Thanks for the info., I'm always looking for ideas about the best way to go about doing this. I ripped one of my blurays recently with AnyDVD to files and whereas usually there is one "large" file which is obviously the movie, in this case, there were multiple files all around 20-30 minutes long and all around the same size. I usually use Ripbot to create the .mkv files - but in this case, I'm not sure if I would be able to because Ripbot just wants to be pointed to the largest file usually and I don't believe it allows for multiple files which this case would require...but it's been awhile since I've converted to .mkv. Recently I'm just keeping the folders with the files in them. What do you think is the best way to deal with this?
My playback device is a PS3, so there's two limitations that I have to work around. First, the PS3 doesn't support .mkv files so I prefer an .m2ts file to an .mkv. Secondly, PS3 will not stream VC-1 video tracks, so I have to run them through Ripbot and convert the video to AVC.
If you are just trying to rip the movie, here's what I do and it works 100% of the time.... so far <crosses finger.
1 - AnyDVD HD running in the background
2 - Open the BR in BDinfo and identify the largest
playlist, rather than the largest file. A lot of Blu-Rays now divide the movie up into several video files as an added copy protection, but if you look for the largest playlist you'll be good to go.
3 - Open the playlist in TsMuxer and select the video stream and pick the correct audio stream. I don't have the equipment to decode DTS or DTS-HD audio, so I check the
Downconvert HD Audio and it will extract the normal DTS track.
4a - Click
M2TS Muxing, pick your destination folder and about 30-40 minutes later you'll have an .m2ts file that will play back or import to almost anything.
---------or (because my setup can't decode DTS)----------
4b - Demux the video and DTS streams to a temp folder. Then convert the DTS stream to 640kb 5.1 AC3 with MeGui. Remux the video and new audio stream to an .m2ts file. Done. If I'm gonna run it through Ripbot264 to decrease the size anyway, I'll just skip this step and do Step 4a instead, letting Ripbot take care of the audio conversion.