BD-ROM import

November 17, 2008 7:37 AM

How can I import blu-ray like I do DVD9?

I LOVE backing up my optical media onto disk using any combination of DVD43, DVDfab, DVD shrink, etc., and then playing back with VLC and XMBC.

I bought this blu-ray drive. The only way to *watch* a blu-ray movie is through the accompanying (lousy) bundled software, though it does in fact work.

Is there any way to import the data to a 25gb iso like I can for a DVD9? And/Or any program that will cut out superfluous extras and reduce the filesize like DVD shrink or DVD fab?

posted by slagerst to Technology (3 answers total)

AnyDVD HD is by far the best decryption solution. DVDFab HD Decrypter is a distant second. AACSKeys/DumpHD may be better in the long run but for now is a pain to use.

What I would do (assuming I only wanted the main movie and assuming I didn't feel like re-encoding the video) would be to use AnyDVD as an on-the-fly decrypter to mount the Blu-Ray as UDF, drag the main movie M2TS files to the hard disk location I wanted to keep them, and then run them through TsMuxeRGUI to keep only the audio and subtitle streams I was interested in. If the movie were split across more than one file, I'd append the segments first in TsMuxerGUI. I might consider re-muxing to Matroska to cut the muxing overhead if all the audio streams were compatible; TrueHD/DTS-HD MA can be recompressed to FLAC if necessary. The resulting M2TS files would then be playable using ffdshow and Haali's Matroska Splitter, and my preferred frontend would be Media Player Classic or MPC-HC. CoreAVC would be worth the 5 bucks for H.264 decoding on older PCs.

If you later wanted to burn to a BD-RE, you could run the final file through TsRemux and author a Blu-ray structure to be finalized with BDEdit and then burned.

There are a dozen different ways to do all this: At a minimum, you could create a main movie Matroska file with AC3, DTS, andor PCM/TrueHD-sourced multichannel FLAC audio, the original video, and the original chapter markers using only eac3to, MKVMerge, and AnyDVD. Subtitles could be added in SRT format using SupRip.
posted by Inspector.Gadget at 7:53 AM on November 17, 2008 [1 favorite]

I believe anyDVD will read bluray and see it as a storage disc while removing all protections. Copying/archiving 25gb from there is another thing entirely.

I think the newest version of Nero Recode can do blurays, and recode + anydvd is badass.
posted by TomMelee at 7:54 AM on November 17, 2008

Try these links
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I found these by searching google for 30 seconds using "dvd shrink bluray". Look around and you'll find that lots of people have the same basic question. Good luck!
posted by RustyBrooks at 7:56 AM on November 17, 2008