Newbie question on BluRay/MKV

[Zoas]

Hi all,

Here is my newbie question.

I am completely new to this BluRay world.

I just got my first BluRay movie that I want to make a backup of in MKV format. After that, if I play the MKV file and watch the movie from the PC, which is connected to my HDTV, instead of putting the disk in the BluRay player, the movie's image quality and sound should be the same as what the BluRay player would offer me? Right? If I understand some of the information I have gathered so far, I basicaly don't lose any of the image and sound quality that my original disk offers me.

Thank you in advance and very nice forums btw.

[tkolt]

their are several ways to backup your bluray files to mkv & several programs to do it. Clown_BD is a good one.

there are also a TON of backup guides in other forums.

[Baldrick]

Use MakeMKV or ClownBD or ToNMT if you just want one file without any shrinking(15-35GB). Click on them for downloads and guides.

Use Ripbot264 if you also want to shrink it.

And you also need AnyDVDHD (MakeMKV might work without ANYDVD on some Blu-rays).

[jman98]

Hi all,

Here is my newbie question.

I am completely new to this BluRay world.

I just got my first BluRay movie that I want to make a backup of in MKV format. After that, if I play the MKV file and watch the movie from the PC, which is connected to my HDTV, instead of putting the disk in the BluRay player, the movie's image quality and sound should be the same as what the BluRay player would offer me? Right?

Theoretically yes, but if your connection from your PC to your HDTV is of a noticeably lower quality than your BluRay player to HDTV connection, you may perceive an inferior image when in fact it's the connection to blame. Also, depending on your hardware you may find that the sound going from the PC to the HDTV is inferior to what you get on the BluRay player. So even though, yes, you can make an MKV file that is identical to the original BluRay, I can't promise you that your connection between your PC and your HDTV can play that file in all its glory.

[redwudz]

If you just put it in a MKV container, it would be the same quality and it's fairly quick. And the same size. Usually 20 - 30 GB. Or you could convert it to MKV with a program like RipBot and reduce the filesize quite a bit without too much quality loss. But it takes about six hours or more depending on your PC specs.

There's a discussion of the first method here: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic373732.html

Using RipBot: https://forum.videohelp.com/topic358185.html

That's just a couple of methods. If you look in the Blu-ray to AVI/MP4/MKV/WMV Forum there are others.

And welcome to our forums.

[Zoas]

Theoretically yes, but if your connection from your PC to your HDTV is of a noticeably lower quality than your BluRay player to HDTV connection, you may perceive an inferior image when in fact it's the connection to blame. Also, depending on your hardware you may find that the sound going from the PC to the HDTV is inferior to what you get on the BluRay player. So even though, yes, you can make an MKV file that is identical to the original BluRay, I can't promise you that your connection between your PC and your HDTV can play that file in all its glory.

So for someone who has what it needs, which is, excellent connection from PC to HDTV and proper hardware for the sound, the quality should be honoring my original BluRay disk.

With that said and confirmed, why spend the money on a 700$ BluRay player when I can get the same quality from my own PC on which I spend lots on to start with?

Thank you very much for all your help guys It is immensely appreciated.

[tkolt]

"With that said and confirmed, why spend the money on a 700$ BluRay player when I can get the same quality from my own PC on which I spend lots on to start with? ""
NOT exactly true..bluray players sare around $150 for budget players. You wont be able to take advantage of the newest HD audio formats as well since your converting them.

but..if your happy with watching stuff on your pc thats cool

[Zoas]

You wont be able to take advantage of the newest HD audio formats as well since your converting them.

but..if your happy with watching stuff on your pc thats cool

So if I understand correctly, I'll be losing audio quality by making a backup of my disk in MKV?

Just earlier in this thread, one person says that I can make an MKV file that is identical to the original BluRay.

I am confused here...

[minerva.thegift]

In general, you would be loosing video, not audio, quality. As has been outlined above in this thread, you can either:
1. Take the Blu Ray movie and put it in a .mkv file (without changing any of it) This means you'll get a very large file.
2. Take the Blu Ray movie and compress it with something like x264 with some (but, in my opinion, not much) loss in video quality. You could leave the audio in the format it is in (no quality loss) or you could encode it into a smaller format like OggVorbis (some quality loss.) This will give you files that are approximately 1/3 to 1/4 the size of the first method. Note that these are also .mkv files (.mkv is the container, it's what you put the pieces in to.)

[tkolt]

you'll loose audio quality IF you re-encode the audio to a format different from the newer HD formats. also if you do keep the audio formats (newer HD audio = DTS-HD, dolby digital plus, true HD) unless your runing them through an A/V recevier that can decode the newer audio audio your stuck...your tv cant decode those audio formats. if your pumping the mkv from your computer to a tv your not going to get the QuaLITY of audio that is inteded by keeping the original audio unless your doing thru HDMI. all my mkv's are run thru my A/V receiver iin order to decode the NEWER HD audio, just like using a bluray player..my old A/v unit couldnt decode the newer hd audio so i had to upgrade