How to (slightly) strip Blu-ray??

[brogan]

I have a BD rip that's about 24.8 GB in size that I want to burn to a BD25...In the Stream folder there are about 60-70 .m2ts files of varying size, only one is large (16 GB, the main movie) I loaded that .m2ts file into tsMuxeR & removed all the audio except the Tru HD track & then burned it...when I loaded it up, I can get to the menus but it wouldn't play...what am I doing wrong? If I wanted just the movie, I believe I could just run that .m2ts file through tsMuxeR & it would recreate the BD structure for me but not the menus or anything else...is there an easier way to do this? Do I need to edit any files?
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[pelle412]

I think easiest way if you can live without the menus is to just load up the main movie in TsMuxer and create bluray disc structure from it. If you need to shrink it further in size, remove the audio tracks you don't need.

[brogan]

I think easiest way if you can live without the menus is to just load up the main movie in TsMuxer and create bluray disc structure from it. If you need to shrink it further in size, remove the audio tracks you don't need.

Thank you for the reply. If I couldn't figure out how to do this in the next day or so, I was going to suck it up & do that. I just though there had to be some way to keep the "structure" intact w/only removing a couple of the audio tracks...the BD rip has a Tru HD track as well as English .ac3, Spanish .ac3, French .ac3, etc...it's very close to fitting on a BD25 now, I can't imagine why it wasn't printed on a BD25 to begin with...I've already wasted 1 BD25 so far & don't want to waste anymore...I wonder if I was to demux the audio tracks I don't want, re-encode at a very low bit-rate & then remux back together if that would work...there's some stuff on the disc that I want but if I can't make it work, I'll just remux the main movie (.m2ts) into BD structure using tsMuxeR & be done w/it...I figured someone else would've had this same problem & figured out how to fix it...I couldn't find any/figure out any solutions other than the same one you proposed...thanks again for posting...

[MovieRipper]

Hello. I was actually wondering about this myself. There are all those tools like DVDRemake, DVDRebuilder that let you edit DVD menus and structures. Couldn't the same be done with Bluray? From what I read above, deleting some streams and remuxing doesn't quite work out well. So is there something more to it?

[pelle412]

Thank you for the reply. If I couldn't figure out how to do this in the next day or so, I was going to suck it up & do that. I just though there had to be some way to keep the "structure" intact w/only removing a couple of the audio tracks...the BD rip has a Tru HD track as well as English .ac3, Spanish .ac3, French .ac3, etc...it's very close to fitting on a BD25 now, I can't imagine why it wasn't printed on a BD25 to begin with...I've already wasted 1 BD25 so far & don't want to waste anymore...I wonder if I was to demux the audio tracks I don't want, re-encode at a very low bit-rate & then remux back together if that would work...there's some stuff on the disc that I want but if I can't make it work, I'll just remux the main movie (.m2ts) into BD structure using tsMuxeR & be done w/it...I figured someone else would've had this same problem & figured out how to fix it...I couldn't find any/figure out any solutions other than the same one you proposed...thanks again for posting...

What about this? Use AnyDVD HD to rip the entire BD disc onto your computer. Then load up the main movie file in TsMuxer, remux the m2ts file without some of the audio tracks, and copy it back over the original m2ts. Then use ImgBurn to create a UDF 2.50 ISO file, which you can then mount using Daemon Tools and play in your favorite software bluray player to test that it works. If all is good, burn the disc using ImgBurn or Nero.

[brogan]

What about this? Use AnyDVD HD to rip the entire BD disc onto your computer. Then load up the main movie file in TsMuxer, remux the m2ts file without some of the audio tracks, and copy it back over the original m2ts. Then use ImgBurn to create a UDF 2.50 ISO file, which you can then mount using Daemon Tools and play in your favorite software bluray player to test that it works. If all is good, burn the disc using ImgBurn or Nero.


That's basically what I did before but it didn't work for some reason...the Stream folder has 00050.m2ts to 00146.m2ts files...the main movie is 00056.m2ts (16 GB or so)...demuxing that file file of the extra audio streams, remuxing it back to 00056.m2ts & burning it resulted in a disc where I was able to bring up the menu but it didn't work & the movie wouldn't play...the next step I'm thinking of trying is to demux each of those extra audio streams & lower the bitrate as low as possible remux & see if that works...I only need to remove maybe a gig or a gig and a half for it to fit...I have 1 BD-RE so I might try that 1st...removing them completely is screwing something else up...I don't know enough about the structure of BD to know what's messed up (otherwise I'm sure I could just edit a file to fix this issue)
I thought someone else here on this forum would've already seen this or had this problem & had a solution...I don't think I've a problem that someone here didn't have a fix for in a few hours or so...hopefully, I'll get it figured & I'll post my results...thanks for posting man...

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[DVD Maniac]

I'm no expert on Blu Ray file structures but i'm not surprised you can't get this to work (the stripping method). Going back to good old DVD structures as a comparison, strpping out audio streams before the likes of PGC edit and Rebuilder etc came along was hit and miss at best if you want the menu's to carry on working.

I'm holding out for a tool which can do the following -

1. Skip Language setup screens (and automate the flag settings)
2. Strip audio streams
3. Blank out unwanted m2ts files

Whilst still retaining the original integrity of the disc structure and menus

Not sure which of the current ones are close to doing this?

[baudi]

What about this? Use AnyDVD HD to rip the entire BD disc onto your computer. Then load up the main movie file in TsMuxer, remux the m2ts file without some of the audio tracks, and copy it back over the original m2ts. Then use ImgBurn to create a UDF 2.50 ISO file, which you can then mount using Daemon Tools and play in your favorite software bluray player to test that it works. If all is good, burn the disc using ImgBurn or Nero.

After TsMuxer and before ImgBurn, see the #5 post of this:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=136361

It should work.

[QuadcoreHD]

@pelle412

You've outlined the instructions in a guide that I wrote I while back.

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=137151

@brogan,

It is really easy to just remove the unwanted language tracks, select that 16 gig .m2ts file in TSMuxer, then read the instructions in my guide. This is honestly the easiest way at the moment to do this. Once you've muxed to blu-ray structure burn that to a BD disc, or create an .iso. It will work, it has yet to fail for me.

[rik1138]

After TsMuxer and before ImgBurn, see the #5 post of this:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=136361

It should work.

Make sure you doing this:

rename the tsmuxer output files (*.m2ts, *.pls, *. clpinf) to match the above created structure with menue

You need the .pls and .clpinf of new file as well as the .m2ts. If the Blu-Ray player can't get these 3 files to match, it may not play back properly...

And definitely test on a BD-RE first! :)