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mrbonesSTL
21st July 2011, 23:09
So I have tried to rip a few blu-ray movies to .iso with AnyDVD HD and the ripping part works fine. But when I extract from the iso to get to the m2ts files, the main (large) movie file also has commentary audio, not the movie audio. Am I doing something wrong here? Please help. I'm using (trying) meGUI to encode.

hello_hello
22nd July 2011, 05:22
I don't have an answer to your problem as such but you do seem to me to be going about it the "long" way.

I don't use AnyDVD to rip the movie, I just have it running in the background decrypting the disc. Then I use MeGUI's HD Streams Extractor to extract the required video and audio streams directly from the disc. The largest m2ts file on the disc will probably be the one to extract. You can check you have the right one by playing it first, and using a player such as MPC-HC you should be able to identify which audio tracks are which. If in doubt, extract all of them. The HD Streams Extractor will extract the video to an MKV file.

Doing it the way you're doing it, you're creating an ISO file from which you have to extract the m2ts file and then you'll probably have to extract the video and audio from the m2ts file anyway, as you shouldn't really try to encode an m2ts file directly, so you're probably increasing the preparation time by up to 300%.

If you want to use AnyDVD for ripping.... doesn't it have an option to just rip the video without creating an ISO? If you're extracting in order to re-encode, creating an ISO is probably pointless.

PS. The m2ts files you've already extracted via an ISO, if you still have them check to make sure they don't actually contain more than one audio track. You can use the MeGUI's HD Streams Extractor for that, or maybe by playing the m2ts file with MPC-HC and using the Play/Audio menu to see if there's multiple audio streams. If you still have those ISO or m2ts files and they contain the wrong audio, use the HD Streams Extractor to extract the video from them, then extract the correct audio track from the disc. No point in extracting the video from the disc again if you already have it.