HOW TO: Rip Blu Rays to 720p DivX's or H.264's
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2009 11:06 pm
Introduction:
This guide will walk you through on how to convert Blu Rays to either 720p DivX's as AVI's or 720p H.264's as MKV's,
while maintaining the original audio of either AC3 or DTS. Target file size will be either 4.38GB or 6.57GB, depending
on the length of the movie.
Requirements:
A Blu Ray movie
A Blu Ray drive
AnyDVD HD http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=An ... &aq=f&oq=l (1st hit on Google)
BDInfo http://www.cinemasquid.com/Tools.aspx
tsMuxeR http://www.videohelp.com/tools/tsMuxeR
And of cause the crown jewel MediaCoder x64 version/build: 0.6.2.4215
Steps:
1. Make sure AnyDVD HD is loaded.
2. Insert the Blu Ray disc into the drive. The fox head will go grey for a approx 10 seconds, then if it can successfully
decrypt the disc it will return to its original colour. If AnyDVD HD detects it can't decrypt the disc, it will report that a
critical update is needed. Jump to the ANYDVD HD website and grab the latest update. Once the update is installed
AnyDVD HD should be able to decrypt the disc.
3. Now load BDInfo and click 'Browse', select your Blu Ray drive and click 'OK'.
You will now see the following window. The key information is marked by the arrows. The left arrow marking the playlist
file name and the right arrow indicates the size of the movie. In this case approx 40GB. The green arrow marks the length
of the movie. Take note of the movie name and length. Compare the movie length with the length stated on the back
cover of the Blu Ray. Sometimes the longest movie is the main movie with director commentary.
Just a little bit of background on why we need to use BDInfo. You will find that some Blu Rays store the movie in one big
file. In that case you could use 'tsMuxeR' to rip the movie file directly from the disc. They never make it easy though.
I have found on a number of occasions that the main movie file is broken down into as many as 30+ files with random
names. This is where the playlist comes into play. Also note that the playlist file can also have a random name.
4. Now load 'tsMuxeR'.
5. Now click 'add' as highlighted by the purple arrow. Browser to you Blu Ray drive, then into the BDMV folder, now into
the PLATLIST folder. Double click the playlist that we noted in BDInfo.
6. You will need to find the movie and audio tracks as indicated by the green and orange rectangles. Note that these
are not always in order. Also make sure you have the correct language selected.
7. Untick all the tracks except the audio and video tracks as indicated by the red rectangle.
8. If the audio track is an 'AC3 core + HD' or 'DTS core + HD', you will need to click the audio track, in this case indicated
by the orange rectangle and tick the box 'Downconvert ....' as highlighted by the dark blue rectangle.
9. Now select 'M2TS Muxing' as indicated by the light blue rectangle.
10. You will need to click the 'Browse' button highlighted by the green arrow. Browse to where you wish to save the
Blu Ray movie, enter a name and click save.
11. Now click 'Start', highlighted by the red arrow. OK this will take 45mins + to dump to the hard drive.
12. Once the movie has finished close 'tsMuxeR'.
13. Now the magic starts. Load MediaCoder.
14. Click the 'Add' button on the toolbar, then 'Add File'. Browse to where you saved the ripped Blu Ray and open it.
15. Now under the 'Audio' tab, tick the highlighted boxes.
16. To re-encode to an XviD using the AVI container tick and select as indicated below.
17. To re-encode to H.264 using the MKV container tick and select as indicated below.
18. Ok now we need set the resolution of the output. Click the 'Picture' tab and set the options as follows.
19. Alright now we need to do some testing to set the output file size. So jump to the 'Time' tab and set the start time to
5min and end to 10mins as highlighted below.
I have found that starting at 0mins causes problem calculating total size as there seems to be lots of low motion or
black screens, which compress more than the movie proper.
From personal experience I have found that 2hr 30mins will fit onto one DVD of 4.38GB. A movie length greater than
2 hrs 30mins set to 1.5 DVD's which equals 6.57GB. So now a bit of calculating. In this case our movie is
2hrs 11mins 13secs = 131mins 13secs. As it's less than 2.5hrs we will want the resulting size of 4.38GB. 4.38GB * 1024 = 4485.12MB.
We now divide 4485.12 by 131.25 = 34.17, which is for 1min, so now we multiple 34.17 by 5 = 170.85MB.
20. Ok so now we want to start the conversion of 5mins of the Blu Ray and see what size we get.
When the conversion is complete we need to see how close we are to the 170.85MB that we want. 21. If the file is larger
than 170.85MB then we need to reduce the Kbps under the 'Video' tab. If the file is smaller then we need to increase
the Kbps. I would suggest differences of 100Kbps.
22. Once we are close to the 170.85MB result we want, we will set the time to 00 under the 'Time' tab and click 'Start'.
If all goes well you will, in quite a number of hours, have a movie of the size we wanted. If the file is not the size you
wanted then play with the Kbps.
Good luck and happy ripping. Feel free to make constructive criticism or suggestions.
Disclaimer:
Author is not responsible for the contents ripped from copyrighted material. It's solely the user(s) responsibility on
how the contents well be handled or used. Author assumes that the copyrighted material was legally purchased by
the user(s) for private, non-commercial use only. Author does not support piracy in any way, shape or form.
This guide will walk you through on how to convert Blu Rays to either 720p DivX's as AVI's or 720p H.264's as MKV's,
while maintaining the original audio of either AC3 or DTS. Target file size will be either 4.38GB or 6.57GB, depending
on the length of the movie.
Requirements:
A Blu Ray movie
A Blu Ray drive
AnyDVD HD http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=An ... &aq=f&oq=l (1st hit on Google)
BDInfo http://www.cinemasquid.com/Tools.aspx
tsMuxeR http://www.videohelp.com/tools/tsMuxeR
And of cause the crown jewel MediaCoder x64 version/build: 0.6.2.4215
Steps:
1. Make sure AnyDVD HD is loaded.
2. Insert the Blu Ray disc into the drive. The fox head will go grey for a approx 10 seconds, then if it can successfully
decrypt the disc it will return to its original colour. If AnyDVD HD detects it can't decrypt the disc, it will report that a
critical update is needed. Jump to the ANYDVD HD website and grab the latest update. Once the update is installed
AnyDVD HD should be able to decrypt the disc.
3. Now load BDInfo and click 'Browse', select your Blu Ray drive and click 'OK'.
You will now see the following window. The key information is marked by the arrows. The left arrow marking the playlist
file name and the right arrow indicates the size of the movie. In this case approx 40GB. The green arrow marks the length
of the movie. Take note of the movie name and length. Compare the movie length with the length stated on the back
cover of the Blu Ray. Sometimes the longest movie is the main movie with director commentary.
Just a little bit of background on why we need to use BDInfo. You will find that some Blu Rays store the movie in one big
file. In that case you could use 'tsMuxeR' to rip the movie file directly from the disc. They never make it easy though.
I have found on a number of occasions that the main movie file is broken down into as many as 30+ files with random
names. This is where the playlist comes into play. Also note that the playlist file can also have a random name.
4. Now load 'tsMuxeR'.
5. Now click 'add' as highlighted by the purple arrow. Browser to you Blu Ray drive, then into the BDMV folder, now into
the PLATLIST folder. Double click the playlist that we noted in BDInfo.
6. You will need to find the movie and audio tracks as indicated by the green and orange rectangles. Note that these
are not always in order. Also make sure you have the correct language selected.
7. Untick all the tracks except the audio and video tracks as indicated by the red rectangle.
8. If the audio track is an 'AC3 core + HD' or 'DTS core + HD', you will need to click the audio track, in this case indicated
by the orange rectangle and tick the box 'Downconvert ....' as highlighted by the dark blue rectangle.
9. Now select 'M2TS Muxing' as indicated by the light blue rectangle.
10. You will need to click the 'Browse' button highlighted by the green arrow. Browse to where you wish to save the
Blu Ray movie, enter a name and click save.
11. Now click 'Start', highlighted by the red arrow. OK this will take 45mins + to dump to the hard drive.
12. Once the movie has finished close 'tsMuxeR'.
13. Now the magic starts. Load MediaCoder.
14. Click the 'Add' button on the toolbar, then 'Add File'. Browse to where you saved the ripped Blu Ray and open it.
15. Now under the 'Audio' tab, tick the highlighted boxes.
16. To re-encode to an XviD using the AVI container tick and select as indicated below.
17. To re-encode to H.264 using the MKV container tick and select as indicated below.
18. Ok now we need set the resolution of the output. Click the 'Picture' tab and set the options as follows.
19. Alright now we need to do some testing to set the output file size. So jump to the 'Time' tab and set the start time to
5min and end to 10mins as highlighted below.
I have found that starting at 0mins causes problem calculating total size as there seems to be lots of low motion or
black screens, which compress more than the movie proper.
From personal experience I have found that 2hr 30mins will fit onto one DVD of 4.38GB. A movie length greater than
2 hrs 30mins set to 1.5 DVD's which equals 6.57GB. So now a bit of calculating. In this case our movie is
2hrs 11mins 13secs = 131mins 13secs. As it's less than 2.5hrs we will want the resulting size of 4.38GB. 4.38GB * 1024 = 4485.12MB.
We now divide 4485.12 by 131.25 = 34.17, which is for 1min, so now we multiple 34.17 by 5 = 170.85MB.
20. Ok so now we want to start the conversion of 5mins of the Blu Ray and see what size we get.
When the conversion is complete we need to see how close we are to the 170.85MB that we want. 21. If the file is larger
than 170.85MB then we need to reduce the Kbps under the 'Video' tab. If the file is smaller then we need to increase
the Kbps. I would suggest differences of 100Kbps.
22. Once we are close to the 170.85MB result we want, we will set the time to 00 under the 'Time' tab and click 'Start'.
If all goes well you will, in quite a number of hours, have a movie of the size we wanted. If the file is not the size you
wanted then play with the Kbps.
Good luck and happy ripping. Feel free to make constructive criticism or suggestions.
Disclaimer:
Author is not responsible for the contents ripped from copyrighted material. It's solely the user(s) responsibility on
how the contents well be handled or used. Author assumes that the copyrighted material was legally purchased by
the user(s) for private, non-commercial use only. Author does not support piracy in any way, shape or form.