Blu-Ray to Apple TV

[heliocentric]

Let me try that one. Just picked it last night. Will report back.

thank you

its ever so slight, but very annoying...

 

[appleaddict24]

i have a fastmac 6x blu ray reader and when i use it with makemkv it only rips at 1.5x is anyone else having this issue or is it my reader?

 

[DoFoT9]

i have a fastmac 6x blu ray reader and when i use it with makemkv it only rips at 1.5x is anyone else having this issue or is it my reader?

no that wont be the reader, its likely that the BD itself is limited to 1.5x

 

[appleaddict24]

have you come across this issue? because its done it with all the blu rays ive ripped

 

[DoFoT9]

have you come across this issue? because its done it with all the blu rays ive ripped

ive not worried about it in the past, because i *assumed* (meaning i used some logic ) that a BD player only requires 1x speed. so why would the companies waste money on releasing the BD that is 2x/4x/etc speed when the BD player cant really benefit from it? though im not 100% sure.

when you say 1.5x, what is the actual throughput of the drive? rip a BD and check Activity Monitor.app for Disk Usage and report back the MB/s rate which should be 6.75MB/s according to what you are saying.

 

[appleaddict24]

6.8 m/s it the rate. so how are people ripping a blu ray in 20 min im new to this stuff so any help is great thank you

 

[Mr. Incredible]

Problem, need help:

I have an external blu ray player, and an iMac.

I put my INCEPTION bluray inside the drive, and i opened MakeMKV.

I clicked the Backup Disc button, and it started doing its thing.

Once it finished, I opened the folder to where I saved it, and I see 3 Folders (Each having sub folders, some more than others).

These are the files I got:

AACS
BDMV
CERTIFICATE

Inside the BDMV folder, I see a STREAM folder, that has 59 items, all ranging from 836KB to 5.55GB. There are 9 folders, each with over 1GB. I don't know which to use for Handbrake.

I tried opening the biggest file, the 5.55GB file, and it didn't work.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Mr. Incredible]

I'm Stuck

Methods

1. Boot into Windows using Boot Camp (If you have Parallels or Fusion, you can use it as well if your drive can bur) and install AnyDVD HD. Connect your Blu-ray drive, insert a disc, and after a few seconds you should be able to rip a backup of your BD from the drive to your hard disk. This can take 35-40 gb. I have a 500 gb USB2/FW400 drive initialized as NTFS for this purpose.

Alternatively, you can use MakeMKV under OS X provided you have a Blu-ray drive ROM drive (burning capability is no longer required)

2. After ripping, open the ripped Streams folder to identify the largest file - this is the movie. Note that some discs have the movie partitioned into separate streams (e.g., Ratattouile, Meet the Robinsons). For these movies, you need to install BDinfo to find the playlist for the movie. Once identified, open this playlist in tsmuxer (next step).

3. Launch tsmuxer and add the m2ts movie or playlist file. Identify the tracks of interest, which should be 1080p video and audio of your preferred language. Uncheck all other files. If the audio is in True-HD or DTS-HD, click on that track to highlight it and choose the option to extract these to either AC3 or DTS. Set the file output to m2ts or ts, then save it to your Windows NTFS drive. If you're using the current Fusion, you can save the file to your Mac home folder (Z drive).

If you rip with Make MKV, step 3 may be unnecessary. Try opening the file directly with Handbrake.

(Note: Some have determined that unchecking "Add picture timing info" and "Continually insert SPS/PPS" in tsmuxer improved Handbrake readability of the generated m2ts or ts files. If HB has trouble opening the file or producing inordinately large files, unchecking these options may resolve the problem.)​

4. Launch Handbrake to open the file. If the audio is in AC3 Dolby Digital, you shouldn't have any problems (but ymmv). If HB has difficulty opening the file created by tsmuxer, try opening the original m2ts file to see if HB can handle it. I have one movie, War, that HB could only open from the original file, even though it has H.264 video and AC3 audio.

5. When it opens the file, click on the Apple TV preset, then modify the following settings to:

a. Leave the video set to Constant Quality of 60.78%.
b. Under Picture change Anamorphic to "none", check Keep aspect ratio, and increase to 1280 wide by whatever tall (to preserve aspect ratio).
c. Set frame rate to 24 fps if the file's native rate is more than 24 fps (some Blu-ray discs have higher or even variable frame rates and this can be determined in tsmuxer).
d. Select the Audio & Subtitles tab and choose the AC3 option for AAC DPLII for the first track and AC3 passthrough for the second track. If HB reads the DTS track, your option will only be AAC DPLII. Set Track 1 to AAC and set track 2 to None.

Note: If you want 1080p, leave the quality at 60.78% and set the width to 1920. Of course, this will not play on the Apple TV, but it will play in Plex and Quicktime/Front Row on a Mac. In addition, the Handbrake svn 2592 allows MKV containers with DTS passthrough for use with Plex. If the Blu-ray disc has DTS, then you should consider using this passthrough ability so as to get 5.1 surround sound (provided your receiver supports DTS).

Note 2: You can now convert DTS audio to AC3 Dolby Digital which can then be repackaged into an m4v container for the Apple TV. Have another read here. ​

6. Give the file a destination on your OS X volume. Let it start and run! The generated file will be an MPEG-4 H.264 as an m4v. My 3.2 gHz quad core hackintosh does a 720p movie in about 2.5 hours (final size of 5-6 gb).

^According to the directions that Cave Man has provided, I need to have BDinfo and tsMuxer.

I tried downloading BDinfo, but my download ends up being the Windows version. I am clicking on the OSX version, but it just isn't working for me.

When I tried downloading tsMuxer, it is not supported on Snow Leopard, just on Leopard.

So, am I stuck until these two programs are available or what?

I bought MakeMKV and when I clicked the Backup Disc button when extracting INCEPTION, I clicked on the Decrypt button also. Well, once I finished, it's not working on Handbrake. Under the STREAM file, there are still many multiple files, which is why I believe I need BDinfo to group all this information or to find the playlist for the movie.

I have the files of INCEPTION on my computer, I just can't really do much with it.

Does this mean I am stuck, or can someone help me bypass this?

 

[gunthermic]

No, I ripped Inception with MakeMKV(Backup) and Hand no problem usign HB to see it. Are you selecting The Main Folder or goign all the way down to the Stream Folder? Just select BMDV folder. It see's it just fine.

 

[Mr. Incredible]

No, I ripped Inception with MakeMKV(Backup) and Hand no problem usign HB to see it. Are you selecting The Main Folder or goign all the way down to the Stream Folder? Just select BMDV folder. It see's it just fine.

Ok, I just took a snapshot of my desktop.

When I used MakeMKV, I hit the Backup Disc button, and saved it on my Desktop. When it finished, I had 3 folders on my desktop (BDMV, CERTIFICATE, and MAKEMKV).

Now, When I'm opening Handbrake, I was at first clicking on BDMV, and then STREAM, and looking for the right File. But as I click on just BDMV and click OPEN, it still continues to say, "No Valid Source Found". I paid $50 for this, it should be working. What am I doing wrong?

If I click on BDMV, it has a bunch of other photos also. Hopefully, the snapshot I took of my desktop will help explain it better.

 

[gunthermic]

Ok, I just took a snapshot of my desktop.

When I used MakeMKV, I hit the Backup Disc button, and saved it on my Desktop. When it finished, I had 3 folders on my desktop (BDMV, CERTIFICATE, and MAKEMKV).

Now, When I'm opening Handbrake, I was at first clicking on BDMV, and then STREAM, and looking for the right File. But as I click on just BDMV and click OPEN, it still continues to say, "No Valid Source Found". I paid $50 for this, it should be working. What am I doing wrong?

If I click on BDMV, it has a bunch of other photos also. Hopefully, the snapshot I took of my desktop will help explain it better.

I just reopened mine and all is fine.

1. You ripping to your desktop, might be an issue. When I do a MakeMKV backup it creates a Main Folder called Inception. which of course contains the folders BDMV,Certificate etc under it. When going into HB I select the Inception folder. It then reads the Titles from the back up.

 

[roidy]

Ok, I just took a snapshot of my desktop.

When I used MakeMKV, I hit the Backup Disc button, and saved it on my Desktop. When it finished, I had 3 folders on my desktop (BDMV, CERTIFICATE, and MAKEMKV).

Now, When I'm opening Handbrake, I was at first clicking on BDMV, and then STREAM, and looking for the right File. But as I click on just BDMV and click OPEN, it still continues to say, "No Valid Source Found". I paid $50 for this, it should be working. What am I doing wrong?

If I click on BDMV, it has a bunch of other photos also. Hopefully, the snapshot I took of my desktop will help explain it better.

Can I just ask, why use the Backup Disk button at all? Why not just let MakeMKV do what it does best and extract the Blu-ray as a single mkv file that you can then encode in Handbrake.

 

[Mr. Incredible]

Ok, can someone please tell me what I'm doing wrong, besides saving it to my desktop and hitting the backup disc button?

For some reason, even after I bought MakeMKV, it still looks this. The options: Save Selected Titles, and Start Streaming Server are greyed out.

Should I delete my MakeMKV and reinstall it?

And can someone please give a step by step instructions on how do to this? Because for some reason, its not working for me, and I'm doing everything right.

Am I NOT supposed to click the Decrypt button when doing a disc backup?

Help, please. :[

EDIT:
Gunthermic, when i save the file, should i first create a separate folder on my desktop, and save it in that folder? Also, for some reason, it doesn't make a Main Folder called Inception. I just keep getting 3 folders.

Roidy, if i don't click on Backup Disk, than what should I click on? Because like I said, I bought it, but for some reason, 2 options (Save Selected Titles, and Start Streaming Server) are still in grey and I'm not allowed to use them.

 

[peterjcat]

You're supposed to click the big icon in the middle of the screen with the disc, the green arrow, and the hard drive. That will scan the disc and identify all the titles on it, and present them to you in a list. Unselect all of the titles except for the main feature, select the tracks you want (recommended that you unselect the lossless audio tracks and keep only the core DTS/DD tracks) and then go from there. You should end up with an MKV file that Handbrake will read easily.

 

[Mr. Incredible]

You're supposed to click the big icon in the middle of the screen with the disc, the green arrow, and the hard drive. That will scan the disc and identify all the titles on it, and present them to you in a list. Unselect all of the titles except for the main feature, select the tracks you want (recommended that you unselect the lossless audio tracks and keep only the core DTS/DD tracks) and then go from there. You should end up with an MKV file that Handbrake will read easily.

Thank you so much! I still need your help though. So, I clicked the large icon, and it did it stuff, and it has this box with these Titles. I'll post up a snapshot.

But it has a bunch of titles. The first 3 Titles, says 1 Chapter (333.8 MB), 14 Chapters (37.0 GB) and 14 Chapters (32.5 GB).

Do I just keep the first 3 checked, but uncheck the rest of the titles? BTW, I don't see any lossless audio tracks.

 

[peterjcat]

The movie will be either #2 or #3; I'm not sure what the difference is but if you click on either of them it should show you the running time in the window pane to the right. Inception is meant to be 2 hours 28 minutes, so whichever is closest to that should be right. Unselect everything apart from that one track. Then if you click on the little arrow to the very left of the checkbox it will expand that title into a list of tracks, which should include audio.

 

[Mr. Incredible]

The movie will be either #2 or #3; I'm not sure what the difference is but if you click on either of them it should show you the running time in the window pane to the right. Inception is meant to be 2 hours 28 minutes, so whichever is closest to that should be right. Unselect everything apart from that one track. Then if you click on the little arrow to the very left of the checkbox it will expand that title into a list of tracks, which should include audio.

Ok, it was #3, because #2 had a duration of over 3 hours, while the #3 had a duration of 2 hours and 28 minutes.

So, I unchecked everything except for #3, and I clicked the MakeMKV (little green arrow) button. For some reason, after I clicked it, it said that my file (Users/my name/Movies/Inception) was not found, and if I would like to create one. So I clicked yes, and now its doing its thing.

After I clicked on the little arrow though, it did not expand to a list of tracks of audio, it just started creating a MakeMKV file. This is fine, right?

This is what its doing now:

 

[peterjcat]

Yep that sounds like the right title.

You might have pressed the wrong arrow... I don't mean the green downward-pointing one to the right of the screen, I mean the black triangle to the left of every Title checkbox -- the triangle is pointing to the right but if you click it, it rotates to point down and reveals a further list of things.

What you'll end up with now is an MKV of the main movie with all of the audio and subtitle tracks etc intact, including lossless audio -- it could well work, depending on what version of Handbrake you're using, but at least in some recent Handbrakes lossless audio has caused some problems. You might want to stop the rip for now, try and find the right triangle/arrow and uncheck the lossless audio. It's worthwhile just having a poke around in the track listing to see what's there and get used to the kind of things you can expect.

 

[Mr. Incredible]

Yep that sounds like the right title.

You might have pressed the wrong arrow... I don't mean the green downward-pointing one to the right of the screen, I mean the black triangle to the left of every Title checkbox -- the triangle is pointing to the right but if you click it, it rotates to point down and reveals a further list of things.

What you'll end up with now is an MKV of the main movie with all of the audio and subtitle tracks etc intact, including lossless audio -- it could well work, depending on what version of Handbrake you're using, but at least in some recent Handbrakes lossless audio has caused some problems. You might want to stop the rip for now, try and find the right triangle/arrow and uncheck the lossless audio. It's worthwhile just having a poke around in the track listing to see what's there and get used to the kind of things you can expect.

The moment you said the wrong arrow, I canceled it, and I found what you meant. The only thing is, I don't know which Audio files to keep and which not to?

I assume that I don't need the Portuguese, Spanish, and French subtitles and forced only files, so I can UNCHECK those, right?

What else would I have to UNCHECK? Everything except for the Audio DTS 3/2 +1 English, right?

Here's a snapshot:

EDIT: Is this fine? Just having these 3 boxes Checked, and having the rest Unchecked?

 

[peterjcat]

That should be fine. Pay attention to the dialogue pane when it gets to the end of the rip -- if it says something like "Subtitle track X turned out to be empty and was removed" then there were no forced subtitles in the movie and you're good to go. If there WERE forced subtitles in the movie and you want to keep them, you'll have to do a bit more work to get the subtitles to work with Handbrake. Best to stick with movies without subtitles for now!

 

[Mr. Incredible]

That should be fine. Pay attention to the dialogue pane when it gets to the end of the rip -- if it says something like "Subtitle track X turned out to be empty and was removed" then there were no forced subtitles in the movie and you're good to go. If there WERE forced subtitles in the movie and you want to keep them, you'll have to do a bit more work to get the subtitles to work with Handbrake. Best to stick with movies without subtitles for now!

Hold up, so was I supposed to uncheck the subtitles/forced subtitles for english?

Will it not work like this, because I'm about 15 mins away from finishing this, and wouldn't want to start all over.

Also, I checked the right audio file, correct?

Audio DTS 3/2+1 English

^Thats the only one that I need to have checked, right?

 

[peterjcat]

Hold up, so was I supposed to uncheck the subtitles/forced subtitles for english?

Will it not work like this, because I'm about 15 mins away from finishing this, and wouldn't want to start all over.

Also, I checked the right audio file, correct?

Audio DTS 3/2+1 English

^Thats the only one that I need to have checked, right?

You did the right thing. There's no harm in leaving the subtitles checked, it's just that Handbrake will ignore them. If it turns out that you need them, then you'll need to split them out of the MKV you just made, and convert them.

 

[Mr. Incredible]

You did the right thing. There's no harm in leaving the subtitles checked, it's just that Handbrake will ignore them. If it turns out that you need them, then you'll need to split them out of the MKV you just made, and convert them.

To be honest, I don't really care about Subtitles, the only time I figured I'd need them is if I'm watching a movie late at night, and can't have the volume up too high.

If handbrake does convert the file to mp4 and ignores them, than everything is fine, right?

but, if I do need them, that means I have to do the MakeMKV process all over again?

 

[Mr. Incredible]

d. Select the Audio & Subtitles tab and choose the AC3 option for AAC DPLII for the first track and AC3 passthrough for the second track. If HB reads the DTS track, your option will only be AAC DPLII. Set Track 1 to AAC and set track 2 to None.

^For this option, Handbrake wont let me pick AC3, I can only choose between AAC (fauc) and AAC (CoreAudio).

This isn't a problem, is it?

 

[akiczek]

help with encoding time WAY WAY WAY to long and size to large!

I read all your tutorials and they are amazing. The one that I am currently using is the Blu-ray to Apple TV2. I follow all your directions perfectly and it works great. However, the handbrake part.

When I use CQ of 60.78%my final file is 3 -5 gbs. I would like to keep the files from 1.5gb to 2gb.

So I decided that I would use the target preset and let it go. I am converting a 2:45:14 long movie. When I picked target it took over 13 HOURS!

I tried on all three computers at my house and it takes forever here are my computers that I am using

Model Name: Mac mini aluminum
* Model Identifier: Macmini4,1
* Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
* Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
* Number Of Processors: 1
* Total Number Of Cores: 2
* L2 Cache: 3 MB
* Memory: 2 GB

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB

Model Name: iMac
* Model Identifier: iMac10,1
* Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
* Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
Memory: 4 GB

What about MKVtools? I tried using that but it took just a long and I was unable to get a specific size only bitrate!

What is a good setting to make a 720p or 1080p Blu-ray to play on my apple TV. I am currently using a 4TB WD HD and I use superduper to mirror it every night. My drobo was terrible so I had to sell it.

Basically, how do I get a excellent quality video with a 2gb size to play on my apple TV that wont take 13 hours to encode.

Thanks for all your help!