A little ripping guidance please

[minaust]

I just received my newest acquisition; my favorite TV series, every episode on Blu-Ray. I now have 80 episodes to rip.

I've made a preliminary evaluation, and here's what I've got: The video is is all H264 except for one season, which is VC-1. The audio is all PCM except for one season, which is DTS master audio. All have a single subtitle track.

My objective: I want all that, plus chapters. Now, I've ripped BD discs before. However, I only have one tool in my ripping toolbox - MakeMKV. I take the resulting MKV, demux it, re-encode, remux - no problem.

I need more tools, so I downloaded the trial of anyDVD-HD, and right now, I;m underwhelmed I put the playlist into MKVtoolnix with the intention of demuxing the resulting MKV, and the audio and subtitles are unusable, corrupt. I get the exact same thing if I rip the disk to my hard drive with nlue-ray disk ripper.

If I open the playlist or ts with dgindexnv I get a good index, all audio, but no subs or chapters.

I guess my question is, how do I use anyDVD or how do I rip an unencrypted BD disk?

[HWK]

You can use MakeMKV and it will keep all subs, audio and chapters. Don't make it unnecessary complicated for yourself.

As for Anydvd right click and choose rip to image. (Located near time in system tray) However it will rip full disc, you can't modify individual file .

You can also use BD-RB to further customize your output.

[Ghitulescu]

... or how do I rip an unencrypted BD disk?

Copy + Paste from windows explorer.

[minaust]

You can use MakeMKV and it will keep all subs, audio and chapters. Don't make it unnecessary complicated for yourself.
But how do I make a good mkv without MakeMK? That's the additional tool I'm looking for. I can get a decrypted BD onto my hd - and then what?

As for Anydvd right click and choose rip to image. (Located near time in system tray) However it will rip full disc, you can't modify individual file .
I don't need AnyDVD for that. Blu-Ray Disc Ripper is a free tool from SlySoft that can do a full disk backup. You've got to come up with a vuk on your own, but that;s no problem.

You can also use BD-RB to further customize your output.
I didn't know about that - thanks.

[HWK]

In regards good mkv what exactly you referring to or try to achieve. Can you give us example.

[minaust]

In regards good mkv what exactly you referring to or try to achieve. Can you give us example.

With a decrypted blu-ray on my hard drive, how do I rip a playlist, ripping all audio tracks, English subtitles, and chapters?

[Ghitulescu]

Ripping means that you copy the content of a disc to HDD.

Ripping from HDD makes no sense :)

What do you intend to do?

PS: hint - editing also does not say anything.

[minaust]

Ripping means that you copy the content of a disc to HDD.

Ripping from HDD makes no sense :)

What do you intend to do?

PS: hint - editing also does not say anything.

What I'm trying to do is take a blu-ray playlist from a decrypted disc and turn it into a reasonably sized video. This video must have subtitles (if present), all audio tracks, and chapters. With DVDs, this was simple.

I have many methods for doing this, but one loses the chapters. Another loses both subs and chapters. I need a workflow that handles all of the above.

[Asmodian]

With a decrypted blu-ray on my hard drive, how do I rip a playlist, ripping all audio tracks, English subtitles, and chapters?

eac3to (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1004685#post1004685) is very good for this, as long as you do not mind simple command lines:
eac3to "playlist.mpls"

Of course you do need to figure out which playlists are for the episodes.

I use AnyDVD HD and run it directly off the disc, e.g.
"C:\eac3to\eac3to.exe" "E:\BDVM\PLAYLIST\00022.mpls"

E is my bluray drive and I run the command in the folder I want the files in.

If you want to process the files further (compress the video and/or audio and OCR the subtitles) you can get individual files for each track, and a mkvtoolnix compatible chapters file, by using:
eac3to "playlist.mpls" -demux

If you have the demuxed bluray in a folder already you can delete all the playlists you don't want and use a for loop in a batch file to demux all the remaining ones with one command. Let me know if this interests you and you want examples. :)

For a large number of episodes it is easier (for me at least ;)) to use a few batch files to process everything at once instead of needing to setup a GUI for each file.

[Chetwood]

MakeMKV is very good for this, as long as you do mind simple command lines ;)

[minaust]

eac3to (http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1004685#post1004685) is very good for this, as long as you do not mind simple command lines:
eac3to "playlist.mpls"
Heh, heh, heh. I'm old. I'm really old. I'm an old MS-DOS guy. I was dragged into the Windows world kicking and screaming, "Just give me back my command line!" I don't mind not-so-simple command lines.

[URL="http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1004685#post1004685"]Of course you do need to figure out which playlists are for the episodes.

I use AnyDVD HD and run it directly off the disc, e.g.


E is my bluray drive and I run the command in the folder I want the files in.

If you want to process the files further (compress the video and/or audio and OCR the subtitles) you can get individual files for each track, and a mkvtoolnix compatible chapters file, by using:
eac3to "playlist.mpls" -demux

If you have the demuxed bluray in a folder already you can delete all the playlists you don't want and use a for loop in a batch file to demux all the remaining ones with one command. Let me know if this interests you and you want examples. :)

For a large number of episodes it is easier (for me at least ;)) to use a few batch files to process everything at once instead of needing to setup a GUI for each file.
Now that is useful. I should have thought of that. I'd forgotten (if I ever knew) that eac3to handled playlists. I do use batch files as I recently, as I posted above, I purchased an entire TV series, all 6 years. It came on 19 BD disks, with 4 or 5 episodes per disk. I have almost 80 episodes to rip. You can bet I use batch files. Use MakeMKV to do the rip. Name the episodes Move the episodes into the folder containing all my batch files. Then I run this one:
@echo off
cd /d "%~dp0"

for %%M in (*.mkv) do (
md "%%~nM"
move "%%M" "%%~nM"
)

That creates a folder with the same as the file, then moves the file into it. Then run another one that just extracts the chapters. The next does a full demux like the one you posted. And so on. I wrote a "one click" script, but I didn't use it, as not all seasons are encoded identically. Plus I prefer to inspect the results after each step. Even the Avisynth scripts are batch created.

I can't imagine doing 75-80 encodes one at a time....

Anyway, thanks for a really useful response. :thanks: