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  1. Hi, sorry if this has already been addressed, but I couldn't find anything on it.

    I have a BDMV folder on my hard drive from a Blu-Ray disc. I'd like to know how I can create an MKV video file from it, if that's possible.

    Do I first need to create a mountable BR disc image (like an ISO of a DVD)? If so, can someone suggest a freeware or shareware app for this?

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    check out makemkv.

    rip with dvdfabdecrypter or anydvdhd first - though I think makemkv does rip but I don't know if it rips bluray and I don't know how current it is for decryption versus the other programs built just for ripping.
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  3. That worked, thanks. I just had to first create an image with ImgBurn and mount it to my virtual BR drive.
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    Glad to help.

    You may want to check closer in makemkv. I wouldn't be surprised if there was a folder read option instead of disc only option. That would save a step or two.
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  5. Now you tell me! :P

    Lol, you are indeed correct, wish I had thought to look beforehand. At least I discovered ImgBurn, which might come in handy.

    Thanks again.
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    Originally Posted by elcoyoteloco View Post
    Now you tell me! :P

    Lol, you are indeed correct, wish I had thought to look beforehand. At least I discovered ImgBurn, which might come in handy.

    Thanks again.
    Actually I've only used it a few times so I don't know it very well. But reading folders is a very common feature for conversion programs and authoring programs.

    You should use imgburn most of the time for burning discs. It is well respected here on this forum and will serve you well
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  7. I'm a n00b when it comes to this stuff. Are there any guides anywhere as to how to do this? Would I be able to do this with MKVToolNix?!
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    In reply ot the last post on thos old thread.

    I have transferred my entire DVD and Blu Ray disc collection directly to hard drive using MakeMKV, it reads from disc or existing folders. It is very simple to use. MKVToolNix is a program for adding or removing files from existing MKV files. So after using MakeMKV you discovered you had accidentally left in many additional languages or subtitles MKVToolNix can remove them. So no you can't rip from disc with MKVToolNix
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  9. Originally Posted by netmask56 View Post
    In reply ot the last post on thos old thread.

    I have transferred my entire DVD and Blu Ray disc collection directly to hard drive using MakeMKV, it reads from disc or existing folders. It is very simple to use. MKVToolNix is a program for adding or removing files from existing MKV files. So after using MakeMKV you discovered you had accidentally left in many additional languages or subtitles MKVToolNix can remove them. So no you can't rip from disc with MKVToolNix
    I did come across MakeMKV in another thread, but it isn't freeware :/ (which, I guess, is good in the sense that it's probably not packed with malware, but no so good for the wallet). Did you buy the program?

    Thanks for the info!
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    MakeMKV is freeware.
    It's been in Beta for a long time....
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  11. Originally Posted by redwudz View Post
    MakeMKV is freeware.
    It's been in Beta for a long time....
    Yeah, I just got it working. However, apparently it's free only until March of this year, so less than a month now. Somebody said something about VidCoder, so I'm going to take a look at too.
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    No it's free! You just have to re register every 3 months I think it is, a new key is openly published. The really big advantage of MakeMKV is it doesn't re-encode and it is uber fast, minutes against hours for Vidcoder or Handbrake. The downside for some people with limited storage is it doesn't shrink the size. Size in = size out (less any elements you have left out) I used it that way for years until I decided to buy it. Good investment
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  13. You don't even have to make an image first. You can have MakeMKV open the "index.bdmv" file in the folder which should allow it to mount and convert to .mkv.
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  14. Originally Posted by netmask56 View Post
    No it's free! You just have to re register every 3 months I think it is, a new key is openly published. The really big advantage of MakeMKV is it doesn't re-encode and it is uber fast, minutes against hours for Vidcoder or Handbrake. The downside for some people with limited storage is it doesn't shrink the size. Size in = size out (less any elements you have left out) I used it that way for years until I decided to buy it. Good investment
    So then it basically "repackages" the file similar to what you can do with ffmpeg?

    The quality of the video that I tried it on was really bad for some reason :/
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  15. Originally Posted by stonesfan99 View Post
    You don't even have to make an image first. You can have MakeMKV open the "index.bdmv" file in the folder which should allow it to mount and convert to .mkv.
    I did it with the MovieObject.bdmv. What's the difference between index.bdmv and MovieObject.bdmv?
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    You appear to be making the process far more complicated than it really is - all MakeMKV does is wrap the selected video title from within the Blu Ray as a MKV file. It doesn't re-encode so it cant affect the quality in anyway. If you apparently got a different quality then maybe on the Blu Ray disc there are several versions of the same title in different quality? Who knows ? It really is a one stop process - run MakeMKV, put the DVD or Blue ray disc and press go, then up comes the various titles on the disc, untick what you don't want and away you go. Basically in the case of a BD just select index.bdmv and that will bring up all the titles on the disc. Read the docs, go to the MakeMKV web page or take a look at these https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MakeMKV&page=&utm_source=opensearch
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  17. Originally Posted by netmask56 View Post
    You appear to be making the process far more complicated than it really is - all MakeMKV does is wrap the selected video title from within the Blu Ray as a MKV file. It doesn't re-encode so it cant affect the quality in anyway. If you apparently got a different quality then maybe on the Blu Ray disc there are several versions of the same title in different quality? Who knows ? It really is a one stop process - run MakeMKV, put the DVD or Blue ray disc and press go, then up comes the various titles on the disc, untick what you don't want and away you go. Basically in the case of a BD just select index.bdmv and that will bring up all the titles on the disc. Read the docs, go to the MakeMKV web page or take a look at these https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=MakeMKV&page=&utm_source=opensearch
    It just rewraps the file, that's what I thought.

    I figured out I can do the same exact same thing with MKVToolNix too, so MakeMKV isn't even necessary.

    I'm still curious as to what's the difference between the MovieObject and index file?!
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