[WINDOWS] Converting Blu-ray rips?

Balthazar2k4 Wrote:Try this:

http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=198879

I like this over MakeMKV for two reasons. First, it uses all freeware programs to achieve its goal. Second, it has an option to convert Lossless audio to FLAC which XBMC can play in multichannel configurations.

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If you want to do something 'clever' then these tools allow you to take multiple files and combine them into one MKV. All good. However most people just want the movie, not all the extraneous parts often included on a BluRay disc. Assuming the .ISO file is on the PC (either as it was downloaded as such or it is accessible via AnyDVD-HD) then the STREAM folder will typically contain the movie in a single .M2TS (MPEG2 Transport Stream) file. This file can be played directly but I find it's better to convert it to an MKV file by DeMuxing then ReMuxing with the audio, subtitle etc. tracks you want. There is a full tutorial on this on contentwhores.com.

Balthazar2k4 Wrote:Try this:

http://www.curtpalme.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=198879

I like this over MakeMKV for two reasons. First, it uses all freeware programs to achieve its goal. Second, it has an option to convert Lossless audio to FLAC which XBMC can play in multichannel configurations.

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poofyhairguy Wrote:+1

what size do such rips at high quality normally have?

Suven Wrote:what size do such rips at high quality normally have?

Depends on the disc. Anywhere from around 14TB (Pixar movies) to 43GB (Avatar). It is a pure rip, no re-encoding....

So if DVDFab is used to just rip the m2ts file then it's uncompressed so that means the files will be huge right? 10 gigs and up? now I wonder what it's used to make them into a 4 gig file and look so sharp.

Also why is mkv better vs m2ts? (why go the extra step to convert to mkv)

you answered yourself in the first sentence. m2ts will be 18gb+ and mkv can be compressed to 8gb-10gb with unnoticeable video quality

x264 is used for compressing. And yeah, those 4GB encodes look really good....on 15inch CRT . You can compress a video stream in any container, m2ts, or MKV, doesn`t matter.
Ripping just to m2ts leaves you without chapter support, so MKV is preffered since you have chapter support that way. Compressing a movie to a transparent encode takes skill and numerous test encodes, and is not worth it, and you end up to something like 12-18GB per encode (depends on the audio, HD audio or lossy DTS/DD)

HDD space is cheap, ripping the main movie is fast and easy with Make MKV or DVD Fab. Encoding is slow, and takes skill to achieve a transparent encode.

8gb-10gb look great on my 50" ....and then there are QEBS encoded mp4's which are 4GB and superb!!

There`s a difference between look great and look exactly like the original Blu Ray...and those FASM encodes (i had 2 or 3 of them, 3GB GB or so) look like s*it even on my 22inch monitor, upscaled DVD quality. And Dolby Digital is 2001 tech, which is what they include in those encodes. Lossless audio (DTS-HD/TrueHD) takes 2GB or so by itself.