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I'm very new to XBMC, as of a few days ago new, and am just tinkering for now.
For Bluray iso images, I'm playing with bher20's automount script that uses Slysoft's virtual clone drive to mount the iso and launch the movie in your external player of choice. This allows you to select the movie from your library and have it play, hopefully without any more button presses (though it looks like you will see a series of splash and transitional screens as the various programs in the chain do their thing to get the iso playing). Not exactly ideal, but certainly better than doing it manually I guess.
I'm going to start playing with rips of various sorts... any suggestions are appreciated (I'm doing a forum search as we speak... how I ran across this thread). I'll try M2TS and h.264 transcodes for now.
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Does anyone have a full understanding as to why XBMC will not play blu-ray isos? I even have the menus ripped out using clownBD and they will not play. I obviously do not know much, but i wouldn't think it requires a lot more coding than any other file type. If the XMBC team would complete this task i think the program would be an answer for everyone.
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I use a process similar to SikiMo
AnyDVD to rip to image
eac3to to extract the streams and package the video into an mkv
Suprip to convert the subtitles (if necessary - I only keep forced for english titles)
MKVtoolnix to mux the chapters and audio into the mkv file
I like this approach because it leaves the video untouched, and the only audio adjustments are to extract the core tracks from HD audio streams and I also re-code DTS audio into AC3 as I have a component that doesn't like DTS.
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I paid $49 for Pavtube blu-ray ripper which enables i copy BD on HDD of my PC for local playback,on iphone for playback, play Blu-ray movie on HDTV via WDTV HD Media Player.
I prefer to this software,because it handles all versions of Blu-ray discs and allows me to set subtitle and dubbings.
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i have tried makemkv but almost none work in xbmc i get audio only or i get it to work but the video slows down and speeds up makes me feel sick watching but all the mkvs work fine on windows. Has anyone had this problem or can someone recommend another program like makemkv?
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I rip using MakeMKV and watch with my Mini C2D w/ Crystal HD. This works best for me as I will have all of my BDs on hard drives within the next week. I have read about using MakeMKV to directly read a BD and stream using UPNP without having to step through ripping the movie. Maybe I'll give this a try when I get home.
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I use Anydvd hd and ToNmt to rip the movie to m2ts.
Very simple:
1. Insert BD.
2. Wait ~10 seconds for Anydvd hd to recognize.
3. Start ToNmt and select Auto Source.
4. Set the destination.