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

Good Job

pprior said:
This is what I've been waiting for.

Please post if you have an external (FW) burner that works.
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Agreed, great work guys, can you please post your drives hubs ect. so that we can get a general idea of what is confirmed to work.
What i'm getting now is all it needs is any type of disc burning. Any known limitation on the connections? I'm guessing usb works, what about firewire, esata?
Newegg has some good deals on drives for a little under $100. But i'de like to know its going to work with my mac before spending that much.
 
REK said:
Agreed, great work guys, can you please post your drives hubs ect. so that we can get a general idea of what is confirmed to work.
What i'm getting now is all it needs is any type of disc burning. Any known limitation on the connections? I'm guessing usb works, what about firewire, esata?
Newegg has some good deals on drives for a little under $100. But i'de like to know its going to work with my mac before spending that much.
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First, heartfelt thanks to all who have stayed on top of this technology. Next, REK: "any type of disc burning..." it's my understanding that anyone who uses this rip software will need a blu-ray disc drive. Is your point that the blu-ray drive is a burner?
 
I mentioned ealier in this thread the LG B06LU10 works well. It's USB and I have it plugged directly into my iMac dual core (not using a hub).

MakeMKV rips the blu-ray directly to an MKV file. You can then use handbrake to encode for AppleTV. For some movies you will still need to covert the DTS sound to AC3 to maintain surround sound.
 
jmpg said:
For some movies you will still need to covert the DTS sound to AC3 to maintain surround sound.
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Is that something HB will do, or something that another bit of software is needed for?

I've waited personally until 1 or at most 2 pieces of software is needed to do this. I can handle ripping to a temp directory and then HB encodes, but more than that with looking for large files and demuxing and all that and my head starts to swim.....
 
zedsdead said:
The HD DVD side of the program apparently does not work, and they do not plan on fixing it either.

Have you tried running the Dark Knight through Handbrake?
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If it doesn't work then the website shouldn't advertise it as a feature! I have not tried running it through Handbrake; I didn't buy high-def movies so that I could downconvert them ;)

Cave Man said:
Can you try running those titles that ripped through Plex or XBMC? They have the best playback algorithms I've seen on the Mac side. VLC has trouble with straight Blu-ray rips, too.
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Plex appears to work. Is there a way to get the Plex codecs into a "normal" player? Or some way to set it up so that double-clicking an MKV in Finder will get Plex to play it directly?

REK said:
Agreed, great work guys, can you please post your drives hubs ect. so that we can get a general idea of what is confirmed to work.
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I'm using an LG GGW-H20L (SATA).
 
pprior said:
Is that something HB will do, or something that another bit of software is needed for?

I've waited personally until 1 or at most 2 pieces of software is needed to do this. I can handle ripping to a temp directory and then HB encodes, but more than that with looking for large files and demuxing and all that and my head starts to swim.....
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Look on google for mkvdts2ac3.sh. You should be able to find a couple tutorials. You can convert the dts to ac3 and add it back into your MKV (all on a Mac) before converting for AppleTV in Handbrake.
 
I just want to get these in DVD quality (720x480) so I can use them on my computer or iPhone. Are any of you guys trying to go for that type of quality, or is it all HD you're going for?

One of these days, maybe the video industries will realize that most of us just want to duplicate it for personal use just like people rip CDs in iTunes. All the copyrighting does is keep legit users from doing this stuff, because the black market people will find a way around any copy protection.
 
Nermal said:
Plex appears to work. Is there a way to get the Plex codecs into a "normal" player? Or some way to set it up so that double-clicking an MKV in Finder will get Plex to play it directly?
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Try MPEG Streamclip. It uses ffmpeg just like Plex.

Michael CM1 said:
I just want to get these in DVD quality (720x480) so I can use them on my computer or iPhone. Are any of you guys trying to go for that type of quality, or is it all HD you're going for?
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Yes, just pass it through Handbrake and use one of the presets depending on your target device.
 
Cave Man said:
Try MPEG Streamclip. It uses ffmpeg just like Plex.



Yes, just pass it through Handbrake and use one of the presets depending on your target device.
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I agree. For SD, Handbrake already has an almost perfect solution.
 
Cave Man, you say that Plex uses ffmpeg, but there must be more to it because I can play certain videos with Plex that I can't with generic build of ffmpeg.

This is great news though. I might finally make the move to BD :D
 
pprior said:
<--- head starting to swim....
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I realize using mkvdts2ac3.sh isn't a great solution for the masses. Just FYI - roughly half of my blu-rays I've been able to use MakeMKV and go directly to handbrake using ac3 passthrough. You could still do that for MKV's that only have DTS sound if you're okay with DPLII sound.

Hopefully someday AppleTV will allow DTS passthrough. I wouldn't mind skipping that step myself.
 
So the 3GS won't support these in their native bit rate and resolution? I know the specs are the same as the 1g/3G, but I was hoping it was a 'hidden' feature since other or forthcoming devices (e.g. Zune HD) will be able to play back HD content. Bummer.
 
Any enclosure recommendations for that LG drive (or any)? I'd love you be able to back-up my blu rays with my mbp... then I can ditch the ps3 and just use the apple tv.
 
JonHimself said:
Any enclosure recommendations for that LG drive (or any)? I'd love you be able to back-up my blu rays with my mbp... then I can ditch the ps3 and just use the apple tv.
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I have this enclosing my LG GGW-H20L and it works great! I have it connected via USB to my 13" MBP. It's not the most slim enclosure but it's built like a tank. And it's not that heavy either.

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http://www.vantecusa.com/front/product/view_detail/293

I had it for about 6 months now in the hopes that it'll be useful one day. And the day had come! Thank you, thank you, thank you. :)
 
Great suggestions guys! Thanks. I was looking on CanadaComputers.com (there's one near me) but had no idea what I was looking for... 5.25" enclosure.

Hopefully I'll be able to try this out tomorrow and can report back.

CaveMan.. is the ROM compatibility problem only a problem if there is no writing (cd, dvd or bd)? That's how I interpreted your previous post... as long as the drive writes SOMETHING then it will work (ie the above-mentioned LG).
 
JonHimself said:
CaveMan.. is the ROM compatibility problem only a problem if there is no writing (cd, dvd or bd)? That's how I interpreted your previous post... as long as the drive writes SOMETHING then it will work (ie the above-mentioned LG).
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That's what the support page at MakeMKV. The drive has to write something, even if it's just a CD or DVD burner and only a Blu-ray ROM drive. My problem is my drive reads Blu-ray, DVD and CD discs, but does not write to any of them.
 
JonHimself said:
Great suggestions guys! Thanks. I was looking on CanadaComputers.com (there's one near me) but had no idea what I was looking for... 5.25" enclosure.

Hopefully I'll be able to try this out tomorrow and can report back.

CaveMan.. is the ROM compatibility problem only a problem if there is no writing (cd, dvd or bd)? That's how I interpreted your previous post... as long as the drive writes SOMETHING then it will work (ie the above-mentioned LG).
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That's where I got mine (Canada Computers). They should still have them and yes, look for the 5.25" enclosure. The more connection options the better.

And yes the LG GGW H20L (supports Bluray and HD-DVD) player and recorder WILL WORK! I've done my encoding to MKV today with great success. It took about 50 minutes on my new MBP 13". Handbrake on the other hand took 6 hours to encode to an Apple TV mp4 file (720p).
 
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