How to separate episodes from Blu-Ray image file

[siratfus]

Man, I've been away from this hobby for a while now. I think I remember I once knew how to do this but not anymore...

If I have a bluray tv series in one big IMAGE file, and I want to separate the episodes into mp4 or Mkv files in order to Plex to stream it. What do I do? How do I first break down the image file. I recall something about mounting the image first, then ripping it again. Please point me to the correct starting gate. LOL! Thank you for your time.

[Kerry56]

Mount the image file in a virtual drive. Slysoft's Virtual CloneDrive is free to use. Or if you are using Windows 8/8.1, it can mount an ISO without any other software necessary.

Then use MakeMKV to open the movie. It should give you a list of titles. Remove check marks from all but one and rip to an MKV file. Repeat for the others. Output will not be compressed.

[siratfus]

Mount the image file in a virtual drive. Slysoft's Virtual CloneDrive is free to use. Or if you are using Windows 8/8.1, it can mount an ISO without any other software necessary.

Then use MakeMKV to open the movie. It should give you a list of titles. Remove check marks from all but one and rip to an MKV file. Repeat for the others. Output will not be compressed.

Thank you. I got started. So even though it's not compressing, does it still take awhile? I was imagining it would zip through without compression, but I'm on the first episode rip and it's taking quite a while. About 6 minutes elapse, says about 29 minutes remaining for a 1.8 gig episode. Does that sound right for a i5 computer?

[siratfus]

BTW, the remaining time will fluctuate, now it keeps increasing. 30 minutes remaining while 20+ have elapsed. Sound normal?

[Kerry56]

No, something is off. I just ripped one title from a Blu-ray movie that contains four titles. It took less than a minute to create a 4.3gb MKV file. I'm using an i5, 3570k cpu in my computer.

My Blu-ray was not an ISO however, just files on the hard drive.

[siratfus]

No, something is off. I just ripped one title from a Blu-ray movie that contains four titles. It took less than a minute to create a 4.3gb MKV file. I'm using an i5, 3570k cpu in my computer.

My Blu-ray was not an ISO however, just files on the hard drive.

I think maybe it's because I'm going from external to external? The source is an external hard drive, and the destination output is also external.

[Kerry56]

Yes, that could be the problem. Did it ever complete the task?

[siratfus]

Yes it did, but took over an hour. I'm a bozo! The source hard drive was connected to a usb port of a laptop cooling fan pad. LOL! You see this cooling fan has a usb out that connects to my macbook, but the cooling fan itself also has a usb port you can use, old school usb speed. So I plugged the external source to my macbook and saved to internal hard drive, it too 4 and half minutes. If I save it to another external attached to mac, it will take about 6 and half. Much better than over an hour. LOL! Thanks for your help!