Bluray Types

[TooEarly]

I've searched this question all over the Internet. I had no definite answers. My question is as follows:

I want to know the difference between BRRip and BDRip, how do those two differ?

Then I want to know the different between BRRips/BDRips and a regular Bluray?

Also, can BRRips and BDRips be considered as "true hd" rips?

I have a ton of Blu-ray discs and I need to back them up since they are scratched so easily. Should I do it in a BRRip format, BDRip format, or no encoding at all?

Thanks a lot!

[jman98]

Welcome to the forums.

I've searched this question all over the Internet. I had no definite answers. My question is as follows:

I want to know the difference between BRRip and BDRip, how do those two differ?

There is no difference. The morons who designed the format decided that it just made too much sense to abbreviate BluRay as BR because everybody would understand it without explanation. It was just so much better to add an invisible word "Disc" to the term BluRay so it could abbreviated as BD (Blu-ray Disc) and NOBODY in the general public would have any idea what it meant. Sadly I am not kidding.

Then I want to know the different between BRRips/BDRips and a regular Bluray?

Ripping means you copied something from a disc (ie. CD or DVD or BluRay or HD DVD) to your hard drive using some kind of specialized extraction program. That is it. Recording TV shows to a PC is NOT ripping them. Recording VHS tapes in any way is NOT ripping them. If you tell us in the future that you "ripped a show from TV" or you "ripped a VHS tape to your PC" or stupid crap like that, we are going to start insulting your intelligence. You have been warned. So a ripped copy is one that has been copied off a BluRay disc to a computer and a "regular Bluray" is the disc itself. The ripped copy will be decrypted and the disc version will still contain BluRay encryption.

Also, can BRRips and BDRips be considered as "true hd" rips?

Since the definition of "rip" in no way includes any kind of processing or changing to other formats, the answer is "yes".

I have a ton of Blu-ray discs and I need to back them up since they are scratched so easily. Should I do it in a BRRip format, BDRip format, or no encoding at all?

Thanks a lot!

There is no difference between what you call "BRrip" and "BDrip". A BluRay rip is a BluRay rip, whatever you call it. Whether you need to encode or not depends on whether you wish to save the rips in the EXACT same version as on the disc or whether you want to re-encode (at a potential quality loss) to save space.

Note that there are no free BluRay rippers and it's a long story as to why. If you want to know, read my post in this thread:
https://forum.videohelp.com/topic370285.html
You will have to buy either AnyDVD HD or DVDFab HD Decrypter to rip your BluRay discs.

[Supreme2k]

Just rip your own discs and you'll be fine.

BRRip and BDRip on files are usually terms used for illegally downloaded rips.

Putting "rip" in the title is redundant, since you have to rip it to put it on your HDD anyway.