Blu Ray copy time

[pepegot1]

I backed up a two hour movie I bought in less than three hours. Is this good time?
Rip with AnyDVD: 35 min
TsMuxer: 16 min
BD Rebuilder: 1.5 hours (fast mode)
ImageBurn: 17 min

I heard some ridiculous claims of 6-8 hours-unbelievable not practical. It looks good on my BD player

[redwudz]

The ripping time seems about right. tsMuxeR time is also about right. BD rebuilder, depends on the settings used and the output format. How large was the BDRB file? What format and what quality settings? ImgBurn times seem about right.

Six or seven hours would be about right if you converted the BD to a MKV with very good quality. It takes me ~5 hours to go from BD to a ~8GB MKV, two pass, with RipBot. And that's fairly fast with great quality. If you don't have to re-encode, or you use low quality settings, it will be much faster.

[Kerry56]

6 hrs encoding time on a two pass encode in BD Rebuilder is not all that unusual when making a backup to 25gb BD-R. Depends on the speed of your computer as well as the quality settings you use.

Making an mkv in BD Rebuilder, I've gone from 28gb to 9.4gb in 1hr 45 minutes in one of my tests, using CRF encoding and the default 20 quality setting.

[mrswla]

If you are backing up a BD50 to BD25 and using bdrb, what are you using TsMuxer for?

[pepegot1]

TsMuxer creates the BDMV folder for burning or to BD Rebuilder for modification to 25 gig file.

[jman98]

I heard some ridiculous claims of 6-8 hours-unbelievable not practical. It looks good on my BD player

If it took that long and you let it run overnight while you sleep, why would you care?

I'm guessing that you are one of those "I MUST watch my PC every second it is powered on" kind of people. I've got AMD's fastest 6 core Phenom II processor and it takes about 2-3 hours for me to shrink a BD disc down to single layer BD, but I keep everything. Dude, I work in IT for a living. You really need to drop this "I must personally oversee and watch my PC for everything it does" stuff. Computers were designed to do stuff while you are are not there. Leverage that.

[pepegot1]

No, I think hours of encoding for a single disc is ridiculous. Two to Three hours is acceptable and, no more to me, though others may differ. Better to keep to DVD's in that case.

mrswla : I am new to BD backups. Could I just use BD Rebuilder directly without TsMuxer. Will BD be able to know which file is the main movie?
I use BDInfo to locate the MPLS file of the main movie. Then, TsMuxer to make the BDMV file. If it's too big > 25 gig, then I use BD Rebuilder to modify and finally burn with ImgBurn. Any suggestions?

[TimA-C]

How p!ssed off are you going to be in a couple of years time when your copies look just meh on your spanky new 120" OLED TV and yet jman's still look great?

If you're happy with your results then I'm happy for you, but, as you said yourself, you are "new to BD backups", so you should probably allow for the fact that you don't really know what you're talking about.

[pepegot1]

I can refresh my copies with ISOBuster as I do DVD's. So, time will tell. I just cannot see spending all that time for one BD-better things to do! Besides, for real archiving I will stay with quick and reliable DVD's. The results on my BD player are most satisfactory. To each his own pal!

[TimA-C]

Huh? How is having to re-do something down the road a "better thing to do"? Likewise what other better things has your PC got to do whilst you're asleep? Oh well, whatever makes you happy.

[mrswla]

mrswla : I am new to BD backups. Could I just use BD Rebuilder directly without TsMuxer. Will BD be able to know which file is the main movie?

Yes bdrb can be used directly. If all you want is the main movie, then put bdrb in main movie mode.

[fritzi93]

I'm not criticizing mind you, and probably shouldn't be putting my spoke in here. But I'm puzzled.

What difference does it make so long as the job is done when you get up in the morning? Are you in a hurry to backup your Blu-Ray collection all at once?