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

As much as I might to splurge for a Blu-Ray drive, I think I am going to work until the Apple TV finally gets an update. I really don't want to spend a long time encoding to 720p when it seems like an Apple TV update is on the horizon. 1080p should be coming within the year, so I think I will make the switch once.
 
dynaflash said:
1. try the 64 bit version as its about 10 - 15% faster than 32 bit.
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10 - 15% wow, gotta try and work out how to compile the 64 bit one :D

On a side note is there a way on OS X to turn DTS to AC3 as there are lots of solutions on Windows but is there anything on OS X?
 
Cave Man said:
Tried it but it did not work. Strangely, I tried posting my results to the Handbrake thread you ref'd, but it does not seem to show up after I posted it. Is that thread restricted?
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Just checked Cave. I see you're reply in that thread. Shouldn't be restricted.
 
DoFoT9 said:
hmm i dont know... is the Pentium M processor in the :appleTV capable of playing it?? (can the GPU help anyway in this?).

did a bit of researching:: found this (post #6) and apparently the :apple:TV can play up to 25mbit mpegs.. pretty darn good.
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GPU and VDPAU is my guess
 
xxBURT0Nxx said:
You will have to find an enclosure for that though, which the cheapest i found was $25. If you look above for my posts, I linked to a standard sized bluray drive for like $85 and then you can get an enclosure for that for like $10, both prices including shipping.
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It says "USB 2.0 Slim External Drive" in the name.
 
I've used this for awhile to make .mkv to play on my Western Digital DVD from Blu Rays, it works fine
 
The atv does not have the reported Sigma chip. that was FUD. It does of course have the nvidia GeforceGo 7300 w/ 64 mb of ram which is capable of decoding 1080p h.264 ... to some degree. To what extent apple is offloading decoding to that gpu ... hard to tell imho.
 
zedsdead said:
As much as I might to splurge for a Blu-Ray drive, I think I am going to work until the Apple TV finally gets an update. I really don't want to spend a long time encoding to 720p when it seems like an Apple TV update is on the horizon. 1080p should be coming within the year, so I think I will make the switch once.
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For me, 720p is the sweet spot between quality and file size, even if Apple TV gets an update.

I will always have my disks available to pop in if and when I want to watch them in 1080p. Right now, I do not see the difference in resolution a concern, heck, I don't even see a disadvantage when watching a 720p encoded blu-ray/HDDVD on my Apple TV. It just looks amazing on my 1080p tv and projector.

A 720p mp4 file at about 6gigs will leave me plenty of room in my hard drive. Just imagine, a 1TB drive can contain about 150-160 720p movies.
 
Cave Man said:
Just to be clear, it does not transcode but instead rewraps the video and audio into an MKV container. Transcoding would be time-consuming (many hours) and lossy on the video. The only modification it does is the extraction of DTS and AC3 cores from the HD audio tracks (if present).
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Sorry to open this again Cave Man but I'm confused. This is straight from the Makemkv site:

MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere. MakeMKV is a format converter, otherwise called "transcoder".

Who's right?
 
donster28 said:
For me, 720p is the sweet spot between quality and file size, even if Apple TV gets an update.

I will always have my disks available to pop in if and when I want to watch them in 1080p. Right now, I do not see the difference in resolution a concern, heck, I don't even see a disadvantage when watching a 720p encoded blu-ray/HDDVD on my Apple TV. It just looks amazing on my 1080p tv and projector.

A 720p mp4 file at about 6gigs will leave me plenty of room in my hard drive. Just imagine, a 1TB drive can contain about 150-160 720p movies.
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+1. Excellent post
 
dynaflash said:
The atv does not have the reported Sigma chip. that was FUD. It does of course have the nvidia GeforceGo 7300 w/ 64 mb of ram which is capable of decoding 1080p h.264 ... to some degree. To what extent apple is offloading decoding to that gpu ... hard to tell imho.
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Yeah, the rumor I heard was from the XBMC side. Guess we'll have to wait and see (rumors are a month or so..).
 
northy124 said:
On a side note is there a way on OS X to turn DTS to AC3 as there are lots of solutions on Windows but is there anything on OS X?
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This was answered earlier in this thread, but may be difficult to find at this point. You can do it in OSX - try googling "mkvdts2ac3.sh" - it works really well.
 
donster28 said:
Sorry to open this again Cave Man but I'm confused. This is straight from the Makemkv site:

MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere. MakeMKV is a format converter, otherwise called "transcoder".

Who's right?
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Cave Man said:
To me, transcoding is re-encoding the video, which Make MKV doesn't do. It simply extracts the audio and video files from the m2ts container and puts them into an MKV container ("remuxing"). Transcoding is a lossy process (which is what Handbrake does).
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MakeMKV's website is correct, but Cave Man is partially correct too. Re-encoding is always transcoding, but transcoding is not always re-encoding.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcode said:
In true transcoding, the bitstream format of one file is changed from one to another without its undergoing another complete decoding and encoding process. This usually is possible if the source and target codecs are sufficiently similar. However, support for this process very much depends on the case.

The most popular method of transcoding is to decode the original data to an intermediate format (i.e. PCM for audio or YUV for video), in a way that still contains the content of the original, and then encoding the resulting file into the target format.
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I think that "recontainering" would be a better word though ;)
 
Using my newly arrived LG 8X drive and MKV, the bd ripped quick. Sexy quick. Now my 2.4ghz MBP and HB is whimpering under the strain at this 6 frames per second, 11 hour task -- using the higher 1280 pixel setting and the new HB blu-ray version... 2.5 hr movie... I have 2 ghz Imac dual core that I'll set up to do these tasks... maybe I can rip 1 a day. It's all good.

I just checked it and found the time projection has reduced to 10.5 hrs!:D

It will be interesting to see the results on the 52" Samsung.
 
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