compressing bluray and hddvd to mkv container

[ymee]

Folks,

Newbie here so please bear with me. I would like to take a 40-50GB ISO copy of a bluray or hddvd disc (ISO copy has encryption removed via anydvdhd) and compress is to a single MKV file with only the main movie so that it is around 10GB in size or so. Is there a guide for doing this or an automated tool? Will AutoMKV work?

Would appreciate some pointers.

Thanks

[darbid]

I am also new to this. I have spent a little time reading here and it seems that first you have to take the main m2ts file and **mux it to a ts...here.... Then I am lost as to what method to use, there seem to be many many ways to play with it, but no one click method yet.....

Would anyone like to make a little summary of the methods or point to the thread that has it?

[breez25]

Hi,

I'm neither an encoding pro and i also don't have experience in encoding HD DVD or Blu-Ray (no drive :(), but here's a guide i found, maybe it helps. :)

http://66.197.142.137/forums/showthread.php?t=19561

[Atak_Snajpera]

Did you try RipBot264 for Bluray files.

[Zow]

Did you try RipBot264 for Bluray files.

Didn't realize RipBot did Blu-Ray:-) Great!

Does it do subtitles?

[Atak_Snajpera]

not yet :(

[Zow]

not yet :(

Please "atak" it:-) Subtitles are important to those of us who are slow-witted and not polyglots:p

...I know it's a hard issue, but hopefully someone will soon figure out a user-friendly way to do it.

[Atak_Snajpera]

Subtitles are important to those of us who are slow-witted and not polyglots

You don't have to tell me :) It will be added as soon as TSMuxer adds support for subtitles.

[calyx]

So this thread kind of hits on what I want to do.

Basically, I own an HD-DVD player (Toshiba HD-A35), and as a test I converted several h264 mkv files to DVD (ifo/vob format) using convertxtodvd (which did an awesome, smooth job with nice clean menus). Then made an iso of these using DVDShrink. These files were 720p with Dolby Digital 5.1, and they looked fantastic upscaled to 1080p on my Sharp Aquos.

So what would be the most simple route and/or the best route in your opions of course, for taking a Blu-ray movie (that I own of course), ripping it with AnyDVD HD, converting it into an mkv format with the best quality audio and video (even if that means TrueHD and only 720p and not 1080p) into an h264 mkv file of an approximate size that I can then convert into standard DVD movie format with convertxtodvd. I'd rather of course keep the true 1080p resolution, but 780p upscaled to 1080p still looks better than many SD DVDs upscaled based on preliminary testing.

My goal here is to maintain video at a higher quality than what I would get from a SD DVD, and retain one higher quality audio format (TrueHD > DTS HD > DTS > Dolby Digital 5.1), no subtitles or menus needed, and be able to burn the resulting iso to a DVD9 so I can watch it on my Sharp Aquos 42" and use my 7.1 surround system.

I can of course watch HD-DVDs and Blu-ray discs on my pc already with this LG drive, as my video card is HDCP compliant (EVGA 8800 GTX 768mb), and my monitor is as well (Samsung 22" 226BW), so if I want to watch the extra content I will still be able to do so.

But I want to be able to watch them on my TV with ease, and I don't want to go the HTPC route really right now, as I will always need more storage, which means more harddrives and more harddrives, and would rather have them in a format that's relatively cheap and doesn't take more drive bays and so on.

So far, the software I know I will need (and have) are AnyDVD HD, convertxtodvd, Nero 7 Ultimate, DVDDecrypter (still my fav program for burning isos to DVD5/9), DVDShrink (for converting these vob/ifo files from convertx to an iso ), PowerDVD Ultimate (as it supports HD-DVD/Bluray/h264/mkv for viewing on PC), and as for codecs I have Matroska codec via Haali Media Splitter, XviD and DivX of course also, and I have AC3Filter installed.

I've recently added Ripbot264 to my list, as this was mentioned in this thread for ripping Blu-ray to mkv.

What other software would I need? I don't want to do a ton of scripting/modifying variables, I'm more of a 1-click type of guy, but I don't mind doing some minor tweaking if need be.

Although some might say its just not gonna be possible while retaining HD quality, based on my testing of 3 hours of content in 720p, upconverted to 1080p with Dolby Digital 5.1, all on one DVD5, I think converting just the movie and 1 high quality audio track to something that will fit on a DVD9 should be feasible and still look way better than SD DVDs.

Any advice/tips/pointing at other threads would be of great help.

I'm also going to make a separate thread posing these same questions once I can figure out what the appropriate forum would be.

[QUEENFAN]

@calyx

Seems you have the same intentions (and equipment) like me.
Before I'll buy a Full-HD LCD-TV, I'd like to be able to convert HD-DVD and Blueray to x264 in a mkv-container with AC3 audio and 720p achieving the best possible quality with maximum compression.

Right now I don't see any advantage in converting DVD to mkv because the Toshiba does a good upscaling job displaying a DVD with superb quality on a LCD (HDMI-connection).

But curious as I am I want to bo able to encode different sources (DVD, HD-/BR-DVD, DVB-S2) to x264.mkv.

AutoMKV seems a good GUI to me but I couldn't open the ripped EVO-files from my (own) Serenity-HD-DVD with AutoMKV.
There seems one or more steps to be missing.
Second problem are the huge possibilities with different options in AutoMKV (compared to AutoGK which I'm using for years now doing this automaticaly). I haven't found an in-depth-HowTo (Wiki-manual just scratches on the surface) for the different options in AutoMKV.

[alxtorrentazos]

sorry to ask, another newbie here ;).......which program make an ISO file from a Bluray disc?......this means that with that program we can mantain menu´s, extras, etc?? to later burn this iso file to a virgin/blank bluray disc to do backups?
Thanks

[QuadcoreHD]

ImgBurn...but if its a DL BD Disc you're going to have some issues putting this right on a blank BD.

[EPiPH0NE]

ImgBurn...but if its a DL BD Disc you're going to have some issues putting this right on a blank BD.

Just buy a BD-R/RE 50 and a burner that supports them....problem solved :cool:

[alxtorrentazos]

So, the .m2ts files are like the extraction of the main movie of DVD´s?? they are NOT the full BD and does not include menus, extras, etc?