How to backup and convert Blu-ray to MP4 HD or MKV HD

[flyboy183]

Can someone please help. I am running Windows Vista 64 and following the steps in this guide. When I run Ripbot264 and add a new job, I select the .mts file, when it is finished analyzing the stream, it launches Windows Media Player Classic and it just sits there. There is no error message, it just says "Opening..." and sits there. I've let it sit overnight and still nothing. I've tried using TS Muxer and creating a .ts file first and pretty much the same thing happens expect Media Player Classic shows the filename "getinfo.avs" in the header and it is stopped.

Either way if I close WMPC, the result is no file is loaded into ripbot and I can't go further. I hope someone can help. I built this computer with the specific intention of ripping and backing up my blu-ray discs to play from my media server. Thanks in advance for your help!

[DarkAvalanche]

Atak_Snajpera,

Thanks for your reply. I tried reinstalling all of those applications but to no avail =( I'm guessing that it might be something conflicting with the x264 encoder, ffdshow, or avisynth. Being that I unistalled every other encoding program I could even think of other than the aforementioned, can you think of any other similar encoding processes that might be able to help narrow down my problem?

My latest attempt at an encode lasted 2 hours into pass 1 before locking up my pc. I really dont want to reinstall windows if there is some way to narrow this down a bit. Thanks in advance.

[DarkAvalanche]

Reading my last post I feel I may have not been clear; what I was getting at was that perhaps there is another codec or program that might use x264 and avisynth but not ffdshow or some combination of the three where I may be able to exclude programs which couldn't be causing my lockup.

[Atak_Snajpera]

@DarkAvalanche
Uninstall all players like (PowerDVD , WinDVD and so on) They very often install their own codecs.

[blackwalker]

well, i try with a sony BD-R.
and finally all woked fine, i burned my first BD-R!!

what i do:
i use tsMuxeR_1.8.8b to rip the main movie/audio/subtitles
on the harddisk as ".m2ts" file.
Its was only 21GB so i dont need to resize it to fit the 25gb blu-ray disc, so i use again tsMuxeR_1.8.8b, so i load the ".2mts" file and
create blu-ray output, and then i used ImageBurn to burn it
on the disc.

thats all!



ho well, the "play test" with computer is perfect!
with my ps3 the video is perfect,
the audio...dunno how to say in english, but i'll try to explain!

the audio backlashes/snaps!
I mean its not constant!!!

the audio is "sincronized" with the video,
but as i just say before, its "always" not costant and the audio backlashes/snaps!

i do something wrong?
maybe its the disc?
maybe the ps3?
maybe the write speed have something to do?
maybe the codec?

hope these are the correct words...lol...my english suck!
i'm just trying to figure out why!

if someone have any idea pls help me!
thx all again for your time!

[Atak_Snajpera]

Current tsmuxer version do not fix gaps in audio!

You should:
1) Extract Video and Audio via latest eac3to
2) Add video and audio in Tsmuxer
3) Create Blu-Ray structure in Tsmuxer

[micro_koi]

I ran a encode job at CQ22 and came out perfect at 10.6G for a 2 hour and 20 min movie. The 2 Pass encode job did not work well for me as the pc crashed twice suring the second pass. I maintained 9958 kb quality. Took 18 hours but quality looks almost the same when I popped in the original disc

[blackwalker]

Current tsmuxer version do not fix gaps in audio!

You should:
1) Extract Video and Audio via latest eac3to
2) Add video and audio in Tsmuxer
3) Create Blu-Ray structure in Tsmuxer

thx Atak_Snajpera.
ok the correct word was "gaps", sorry but mu english suck!!!
I think i had problem with Tsmuxer because the ".m2ts" file
have a true-hd audio track!!

i'll try what you suggest me Atak_Snajpera!

what i do:
1) i use tsMuxeR_1.8.8b to rip the main movie/audio/subtitles
on the harddisk as ".m2ts" file from the original blu-ray film.
Its was only 21GB so i dont need to resize it to fit the 25gb blu-ray disc
2) i use again tsMuxeR_1.8.8b, so i load the ".2mts" file and
create blu-ray output
3) i used ImageBurn to burn it
on the disc.

i can start using eac3to from "2)" or i have to
do also the "1)"??

and

using Ripbot264 i have the same problem or no?
(i still dont use Ripbot264 to create a output blu-ray structure
and burn to a blu-ray disk, but i just make some +DVD Dual Layer and dont have this problem
so i dunno if using Ripbot264 to create a blu-ray structure i'll have tyhe same "gaps" on audio)


there is a guide for eac3to?


thx again Atak_Snajpera for your time and help, a lot!!

[micro_koi]

Can anyone recommend a good mkv joiner. I have 2 files that I want to join together

Thanks

[Atak_Snajpera]

use mmg.exe from tools/mkvtoolnix

[blackwalker]

if i use tsmuxer, selecting the TRUE-HD track and selecting "Downconvert TRUE-HD to AC3" its the same
insted of eac3to?

thx

[wcookiii]

Thanks for the great guide. All went smoothly, although with my computer it took almost a full day to convert a blu ray to .mkv, while retaining 1080p. My problem is that I can't get perfect play back of the resulting .mkv file. Using VLC, both picture and sound are excellent, except when the picture occassionally stutters. Using MPC and KMPlayer the picture is excellent and never stutters, but the audio becomes progressively more out of sync quite rapidly. If I advance or retreat to a new point, the audio and video become resynced, but then the divergence begins anew. This problem sounds the same as the one found by AnitaPeterson. All three players have no problem playing any other mkv files. I do have PowerDVD installed, as well as AnyDVD. When selecting the audio stream I used the x.xCopy Stream option. I tried a second blu ray with the same procedure and (not surprisingly) got the same result. Any suggestions?

[Atak_Snajpera]

Yes! Buy faster CPU!

[wcookiii]

Well, a faster cpu WOULD be nice. But, I don't think that my cpu being a bit slow is the cause of the playback problems. When playing back with VLC the cpu is at 70-80% and actually drops to about 50% during the picture stutter. When using MPC and KMPlayer the CPU is at only about 30%, so that would seem not to be the problem with audio becoming increasingly out of sync. I am experimenting with a short file. Will let you know what works if I find out.

[Atak_Snajpera]

or buy graphic card with DXVA acceleration. I have Radeon 4850 and in MPC-HC (DXVA enabled) CPU is at 1%
What cpu do you have then?

VLC stutters because your cpu is not fast enough to decode 1080p in real time!

[MounaLafi]

Hi everyone,

First of all, I'm sorry if this has been answered somewhere else, because I've searched and searched and couldn't find an answer to my question.

I just want to know if there is any simple way to extract the subtitles from Blue-Ray disks?

I have been using VobSub for this job on DVD's, but I don't know what to do with Blue-Ray's.

I would really appreciate it if someone could give me a hand here.

[Atak_Snajpera]

eac3to

[wolfbane5]

I've been using RipBot264 recently, creating mkv's of a few movies from my collection. Just recently a problem occurred and it doesn't seem to go away. I've been using the guide provided to create the mkv's and normally Pass 1 takes 2.5-3.5 hours and Pass 2 takes anywhere from 8-11 hrs, depending on size, length, frames, etc. Anyway, recently I started encoding The Incredible Hulk and instead of taking a few hours for Pass 1, it only took 30 mins. I looked back and it was only giving me 20-30 kbps and about 100 fps. I don't know what happened here, but I also tried encoding Blood Diamond and the same issue came up. Any help would be appreciated.

[Melmac77]

deleted - Please stick to the topic. This is Blu-ray to and not DVD.
/Admin

[mg3]

No issues using RipBot264 to convert BD video for playback on an Apple TV. Video is fantastic ! Problem is the audio - I can only get stereo on the Apple TV when I convert using RipBot264. I can use Handbrake to convert SD DVDs and get 5.1 audio. What am I doing wrong? I should be able to convert BD to 720P with 5.1 surround for Apple TV playback. Anyone have any ideas?

[wcookiii]

Atak, thanks for the good advice. I purchased a graphics card (Radeon 4350 type) and that has solved the playback problems. By the way my cpu is an Athlon X2 5000+; apparently not up to real time decoding of 1080p.

[Atak_Snajpera]

You can also try Multi-Threaded FFDShow (experimental) http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=173941

[gonwk]

Nice Guide ... Thanks!

G!

[gjrhine]

I am going to try this when my Blu-ray drive arrives shortly. I am wondering about the UDF Reader 2.5 for XP. The AnyDVD web site says -

"Provides its own Universal Disk Format (UDF) reader. Discs which cannot be read by Windows can be copied using the AnyDVD ripper."

Is this something different?

[gonwk]

Hi folks,

I wonder if AnyDVD-HD is really needed or we can get by with DumpHD ...

But on the 1st page "Baldrick" says that DUMPHD "does NOT" support some of the newer BD+ discs.

What about the "DVDFab HD Decrypter" the freeware ... doesn't that rip the Blu-Ray discs to Hard Disc!?!?

Thanks,

G!

[redwudz]

AnyDVD is about your only reliable choice at present. You can try DumpHD or DVDFab HD Decrypter, but I never had any luck with either.

[gjrhine]

Perhaps this from the AnyDVD site answers my question.

"AnyDVD comes with its own UDF 2.5 file ripper, no need to install 3rd party UDF 2.5 filesystem under Windows XP. "

[skylab2]

I am getting the following error and I am not sure what the problem is:

I use TxMuser create a new *.ts files, I then load the .ts file to the ripbot264, at the end of extract the audio file I got this error:

" DirectShowSource: Render file, the filter graph manager won't talk to me, (j: temp\ripbot264temp\
job1\getinfo.avs line 2)"

I have done one movie use ribbot with no problem, but now every *.ts file I try I am getting this error and I don't know why.

I am using vista, loading the m2ts file won't work because of the missing video.mkv error.

Does anyone know how to fix this problem?

this is what is in the getinfo.avs file

video=DirectShowSource("J:\STAR_WARS_CLONE_WARS\test\clonewars.ts",audio=false).ConvertToYV12()
LoadPlugin("E:\blu-ray\tools\AviSynth plugins\NicAudio\NicAudio.dll")
audio=NicAC3Source("J:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\audio.1.ac3")
AudioDub(video,audio)
WriteFile("J:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Framecount")
WriteFile("J:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Framerate")
WriteFile("J:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioRate")
WriteFile("J:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioChannels")
WriteFile("J:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","AudioLength")
WriteFile("J:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Width")
WriteFile("J:\temp\RipBot264temp\job1\info.txt","Height ")
Trim(0,-1)

[sightus]

Many Thanks for this incredible guide!

It works really fantastic. But I have got one problem with the HD DVD Syriana. I tried to backup the subtitle with suprip but the result isnt what I am looking for. The subtitle is asynchronous about 5-7 sec. I did it exactly "your" way. And there ist another problem; how can I remove the english subtitle that is shown when the arabic people talk their national language?

Thanks


EDIT:

Second question; Is there any difference between 29,97 or 25 frames per second? What shall I use?

[Atak_Snajpera]

@skylab2
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1229352#post1229352

> Second question; Is there any difference between 29,97 or 25 frames per second? What shall I use? <
HUGE! BTW. DON'T EVEN TRY TO CHANGE ORIGINAL FRAME RATE ,OK? I don't want to hear another person with silly question "I changed frame rate and now my audio synch is lost . What did I do wrong!!! (cry,cry,cry)"