bluRay converting software

[buick]

I have been ripping my collection down with anydvd hd to iso and playing with my wdtv player and all is working fine but eating up alot of hd space. I think that I would be very happy to convert to 720p on the lower action rip, is there a all in one software that would take my ripped anydvd file and convert? I would like to keep if possible the truehd (dont have a reciever yet but down the road) and 5.1 digital audio. I did try BD Rebulder and after many hours the audio was out of sync
Thanks for any help with guides or the right path to go.

[Baldrick]

Moving you to our blu-ray ripping and converting section.


Converting/Shrinking will take a long time whatever app you use. I haven't had any sync issues with bdrebuilder.

[mrswla]

Your computer is really too out of date for blu-ray. That might be why you are having sync issues. bdrb is a great program for "shrinking" bds and also for converting to 720p and/or even dvd.

[buick]

Thanks for moving I was in the wrong area
My system is a Amd Phenom 9750 Quad-Core processor
Is it important to not be doing anything else on the computor while converting?
In searching the internet I see programs like Odin blu-ray ripper,X-oom blu ray ripper and many others but as mentioned before would like to keep true audio intact for future. I play everything with my WDTV system at this time and I dont think it will support true hd but hope other devices will come out later that does. I also looked for a settings page with DB Rebuilder on best way to set but didnt have much luck (is there a guide) Thanks again

[wulf109]

I would just second what others have said,BDrebuilder is the best available program to compress BlueRay,and it's free. I would avoid any payware you find on the net,there all ripoffs,usually repackaged freeware. You should try BDrebuilder's HighSpeed BD25 option,it cuts encode times in half.

[fritzi93]

Look a little more closely on the BDRB page. The link to the first page of the author's site (bug report thread at Doom9) explains exactly which versions of helper apps to install and how to set it up and check the configuration. On the BDRB page you'll also find links to available guides.

The X264 encoder is optimized for multiple processors, but that's less true for the helper apps. I should think that with 4 cores, you're not going to see anything near 100% cpu usage, but easy enough to find out for yourself with Task Manager. Nevertheless, X264 will definitely give the cpu a workout.

The programs you mentioned are junk.

If you're concerned about hard drive space, I'd question your wisdom in retaining HD audio. AC3 5.1 at 640 kbps is going to be hard to distinguish from the original unless you have a high-end setup and golden ears. As to re-encoding to 720p, well, there are plenty of Blu-Ray transfers that aren't so great for one reason or another. To give an example, the first release of Predator wasn't so hot, and the re-release was a disappointment. A 720p encode looks about as good as 1080p. But unless you habitually encode to BD5, there's little reason to go with 720p.

And I too have never had sync problems with BDRB, so that's very odd.

Good luck.

[buick]

Thanks for the help and have been playing with a bit more and feel at this time with HD space so resonable at this time may just stay the way Im doing it. I really only do my most favorite disk and to buy another drive as needed might be the best way to go at this time
thanks again.