Ripping and editing blu-rays movies
unclebiskabobka
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Interesting proposition for you here. I'm wanting to rip most of my blu-rays to a home server so that I can play them straight through my server and not have to worry with the blu-ray player. I was wondering if any of you have done this, or have any software to recommend for this purpose. What file format do you advise converting the blu-ray to for best playback, keeping in mind that I would like the video and audio quality to remain as close to the original as possible? Size of the file isn't really going to bother me, I'll have plenty of space, so don't worry about that.
I also was wondering, if you have done that, have you ever found any software that would allow you to edit the file that you ripped from the blu-ray; for example, taking out scenes or muting sections?
I've found a few ways that I think might work for what I'm looking for, but I was just wondering if any of you have personal experience trying this.
Thanks in advance for the suggestions!
I also was wondering, if you have done that, have you ever found any software that would allow you to edit the file that you ripped from the blu-ray; for example, taking out scenes or muting sections?
I've found a few ways that I think might work for what I'm looking for, but I was just wondering if any of you have personal experience trying this.
Thanks in advance for the suggestions!
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Receiver - Pioneer VSX-521
Front speakers - Polk Monitor 40's Series II
Center - Polk Monitor CS1 Series II
Surround - Polk Audio OWM3
Subwoofer - JBL L8400P
"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."
~Ray Charles~
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Grr. Just noticed the misspelling in the title.TV - LG 42" LED
Receiver - Pioneer VSX-521
Front speakers - Polk Monitor 40's Series II
Center - Polk Monitor CS1 Series II
Surround - Polk Audio OWM3
Subwoofer - JBL L8400P
"I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart. Like my blood. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."
~Ray Charles~ -
I don't know of anyway of how the ripped files can be viewed from a server, but the problem is the file size... Blu-Rays are usually 35-50GB in size, depending on the additional material on the disc. That being the case, you can only put about 20-30 movies on a 1TB hdd... You are going to need about 5 1TB HDD to store just 100 movies.
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Format-wise it depends on what you're playing back on. I use my PS3 for playback of blu-ray rips, so I use the .m2ts format (AVCHD) since that's what the PS3 supports. Also .m2ts is the container blu-ray discs use for the movie files.
Ripping.. I use AnyDVD HD. Just rips the whole disc in its native directory structure to your hdd.
At this point it depends on how you are playing the movies back. If you're just using VLC or powerDVD or something, then you can simply open the main .m2ts movie in tsmuxer and remove all the extraneous video tracks and audio tracks and export back to .m2ts. That'll lower the file size a bit, but yes the movies will still be pretty big. I'm not sure how practical that is.
I usually reencode blu-ray movies to ~ 8.5GB (1080p x264 + 640kbps dolby digital 5.1) as long as movies are < 2hrs long. Anything more and I'll set the overall bitrate to something higher to maintain quality (~8 - 10MBps). But my point is, you can encode to something higher and still save a bit more space.ALL BOXED UP for a while until I save up for a new place
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