New Help with Blue Ray

[titan325]

Hello all, I'm new here and looking to see if someone can point me in the right direction to copy my Blue Rays. I'm deployed in Iraq and have a bunch of movies but I'm finding that the sand is getting to them. I have two that wont play now because of it. I have been able to copy and put them on a CDR but that isn't really doing to get it. I would like to just strip the movie(keep quality) and dump them on an external drive. That way I can send my BD home and stop any further damage. All I need I think is a guide (so many of them) to rip the raw video (audio) and leave the rest behind.

Thanks in advance.
Matthew

[Baldrick]

MakeMKV.

[fritzi93]

Hello Matt, and welcome to the forum.

Yeah, if I were you I'd rip main movie to an MKV file with MakeMKV. The advantage of MKV is it's a single file with chapters and subs, just click on it and it plays in whatever player you have associated with MKVs. Like MPCHC or VLC.

If hard drive space is not a concern, that would certainly be the easiest/quickest option. Just load up the disc in MakeMKV and deselect all audio and subtitle tracks except the *first* English tracks listed. Rip, done.

[EDIT] Guides available at the MakeMKV site.

[titan325]

fritzi93

Thanks for the help. I'll try that one. It is exactly what i want. How big are the files sizes. I know useing Anydvd HD an ISO image was like 49 gids..Way to big. I'd like to keep them a little smaller than that...Well I was shooting for under 4 gigs.

Thanks
Matthew

[Baldrick]

You must shrink/reconvert if you them so small. Use ripbot264 or bdrebuilder to shrink to a single mkv/mp4 file.

http://adubvideo.net/how-to/convert-blurays-ipad-bd-rebuilder

[fritzi93]

There ya go. Baldrick beat me again.

With the computer in your specs, you should be able to do a re-encode overnight and get a reasonably small file size if the CRF value is not set too low. Try it at default value. If you're only going to display the movies on that computer, it would probably be best to set the output to MKV 1280x720 AC3 audio. (That would also result in a smaller output file at the same CRF value).

Good luck.

[titan325]

Ok so I started MakeMKV. Now it is saying that AnyDVD is running and it works better with out it. I have uninstalled Anydvd and restarted but I get same error..Any ideas? It is running now and seems to be doing the job (MakeMKV)

[hech54]

You don't need to uninstall AnyDVD....just disable it.

[titan325]

Yeah...Where though..my copy has expired..So i can't get into the program it's self to do that..Looked in processes (in task manager) but don't see it running there either

[Moontrash]

you should be able to use DVDFab HD Decrypter and rip those BR's to the hard drive then use bd rebuilder to mkv the stuff you want..an all in one freebie solution

[titan325]

Nice have to like the free solution..Thanks Moontrash