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[ikon]

btw, I don't think I ever actually posted what I use. I've only done 1 BD rip on my current desktop, but I just used AnyDVD-HD to do it, straight to folder structure on my WHSv1.

[HSS-Dave]

Every time I attempt a BD rip with AnyDVD HD it rips it with subtitles. We generally watch BD's from disc and not from stream so I haven't looked into the issue. I'm sure it's a setting I have wrong somewhere.

[Greg Welch]

I have settled on:

DVDHD have the Lifetime $$ http://www.slysoft.com/en/
DVDFAB 8 $$$ works great http://www.dvdfab.com/
Blurip Free http://code.google.c.../downloads/list

[ikon]

I have settled on:

DVDHD have the Lifetime $$ http://www.slysoft.com/en/
DVDFAB 8 $$$ works great http://www.dvdfab.com/
Blurip Free http://code.google.c.../downloads/list

Can blurip convert a bluray folder structure rip to mkv?

[Mr_Smartepants]

Every time I attempt a BD rip with AnyDVD HD it rips it with subtitles. We generally watch BD's from disc and not from stream so I haven't looked into the issue. I'm sure it's a setting I have wrong somewhere.

I also use AnyDVD HD (no blu-ray drives though...soon) and I thought it always ripped with the subtitles intact. It's the playback software that enables/disables the subtitles.

[ikon]

I ripped Avatar using AnyDVD-HD as a test and played it back with WMC & WMP and I didn't see subtitles.

[StanHD]

Every time I attempt a BD rip with AnyDVD HD it rips it with subtitles. We generally watch BD's from disc and not from stream so I haven't looked into the issue. I'm sure it's a setting I have wrong somewhere.

Not sure about AnyDVD, but DVDFab has a tick box(s) to turn off the "Sub Picture(s)" which removes the subtitles from the ripped file. Took me a while to realize Sub Picture = Subtitle!

[Greg Welch]

Can blurip convert a bluray folder structure rip to mkv?

Yes it has the option to do MKV , sorry i havent tested it

this is its setup page

http://www.flickr.co.../in/photostream

[mrossco]

Still using MyMovies rip/organize the few movies I have and then I use DVDShrink to re-author so that all I end up with on my server is the movie and English subtitles/audio.

[eagle63]

Great thread. Does anyone transcode blu-ray rips into MP4? I'm thinking about doing this so that I can playback the blu-ray rips on an xbox extender. (since extenders cannot playback video_ts folder structure or .ISO) I wonder how much of a quality loss there is by transcoding to a high bit-rate MP4....?

[timekills]

MP4 and MKV are just containers. Most MKV are compressed using MPEG4, but they do not have to be. MP4 is a container that only uses MPEG4 compression. So the answer is an MKV and MP4 using the same compression settings will look exactly the same.

There are some advantages to using the MKV container, notably multiple audio tracks and greater support for chapters and subtitles. You've already found the advantage for the MP4 container - it's understood by XBOX and iOS devices.

[eagle63]

MP4 and MKV are just containers. Most MKV are compressed using MPEG4, but they do not have to be. MP4 is a container that only uses MPEG4 compression. So the answer is an MKV and MP4 using the same compression settings will look exactly the same.

There are some advantages to using the MKV container, notably multiple audio tracks and greater support for chapters and subtitles. You've already found the advantage for the MP4 container - it's understood by XBOX and iOS devices.

Sorry if I'm not getting this, but are you saying that MKV is what a blu-ray is already compressed in? (so my transcoding a blu-ray rip to mp4 I'm not losing anything?) Currently I believe I've been using h.264 for all my DVD transcodes, which is then inside an MP4 container. Thanks in advance, the transcoding stuff has always been a little confusing for me.

[krom]

What about the audio in MP4? I does it still give you the 5.1 audio or just stereo? I know you can get 5.1 in MKV.

[eagle63]

Sorry if I'm not getting this, but are you saying that MKV is what a blu-ray is already compressed in? (so my transcoding a blu-ray rip to mp4 I'm not losing anything?) Currently I believe I've been using h.264 for all my DVD transcodes, which is then inside an MP4 container. Thanks in advance, the transcoding stuff has always been a little confusing for me.

The whole reason I transcode at all is to allow the movies to be playable on the xbox extender. It's NOT for saving disk space. So to put my question another way, is it possible to transcode a blu-ray (or a regular DVD for that matter) to a format that the xbox will accept and NOT lose any quality in the process?

[krom]

Well I'm not sure you can do it without losing any quality. The xbox starts to choke if the bitrate goes too high and will not play the video.

See this from the Xbox support site:

http://support.xbox....tch-dvds-movies

Maximum bit rate and resolution
The Xbox 360 console does not block video from playing based on a maximum bit rate, resolution or frames per second (fps). Although content with a higher bit rate is not blocked, playback quality may be less than optimal. Use higher bit rates at your own risk.

[ImTheTypeOfGuy]

The whole reason I transcode at all is to allow the movies to be playable on the xbox extender. It's NOT for saving disk space. So to put my question another way, is it possible to transcode a blu-ray (or a regular DVD for that matter) to a format that the xbox will accept and NOT lose any quality in the process?

Why not use MM and then you problem is solved.

[eagle63]

Why not use MM and then you problem is solved.

I do use My Movies! But I'm not sure what you're getting at. If you're referring to the ability of MM to automatically transcode (on the fly) movies for extenders, then I'll say that I've tried that and didn't like it at all. Lots of stuttering, audio/video often out of sync, etc. And that was just with a regular DVD not a blu-ray. But if there's some other cool feature I'm missing then please let me know!

[ImTheTypeOfGuy]

I do use My Movies! But I'm not sure what you're getting at. If you're referring to the ability of MM to automatically transcode (on the fly) movies for extenders, then I'll say that I've tried that and didn't like it at all. Lots of stuttering, audio/video often out of sync, etc. And that was just with a regular DVD not a blu-ray. But if there's some other cool feature I'm missing then please let me know!

Interesting. I don't have any of those problems and all I use is MM and TMT5. I wonder if your issue is more of a network issue?

[eagle63]

Interesting. I don't have any of those problems and all I use is MM and TMT5. I wonder if your issue is more of a network issue?

I don't think it's a network issue, though it could be a CPU issue on the box doing the transcoding.. Regardless, I kind of prefer doing the transcoding myself because I can have greater control over the settings. (If you drop the transcoded file alongside the video_ts folder, MM is smart enough to stream the appropriate one to your client which is cool)

[ImTheTypeOfGuy]

Yeah but I don't transcode at all. I rip my movies to iso or folders and MM and TMT5 if a bluray play it without transcoding.