be as much as a Gb or 2!!

champ222 · 27 Mar 2017 at 15:41

another good thing about makemkv is you can rip multiple discs at once if you have multiple drives. you can open multiple instances of the software, and there is a setting in the software that ties each instance to a particular drive. so if you have lot of discs to do, buy a bunch of used Blu-ray drives and fill up your case. blast through the lot and sell the drives on again. Very useful feature.

ChrisD. · 27 Mar 2017 at 15:43

I use MakeMKV on my Mac with a LG BD drive to rip my movies. I deselect extra features and languages so only have English left. Works like a charm.

thezappa · 1 Apr 2017 at 12:49

Don't suppose anyone knows if there is somewhere one could download blu-ray discs with extras is there like iTunes for example but 1080p and with extras? I do have blu-rays but would consider having only digital copies without buying the disc.

vila · 1 Apr 2017 at 16:36

The only service offering true blue ray quality (or better in the case of their 4k options) is Kalediscape www.kaleidescape.com

Titles cost about £16 for the digital HD versions which i think is reasonable but unfortunately you have to use their hardware which is eyewateringly expensive.

Which is why the vast majority of people that care about quality are either ripping their blu rays or just sticking with discs.

thezappa · 1 Apr 2017 at 16:57

vila said:
The only service offering true blue ray quality (or better in the case of their 4k options) is Kalediscape www.kaleidescape.com

Titles cost about £16 for the digital HD versions which i think is reasonable but unfortunately you have to use their hardware which is eyewateringly expensive.

Which is why the vast majority of people that care about quality are either ripping their blu rays or just sticking with discs.

Jesus, you weren't joking. Even if you had no knowledge of these things you would consider making your own media server and buying BD to rip.

Entai · 1 Apr 2017 at 17:18

FrankJH said:
Thats actually not the case, you can use it personally (might be more recent than your article in 2014)on any format you choose as long as its for personal use

You also have to think about actual practicalities....ie as long as you are only doing it for personal use , how is anyone who cares otherwise ever going to find out? Its impossible for anyone to find out unless you start trying to make money out of it / playing it publicly etc etc
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I suppose if they (the makers of whatever copyrighted content has been copied) want to start prosecuting people for copying their protected data, they could just read forums like this and see who is saying they have lots of ripped content and get the ISP to reveal names etc.

A bit like the several people who have posted film on You tube of themselves speeding in their cars or on their motorbikes, then the police turning up on their doorsteps and arresting them.

Copying music films dvds blu rays or any copyrighted material, even copying purely for personal use, is illegal no if's and's or but's.

Breaking copy protection is illegal no if's and's or but's, you are just taking the gamble no one will decide to track you down.