happenin0355 Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Hello guys, this may be old and out of date my question. However I just purchased a lg blu ray drive and am trying to back up a blu ray being transformers. In order to do this I have done some research and was able to use anydvd to rip it, and ripbot to shrink the main file size. However the file is now a .mp4 and not a .m2ts... So there is now 15 files in the bdmv/stream folder that are .m2ts, and the movie is now a .mp4 sitting on the outside looking in. My question is I now have img burn open and am trying to make sure that I put these files in the right order so they will play back on a standard blu ray player. I dont want to mess this step up as wasting a blank blu ray would prove costly, guess the old coaster idea is still an option. Would rather get it right the first time though. Any help or feedback is greatly appreciated.
LIGHTNING UK! Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Whilst I've never used RipBot myself, a quick Google suggests you didn't configure it correctly if you've ended up with an MP4 file. One screenshot I saw seemed to show MP4 / MKV / AVCHD output options. If you're running it with the intention of creating a folder structure that'll leave you with a playable disc then you should be using the AVCHD option. The only alternative I know of is to get an MKV and use tsmuxer to create the proper BD video structure. Rather than wasting discs, make an ISO, mount it in a virtual drive program and test it with PowerDVD etc. Failing that, buy yourself a BD-RE. They're very useful.
happenin0355 Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 All valid and appreciate the feedback. I have since looked and there is an option for the avchd format. That being said is the quality worth burning to a blu ray and expecting to get blu ray quality back in return? I will try to attempt making an iso and mounting it. Has been years since ive used virtual drive stuff, daemon tools back in 2002.
LIGHTNING UK! Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Don't forget you're probably just working on a single title/playlist from the original BD structure (the 'main movie' one). So the extras and menus etc will be gone. You can strip unwanted audio/subtitle streams from the output - thus reducing the size. In the end, you might only be reducing the bitrate by a tiny amount - only you know if you can notice the difference, try it.
happenin0355 Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 Don't forget you're probably just working on a single title/playlist from the original BD structure (the 'main movie' one). So the extras and menus etc will be gone. You can strip unwanted audio/subtitle streams from the output - thus reducing the size. In the end, you might only be reducing the bitrate by a tiny amount - only you know if you can notice the difference, try it. That is correct, using ripbot the only video that i was compressing is the main one being 41 gig which reduced it now to 10 gig in mp4 format. I am now in the process of converting the main movie one to avchd like you had suggested. Do you know how I go about including the menu and extras into the burn? I guess that is the problem that I am having. I have a copy of the main movie that was compressed to mp4. I dont know whether i can just copy and paste that into the bdmv folder removing the main movie out of the bdmv folder. Then i would just copy the whole bdmv folder to imgburn and after burning it, it would play back in blu ray format?
LIGHTNING UK! Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 The mp4 file is useless, you can't do anything with it except play it on a machine supporting mp4 files. Putting in in a BDMV folder doesn't change what it is. So just forget about the mp4 file and delete it. You're wasting your time compressing to 10gb if you want to maintain as much of the original quality/detail as possible. Obviously you want the output files to be around the size of the discs you're going to be burning to - i.e. 25GB for a normal single layer BD-R disc. If you want to keep menus then you'll have to look for a program that supports doing that. Maybe RipBot does? I don't know. The likes of BDRebuilder/ClownBD can do it though.
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