Blue-ray re-encoding, how do you do it?

[herbapou]

I am building a “movie on demand” database to be use with my new MediaPC plug into my hometheater. Since I have started to buy BR’s (some titles are starting to be cheap and pre-viewed BR’s are now on sale at renting video stores) I had to come up with a way to rip and re-encode BR’s

I am interested in learning how others do it.


Useful tool : MediaInfo (allow to inspect video/audio files)
Codec: Un-install all your codecs and use K-Lite Codec Pack

Option 1 : no DTS audio or HD audio tracks:
1- AnyDVD HD : rip the BR to ISO image. DO NOT MOUNT THE IMAGE.
2- MakeMKV : Open the ISO file directly to convert the ISO to a mkv file. (no re-encoding)
3- Handbrake : re-encode mkv to mkv. Note: Handbrake will NOT read DTS audio tracks. If you are re-encoding without cropping make sure to set 1920x1072 resolution. If not, handbrake will reencode at a higher resolution to match a resolution you can divide by 16.

If BR contains DTS or HD audio:
1- AnyDVD HD : rip the BR to hard drive (Do NOT make an ISO)
2- Use Xvid4PSP to re-encode the main movie .M2TS file into an MKV. Use x264 4450MB turbo video encoding. Select AC3 448k in audio encoding to get rid of the DTS or HD audio tracks.
Note: This tool will only use 1 audio track, but there is a way to add more, see below

Adding more audio tracks
1- tsMuxerGUI : open the main movie .M2TS (from the rip on your HD) and demux additionnal audio tracks.
2- mkvmergeGUI : open the re-encode .mkv you made with Xvid4PsP and open the audio track you demux with txMuxerGUI and rebuilt a new MKV with the new audio track.

Re-encoding audio tracks to 448k AC3:
Download eac3to
The command line is: eac3to <inputfile.???> <outputfile.AC3> -448

Example:
eac3to D:\TRUEHD.AC3 D:\ENG448.ac3 -448
eac3to D:\DTSHD.DTS D:\ENG448.ac3 -448

[mshilly]

I stream to my PS3 so h.264 video and ac3 audio in a .m2ts file is all I need:

1) DumpHD (free) to decrypt
2) tsMuxer (free) to remux h.264 video and 6ch ac3 audio track

if the video is vc1 encoded I have to de-mux with tsmuxer and re-encode with autox264 (free) before muxing the video with the audio.

[FireWire2]

Wow! you'll need lots of HDD. Here is what I do/did.
Use a NAS (MNAS-44)
and TWO HD players - LimHD310S and EP6000B, all network together
Use my PC to rip a BR then watch it via those TWO HD players (streaming).

If i like to title then I woud demux the Audio via TsMuxER, Encode with meGUI to the size that will fit a DVD-R or DL-DVD-R
I remuxe the audio back after i done with the encode

Now I have the MKV or TS file that can be save in DVD-R or DL-DVD-R

I also have USB-DVD-ROMs which connect to those HD player so I can play the burned DVD

BTW depend where you buy the HD player, some reseller bundle with encode software (that is what I got)

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[redwudz]

I just use AnyDVD>Ripbot>MKV format. Occasionally I have to rip the BD to my hard drive, then use tsMuxeR to get the right tracks before I feed it to RipBot. I end up with a ~8.5GB file that plays perfectly over my LAN to my video projector.

[Baldrick]

I use different methods,
easiest
MakeMKV -> MKV - > Handbrake to shrink
if that wont work
ANyDVD -> Ripbot -> MKV
or
TsMuxer -> ts -> Ripbot -> Mkv

[FireWire2]

Baldrick and redwudz

What about the audio? can you keep the original audio track?

TIA
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[Baldrick]

Yep.

[redwudz]

DTS six channel@1536Kbps. But I only play back using my computer system, no standalone Blu-Ray player.