Best Blu-ray ISO to MKV software? and more...

scrolling · 2010-04-28 21:21

Have you tried Clown_BD? It's a slick little program.

cowfodder · 2010-04-30 03:54

Another +1 for MakeMKV. It's lightweight, and very well supported. It's still beta software, and will be paid once it comes out of beta, so we'll have to see where it goes from there.

GJones · 2010-04-30 19:17

Anyone know of the minimum hardware for makemkvcon (not the gui version)? I have considered using an old Pentium 4 box strictly for makemkvcon and dvdbackup.

lloydsmart · 2010-05-01 22:15

I'd guess it has very minimal hardware requirements, since it's basically just a decrypt-and-copy solution. It doesn't do any transcoding or CPU-intensive stuff. So long as you have the HDD space, you're good to go IMO. :-)

cowfodder · 2010-05-02 05:40

Quote:System Requirements

* Windows Vista/XP/Win7 or Intel-based Mac OS X 1.4 and above
* 512 MB of RAM, 1 GB recommended. MakeMKV will run on computers with low memory amount but conversion speed will be very slow.
* 10 MB of hard drive space for program files.
* Adequate hard drive space for converted content. Typical DVD movie takes 6 GB on hard drive. Typical Blu-ray movie takes 20 GB.

From http://www.makemkv.com/download/

GJones · 2010-05-04 19:31

cowfodder Wrote:From http://www.makemkv.com/download/

I should have been more specific. I was looking for specific CPU requirements when utilizing Linux, since it could possibly require features of specific chipsets. I had already read the very ineffective requirements posting from that site.

Thank you, nonetheless.

pavgater01 · 2011-01-25 07:33

I heard from my friend that Pavtube released a new product named Pavtube ByteCopy on Jan, 24th, 2011.

Below is its instruction on its offical web:

Quote:It can rip and convert commercial Blu-ray movies and DVDs to MKV container format with multiple audio tracks and subtitles included. Besides retaining multiple audio tracks (especially HD audios- Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio) and multiple subtitles in an MKV video without transcoding, Pavtube ByteCopy is also able to encode the original soundtracks into DTS 5.1 channels, AC3 5.1 channels, AAC 6 channels, PCM 6 channels, and MP3 6 channels with your wanted languages.

However, it seems that it doesn't support Blu-ray ISO files at the moment. I'm not sure whether it will support Blu-ray ISO or not.

At least, I think this tool could be of some helpful to you to backup bluray to MKV with complete lossless.

For more information please refer to Pavtube ByteCopy.

scrolling Senior Member Posts: 190 Joined: Feb 2009 Reputation: 1	2010-04-28 21:21 Post: #11 Have you tried Clown_BD? It's a slick little program. HTPC: Apex MI-008 \| Foxconn H67S \| Celeron G530 \| G.SKILL 4GB \| Crucial 64 SSD\| Arctic Cooling \| PicoPSU-160-XT (This post was last modified: 2010-04-29 04:19 by scrolling.)
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cowfodder Fan Posts: 386 Joined: Jan 2010 Reputation: 2	2010-04-30 03:54 Post: #12 Another +1 for MakeMKV. It's lightweight, and very well supported. It's still beta software, and will be paid once it comes out of beta, so we'll have to see where it goes from there.
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GJones Fan Posts: 438 Joined: Nov 2009 Reputation: 0	2010-04-30 19:17 Post: #13 Anyone know of the minimum hardware for makemkvcon (not the gui version)? I have considered using an old Pentium 4 box strictly for makemkvcon and dvdbackup.
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lloydsmart Member+ Posts: 306 Joined: Sep 2009 Reputation: 0 Location: UK	2010-05-01 22:15 Post: #14 I'd guess it has very minimal hardware requirements, since it's basically just a decrypt-and-copy solution. It doesn't do any transcoding or CPU-intensive stuff. So long as you have the HDD space, you're good to go IMO. :-)
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GJones Fan Posts: 438 Joined: Nov 2009 Reputation: 0	2010-05-04 19:31 Post: #16 cowfodder Wrote:From http://www.makemkv.com/download/ I should have been more specific. I was looking for specific CPU requirements when utilizing Linux, since it could possibly require features of specific chipsets. I had already read the very ineffective requirements posting from that site. Thank you, nonetheless.
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