BD to AviSynth (Or VirtualDub/VirtualDubMod) ???

[RogerTango]

Now that I have finally "mastered" DVD ripping & encoding, and I have a WD-TV, and I have a 1080 LCD TV, I think its time to graduate to BluRay "Ripping".

I do not own a BD player, but I do own some BD video disk, and Id like to be able to watch them.

What is the easiest way to get a BluRay disk to my hard drive, and feed it through AviSynth?

I will be doing all my encoding with VirtualDub or VirtualDubMod (to XviD).

For this super n00b, any help would be appreciated.

I anticipate Ill be buying a BD drive in the next few weeks.

Thanks,
Andrew

[redwudz]

Once you get a BD ROM drive, you will also need decryption software. AnyDVD HD seems the best, but it's not cheap. You can try one of the freeware BD decrypters, but I never got them to work for me. A average BD ripped file is about 25GB.

I just use AnyDVD HD and Ripbot264 and backup the BD discs to MKV DVD-5 or DVD-9 DL disc size. Or you can try BD Rebuilder (beta) and see how it works: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic361854.html

You can use Xvid, but the files will need to be much larger than a MKV encode for the same quality.

[RogerTango]

I know Im going to have more questions when I get the drive and start actually messing with the disk.

What about DVDFabHD? Anyone have any real success with it?

Id like to try to rip to the HD as cheaply as possible.

Also, I dont know, so help a dummy out here... With DVD, you get VOB files, with BD, do you get M2TS files, am I understanding this correctly?

Will VirtualDubMod open the M2TS files directly?? If so, I can just skip AviSynth, since all my processing is actually done with VDMod.


Thx,
Andrew

[redwudz]

I've never gotten a .m2ts file to open directly in VDM. It just says it can't detect the file type.

If you look to the upper left on this page for 'WHAT IS' Blu-ray, you can see information about the BD structure. It's quite a bit different than a DVD. The main movie is usually contained in one .m2ts file. 1920x1080x24p, 23.976p (16:9) is a common format.

Some other BD guides here: https://www.videohelp.com/guides/category/blu-ray-backup-articles-6;71#6;71

[RogerTango]

Is the video of BD still MPEG2? A lot of things have changed since I was "out of the scene" for a while. Im guessing the audio is AC3, but not the same as is found in a VOB. Theres the VC-1, H264, and several things I yet to understand.

Ive got a lot of learning to do!

Andrew