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Native Blu-ray ripping for OS X is finally here!

Scarpad said:
There is a way to get chapter markers but it's fairly involved I don't bother with it. For most disks, the audio is DTS so I have to use MakeMKV to make a .mkv files of the disk. I then use ClownDB to extract the DTS and convert it to a DD .AC3 file. I put that aside, then I convert the MKV using the Apple TV Preset in Handbrake 0.94. I convert it with no audio tracks just video. I take that .m4v file and I feed it into YAMB. I Add the .AC3 file also into YAMB and have it attache the vid and audio files and write out a New .m4v file. Put that in Itunes and I get a perfectly playable 1280x vid.
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Just an FYI for you since you are doing a whole lot of steps to get DTS to AC3. I did this yesterday and it works great, once you finish doing these scripts its just one easy terminal command to go from DTS to AC3 and just drag and drop the file into the terminal right after the command. Just remember to install X-code from you OS Install disc before you start to install the scripts.

http://www.lprestonsegoiii.com/2009/09/install-script-for-mkv-dts-to-ac3-snow-leopard/

I think this article should be a sticky on here since this is very useful information.
 
nando2323 said:
Yeah it comes in a very slim enclosure it's pretty much a laptop drive with a tray so you could not put it in the imac because of the tray.
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I ended up ordering this drive but still havent received it. Im getting a little worried about it too. I order it on the 7th. Nando, how long did it take you to get yours?
 
iMerlin said:
I ended up ordering this drive but still havent received it. Im getting a little worried about it too. I order it on the 7th. Nando, how long did it take you to get yours?
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It took like 3 weeks but I eventually got it. Just bug the guy to send you tracking info after I threatened to dispute with eBay he finally sent me the track info. But you ordered on the 7th so you're just over a week I waited like 2 weeks before I started to bug him.
 
nando2323 said:
It took like 3 weeks but I eventually got it. Just bug the guy to send you tracking info after I threatened to dispute with eBay he finally sent me the track info. But you ordered on the 7th so you're just over a week I waited like 2 weeks before I started to bug him.
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Gotchya. Thanks for the info. I sent him and email but havent reported anything yet. I guess Ill have to be a little more patient! Im not good at that.
 
nando2323 said:
It's prob interlaced and I don't think MakeMKV can de interlace, you would have to re-encode it in Handbrake and choose to de-interlace. This happens on TV Shows usually.
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I don't have HB infront of me, but wouldn't that do away with the .mkv format? Or would I be able to retain?
 
nando2323 said:
Just an FYI for you since you are doing a whole lot of steps to get DTS to AC3. I did this yesterday and it works great, once you finish doing these scripts its just one easy terminal command to go from DTS to AC3 and just drag and drop the file into the terminal right after the command. Just remember to install X-code from you OS Install disc before you start to install the scripts.

http://www.lprestonsegoiii.com/2009/09/install-script-for-mkv-dts-to-ac3-snow-leopard/

I think this article should be a sticky on here since this is very useful information.
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Most excellent. I've updated the first post of the Blu-ray to Apple TV thread to reflect this, as well as the first post of this thread.
 
Cave Man said:
Unless it's segmented, then he'll have to ID the playlist.
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Hey Cave Man....can you offer more insight or information on this? When the blu-ray rip is segmented and there isn't just 1 large m2ts file? I'm having that problem with Taken and I've been searching for the solution how to identify the correct .m2ts files and then merge them together in the correct order. I feel I've stumbled across that before on this forum, but I can't find the freaking thread again. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
 
You need to find the playlist and open it in tsmuxer. The playlists are listed in a folder called PLAYLISTS. It's usually the longest duration and can be found using BDInfo under Windows after ripping with AnyDVD HD. When you open that playlist with tsmuxer, it will assemble the m2ts files into a single m2ts (or ts) file. If you don't have Windows you'll have to scan and guess with tsmuxer.
 
Cave Man said:
You need to find the playlist and open it in tsmuxer. The playlists are listed in a folder called PLAYLISTS. It's usually the longest duration and can be found using BDInfo under Windows after ripping with AnyDVD HD. When you open that playlist with tsmuxer, it will assemble the m2ts files into a single m2ts (or ts) file. If you don't have Windows you'll have to scan and guess with tsmuxer.
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Since I've already ripped the disk with Any DVD HD onto my hard-drive, can I now use BDInfo? Or does BDInfo just work with Blu Ray discs? My Blu-rays are in storage and I'd really not like to go and have to root through all my crap to find them again.

Edit: Never mind. I'm retarded. I just re-read your post and it says AFTER RIPPING WITH. Man my reading comprehension blows.
 
I'm curious what people do with the DTS-HD or TrueHD audio? I think its been discussed here that MakeMKV disregards that audio track. And can't an MKV container not support those audio tracks anyways? If someone wants to keep the blu-ray movie as intact as possible, you just have to leave it as an .m2ts and play it either on the computer or through some other media streamer. What do people here do for their rips when they want to keep the DTS-HD or TrueHD audio track intact?
 
fridgeymonster3 said:
I'm curious what people do with the DTS-HD or TrueHD audio? I think its been discussed here that MakeMKV disregards that audio track.
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It doesn't disregard it, it extracts the DTS or AC3 Dolby Digital cores from DTS-HD or True-HD tracks.

And can't an MKV container not support those audio tracks anyways?
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Not to my knowledge.

If someone wants to keep the blu-ray movie as intact as possible, you just have to leave it as an .m2ts and play it either on the computer or through some other media streamer. What do people here do for their rips when they want to keep the DTS-HD or TrueHD audio track intact?
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There's no way to get HD audio from your Mac to a receiver. That would require HDMI or a DisplayPort with HD audio, neither of which is available on Macs. You'd have to use USB or something else to get it to your receiver. The optical port can only handle AC3 or DTS up to 5.1.
 
Cave Man said:
It doesn't disregard it, it extracts the DTS or AC3 Dolby Digital cores from DTS-HD or True-HD tracks.

There's no way to get HD audio from your Mac to a receiver. That would require HDMI or a DisplayPort with HD audio, neither of which is available on Macs. You'd have to use USB or something else to get it to your receiver. The optical port can only handle AC3 or DTS up to 5.1.
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Ok, so Make MKV basically down converts the audio by only taking out the DTS track and not the entire DTS-HD track? I slap my files onto a USB drive hooked up to a WD Live TV that is run into my Onkyo 605 receiver that handles the audio. I'm trying to keep the files as small as possible as of now, my 7.1 setup has turned into a freaking 3 channel setup since i've moved so no need for the HD audio as of right now, but I just want to plan for the future.
 
Cave Man said:
It doesn't disregard it, it extracts the DTS or AC3 Dolby Digital cores from DTS-HD or True-HD tracks.



Not to my knowledge.



There's no way to get HD audio from your Mac to a receiver. That would require HDMI or a DisplayPort with HD audio, neither of which is available on Macs. You'd have to use USB or something else to get it to your receiver. The optical port can only handle AC3 or DTS up to 5.1.
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Will Plex read .m2t files then? I thought Plex could read and on the fly down-convert DTS-HD or True-HD to DTS or DD 5.1?

I realize currently the Mac can't send this native singals (HD audio codecs), but I was hoping this method would retain them so in the event there is a way within the next year that your files would already have the HD audio. This method (MakeMKV) makes it sound like you'd have to go back and redo them if you wanted those files.
 
Blu-Ray on Mac

Hi, I'm new. I was just looking for a way to play the Blu-Ray disc I just burned on my Lacie Blu-Ray writer using Toast 10 with the Blu-Ray plugin. My disc played on my regular player at home, but it wouldn't launch on my Mac here today until I found the .m2ts file mentioned in the forum. It plays great and it's on my older MacPro with OS 10.5.8. I'm using the Video Player feature in Toast. I haven't tried it on my newer Snow Leopard machine yet. The burning was simple and painless.
 
Blu-Ray on Mac

I just tried playing my BR disc on my MacPro with Snow Leopard. QT 10 grays out the m2ts files, QT 7 Pro sees the files but doesn't recognize them as a movie file. Once again Toast Titanium 10's video player plays the movie, but there's no auto play feature. You have to open the file manually.
Hope this helps someone.

Mac Pro quad 3.2GHz, 16GB ram, Nvidea Quadro FX 5600, OS 10.6.2. 30"Apple display, 24" Lacie 321 monitor
 
Ive been running all my M2TS files right through Plex and Im very pleased with the performance. I love the Plex interface but the navigation is a little off IMO.

But from keeping up with this thread, Im starting to think my work flow is inefficient. I finally received that BD drive I ordered off of ebay, the link is in this thread somewhere. Ordered on the 7th and got it today. Either way, I rip the iso with AnyDVD HD, then BD Info it to find the playlist, then mux is with TSMuxer, then I have the m2ts file to playback in Plex, but here is my issue... how do I get it to playback on my PS3? I was loading the m2ts file into Handbrake then converting them to an MPeg4 to load onto my USB drive. This is working ok, but the quality somewhat degrades and the audio is only 5.1...

With this all said, is my only option to hardwire the PS3 to stream the m2ts file to my PS3?
 
iMerlin said:
Ive been running all my M2TS files right through Plex and Im very pleased with the performance. I love the Plex interface but the navigation is a little off IMO.

But from keeping up with this thread, Im starting to think my work flow is inefficient. I finally received that BD drive I ordered off of ebay, the link is in this thread somewhere. Ordered on the 7th and got it today. Either way, I rip the iso with AnyDVD HD, then BD Info it to find the playlist, then mux is with TSMuxer, then I have the m2ts file to playback in Plex, but here is my issue... how do I get it to playback on my PS3? I was loading the m2ts file into Handbrake then converting them to an MPeg4 to load onto my USB drive. This is working ok, but the quality somewhat degrades and the audio is only 5.1...

With this all said, is my only option to hardwire the PS3 to stream the m2ts file to my PS3?
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I may be wrong but I believe you can load the M2TS file on to your PS3 hard drive via PS3 Media Server. Of course that takes up a lot of room so loading it onto an external drive would probably be the best option.
 
Dapness said:
I may be wrong but I believe you can load the M2TS file on to your PS3 hard drive via PS3 Media Server. Of course that takes up a lot of room so loading it onto an external drive would probably be the best option.
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Copy it over to the PS3? Or stream it? I need to hardwire my PS3 stat.
I think Ive seen people using TVersity, is that the usual selection?
 
How easy/difficult is it to encode a BD movie into a file that can be edited with iMovie? A lot of this thread is dedicated to BD playback without needing to have the physical disc, but I'd like to have for BD what Handbrake gives me for DVDs-- put the disc in, select what you want to rip, and tell it to make you an mpg/AVI/m4v file.
 
I'm having issues with makemkv. I haven't been able to rip a bluray yet and I seem to be having issues opening the disc to select what i want ripped. It seems to read ok but when it goes to open it starts the progress bar but after a couple minutes it goes back to the main screen and says theres no disc. not sure if i needed to do anything special. i have a lg bluray burner running on 10.6.2 on a mbp.

thanks
 
So I went ahead and hard wired my PS3. Googled a couple of streaming options and discovered MediaLink as well as PS3 Media Server. I couldnt get PS3 media server to work for some reason but I didnt have much time for troubleshooting. Ill leave that for tonight after work.
I did get MediaLink to work, but only for select M2TS files. None of my MKVs worked but I think thats normal with MediaLink. Hence the need to troubleshoot PS3 Media Server as I understand it will play the MKVs.

So, with all that said... once I rip the BD with MakeMKV and have my MKV file, how can I get an M2TS out of this? I loaded it into TSMuxer but TSmuxer didnt like that very much. Am I doing something wrong?

EDIT: Going with PS3 Media Server. I figured out what I was doing wrong and got PS3MS to work. It streams MKVs perfectly. No need for the M2ts.
 
godslabrat said:
How easy/difficult is it to encode a BD movie into a file that can be edited with iMovie? A lot of this thread is dedicated to BD playback without needing to have the physical disc, but I'd like to have for BD what Handbrake gives me for DVDs-- put the disc in, select what you want to rip, and tell it to make you an mpg/AVI/m4v file.
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should be easy tbh.

1. use makemkv to rip the movie to a .mkv file
2. check if imovie can read .mkv files (i have an old imovie but im pretty sure it cant read .mkv).
3. if imovie cant read .mkv, use handbrake and try to make it as high quality as you can (passthrough etc).
4. edit in imovie.
 
iMerlin said:
So I went ahead and hard wired my PS3. Googled a couple of streaming options and discovered MediaLink as well as PS3 Media Server. I couldnt get PS3 media server to work for some reason but I didnt have much time for troubleshooting. Ill leave that for tonight after work.
I did get MediaLink to work, but only for select M2TS files. None of my MKVs worked but I think thats normal with MediaLink. Hence the need to troubleshoot PS3 Media Server as I understand it will play the MKVs.

So, with all that said... once I rip the BD with MakeMKV and have my MKV file, how can I get an M2TS out of this? I loaded it into TSMuxer but TSmuxer didnt like that very much. Am I doing something wrong?

EDIT: Going with PS3 Media Server. I figured out what I was doing wrong and got PS3MS to work. It streams MKVs perfectly. No need for the M2ts.
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Glad you got it figured out. Did you have to force the IP address in PS3 Media Server?

I used that program for a short period of time before finally ditching my PS3 for a Mac Mini running Plex. I was doing the same thing you are ripping Blu-rays with Make MKV and then trying to play them on the PS3 via PS3 Media Server. I kept getting "File Errors" on quite a few of my MKVs. After trying to resolve the problem I finally said screw it and bought the Mini which hasn't given me any issues at all. If you run into a similar issue do you think you could reply? I'm really curious if it was just my issue or if anyone else has had a similar problem.
 
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