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Leopard tsmuxer now available

Wow this is great news... I still need to use eac3to on the Windows side for a few things (I think), but this is yet another obstacle out of the way!
 
Why does all this stuff have to be so complicated. I rip my neighbors dvds and watch them then delete them and that is super easy.

Can someone please explain how I would go about doing this?

1. rip the blu ray with anydvd hd
2. take the files and make an .mkv with makemkv (googled for blu ray to mkv and that showed up, seems pretty good)


that's what I see as the simplest way to do it but this but I know its a lot more complicated.

All I want to do is take a blu ray disc and make a file so i can play it in 1080p on my computer. I don't care if the file is 20 gigs or w/e. I just want it in full hd.
 
Cave Man said:
All you need to do is step 1 (rip with AnyDVD HD) and it's ready for playback on your Mac using Plex.
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Ok cool I didn't know that, thanks man.

But lets say I want to take a blu ray, convert to .mkv, and put that .mkv on an external hard drive? I'm now researching the Wd hd tv and popcorn hour for streaming purposes once I get this figured out.
 
Cave Man said:
I'm not sure as I don't do mkv's. Handbrake will do them (i.e., AnyDVD HD to HB to mkv), but I've never use it for this. Is there a particular reason you need the movie in this container?
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no there's no particular reason. so what other codecs can i get full 1080p in? I don't care about file size, just the quality. So handbrake would take the VOB (or whatever kinds of files there are on BD) and have them stay full 1080p?
 
jakerules133 said:
no there's no particular reason. so what other codecs can i get full 1080p in? I don't care about file size, just the quality. So handbrake would take the VOB (or whatever kinds of files there are on BD) and have them stay full 1080p?
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The best quality you'll get is to use the m2ts container straight off of the Blu-ray rip. Inside this container will be the video (in H.264 AVC, MPEG-2 or VC-1) and audio (usually in DTS/DTS-HD and sometimes AC3 Dolby Digital or True-HD). The reason this is the best is because you don't have to transcode it (i.e., reencode). On Macs, a few apps can play these files. Plex and XBMC are the best with fewest dropped frames and transcoding of DTS-HD or True-HD down to DTS or DD on-the-fly so that it can be sent out the optical port to your receiver. VLC can also play Blu-ray rips, but it's not as efficient.

The next best quality is to use Handbrake to transcode to any of a number of containers, including MP4 and MKV. This requires a transcode of the Blu-ray video (usually to H.264) and you can get AC3 Dolby Digital, but not DTS, 5.1 audio for passthrough of the optical port.
 
Cave Man said:
The best quality you'll get is to use the m2ts container straight off of the Blu-ray rip. Inside this container will be the video (in H.264 AVC, MPEG-2 or VC-1) and audio (usually in DTS/DTS-HD and sometimes AC3 Dolby Digital or True-HD). The reason this is the best is because you don't have to transcode it (i.e., reencode). On Macs, a few apps can play these files. Plex and XBMC are the best with fewest dropped frames and transcoding of DTS-HD or True-HD down to DTS or DD on-the-fly so that it can be sent out the optical port to your receiver. VLC can also play Blu-ray rips, but it's not as efficient.

The next best quality is to use Handbrake to transcode to any of a number of containers, including MP4 and MKV. This requires a transcode of the Blu-ray video (usually to H.264) and you can get AC3 Dolby Digital, but not DTS, 5.1 audio for passthrough of the optical port.
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so what would be the steps to getting the m2ts file?
 
gugy said:
That's the part I don't like. I really do not want to install Windows on my Mac.
I guess I will have to wait and hope AnyDVD HD will have a Mac version soon. :(
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I'm hoping that the guys at RipIt bring this feature out in the future, they've expressed interest in doing so on their forums, so who knows?! :)
 
wow. so is everyone doing this with an external blu-ray drive? or on a pc with a blu-ray drive (that came with the blu-ray drive)

i probably could install a blu-ray drive in my mac pro, but not sure if i want to do that just yet
 
I do all of this on a quad core Vista machine that is used for nothing but DVD/BluRay ripping via AnyDVD HD and/or Clone DVD
 
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