The complete HD (Blu-ray/HD-DVD) back-up thread.

As far as i know, i'm not trying to use any command? Anyway to delete this command. Just trying to encode x.264 file using your profile.

 

--progress is not in either one of Ryu77's AVCHD or Blu-ray profiles, you may be using an older version. Import his current profiles which are linked in the first post of this thread.

 

I was using Ryu's updated profiles from page 1 of this thread with megui also from the link on page one. Are there any settings in the x.264 section of megui i need to change?

 

Is this where I can get info on doing a one to one backup of a blu-ray movie? I don't want to downsize to a dvd, just backup to a 25gb or 50 gb disc. I've downloaded a few progams and still have problems getting the discs to not turn into coasters. Please point me in the right direction. It seems lots of movies now days are more than 25gb, which is fine, I don't want to downsize at all. Thanks

 

Then all you need to do is rip the BD to your computer, then burn the BDMV and CERTIFICATE folders with whichever burning ROM you choose. Be sure to use UDF 2.5 as the file system when burning, or else you'll surely make coasters.

 

Just wanted to mention that if anyone was having trouble with the auto update feature on MeGUI, if you add this server in the update settings (Options\Settings\Extra config\Configure servers) it will work again...

http://kurtnoise.free.fr/MeGUI/

It looks like the others are down for the time being.

 

Thanks, How'd you find this?

 

From the MeGUI thread over at Doom9. Kurtnoise listed it as an alternate site for MeGUI updates. I just thought I would try adding it to the update server in the settings, and it seems to be able to update automatically from that server. It seems there might be some incompatibility with a newer x264 build and my profiles though. I will need to look into this over the next few days to see where the problem is.

 

Well I know there is a thread for the DVD, but I can't find anything for the Blu-ray. Does anyone know a way to backup the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Blu-ray without having to purchase AnyDVD HD? Any other software that's updated enough to handle it? I can't afford to purchase a license right now, but I would like to start editing this movie.

 

Wow this thread is full of win! Props to everyone who is contributing helpful advice on this topic. I've been out of the burning scene for a while now and sadly know nothing about the BD ripping process.

Just ripped my first BD (Kill Bill) to my hard drive last night using AnyDVDHD and finally got a chance to see what folders lie on a BD. I see a BDMV and a CERTIFICATE folder which I've read elsewhere in this thread so it seems like I'm on the right track. I've navigated to the BDMV\STREAM folder and see these files:

00001.m2ts
00002.m2ts
...
00022.m2ts

I opened 00001.m2ts with my BD playing software (Cyberlink PowerDVD 9) and the video rip is crisp and clean, however no audio plays and it bypasses all of the BD menus. I'm planning on trying out these BD rips a variety of different ways and I would appreciate any help on how to do so.

First, I am playing with the idea of keeping full BD rips on external HDs, this way I can play them right off my computer (using Cyberlink PowerDVD 9) onto my TV connected through an HDMI cable. My question here is what file do I need to play (in the BDMV or CERTIFICATE folders) for Cyberlink to treat it as if I had just inserted a BD disc so that it will take me through the menus as it usually does and so that the sound works as well.

Second, I'd like to try burning a few BD to blank BD. I'm not interested in any kind of compression. Is it simply as easy as odin24 had stated?

I've been a long time Nero user, will Nero achieve this for me or is there better software for burning BD that people are using?

Lastly, I'd like to try converting a few BD to mkv files. Since I don't want to recompress the video, I should follow these steps from Ryu77 below?

This would give me a huge mkv file keeping all of the original BD video and audio quality correct? Converting over to mkv, I assume that you lose the options for menus and everything else too?

Thanks in advance for any help!

 

There should be an option to play Media Folder, as opposed to Media File. If there is use the option to play the Folder, and select the folder that contains your BD rip (BDMV and Certificate folders). This way the menu, chapters, subs, and special features will reamin in tact. I do this using Arcsoft TMT.

Yup, it's as simple as that, I suggest using the burning ROM that came with your BD drive. If all else fails, IMGBurn is a good option. Personally, I do not like Nero as my burning app.

I suggest you remux all that you want to keep (audio tracks and subs, etc.) to a new BD structure using tsMuxeR... only because you mentioned playing the structure through your computer earlier. This way you can keep subs, chapter, and HD audio. HD audio in MKV is a no go, unless you transcode to FLAC, which is supported by most PC codecs, however is not supported by BD. So, either remux to BD structure, or m2ts... instead of MKV.

Use a program called BDInfo to determine the MPLS that applies to the main movie, then load that MPLS file (located in the BDMV/Playlist folder of your rip) into tsMuxeR. Then un-check all that you do not need. Leave the language tags in tact, chapters should also be activated. Select Blu-ray as the output and remux. Be sure to remux it to a New Folder (or different from the source rip), or else you will overwrite the original BD rip, because you will create a new set of BDMV and Certificate folders when remuxing to AVCHD or Blu-ray.

Cheers.

 

Great info! I am sure I'll have some more questions when it comes to the burning and muxing process as I don't understand all of those acronyms you just threw at me lol. Tried to play Media Folder as you said with Cyberlink and couldn't find the option anywhere. Did a bit of research and found that Cyberlink PowerDVD 9 does NOT allow you to play a BD from your hard drive.

The weird thing is that when I play the same file 00001.m2ts with VLC, it loads with the sound but the video is glitchy and lags. Loading that file with PowerDVD 9 doesn't have sound for some reason, but the video is perfect.

That said, what are some good software recommendations with the ability to play a BD from your hard drive?

 

Arcsoft Total Media Theatre (TMT), it's what I use.

 

DVDFab 6 can do the same with Blu Ray.

 

Hi,

I cannot seem to use Ryu's profile on MeGUI0.3.1.1056.

I tried putting the xml files in the profiles/video subdirectory manually and it says it cannot load them.

I tried importing from the zip file and they don't show up in the box to check off.

Any thoughts?

 

Ryu77, I thought I did read somewhere that the newer builds of x264 will not support a slew of previous commands, which is why most of your profiles are now stipped down. I had to revert back to MeGUI 3.1.1053 to get your profiles back... however I know that I cannot get the latest x264. Just search this site for MeGUI and 3.1.1053 can be downloaded here.

duckwood, You can just copy/paste the .xml files from the extracted zip file and place them in the MeGUI installation directory... be sure to place them in allprofiles/x264. I had the hardest time doing this myself, for some reason the would automatically delete after doing this. I ended up copying the whole x264 folder into the MeGUI installation directory and overwriting the existing one, that seemed to do the trick.

But beware, Ryu77's new profiles at the moment are not compatible with the x264 build that comes with MeGUI v3.1.1056... see my comment above in this very post.

 

Ok, I have a weird problem.

I backed up G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra blu-ray to my hard drive using DVDFab.

I then used BD Rebuilder to shrink it down to fit a BD-R disc. BD Rebuilder seemingly worked perfectly and I burned the disc using both IMGBurn and Nero Burning Rom with UDF 2.50.

I tried the disc on my PC and it worked perfectly fine with PowerDVD. When I tried the disc in my PS3, the icon for G.I. Joe was displayed on the menu, but when I went to play the disc it just does a black screen. I've used the info button to watch what it does and it does go through several titles before it gets to a point where it freezes. From there I can't do anything other than quite playback.

The retail disc plays perfectly fine in the PS3, so I'm not sure what is going on. I don't know if there is some BD-Live thing that's acting funny or what, but I do know that if I run AnyDvdHD with the disc in my PC and I select "Disable BD-Live" and then run it in PowerDVD it also does only a black screen (but doesn't go through as many titles before stopping).

Is there something on my PS3 that's disabling BD-Live? I can't figure this one out at all. All my other backups play fine, it's only GI Joe having this issue.

 

I am new to Blu ray . I bought a Blu Ray Reader, read what I thought was enough to copy a Blu Ray disk I own to a dvd disc. I downloaded DvdFabhd, used the Blu ray to Blu ray option, finally got it on the harddrive, went to burn using a dvd5 disc, (used Movie only), was rejected, stating I needed a dual blu ray disc. I'm obviously doing something wrong, when I opened the downloaded file I was completly lost with the options I was given, as oppossed to a Dvd file that just has the audio/video option. I would greatly appeciate any help. T.I.A.

 

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hey guess i am getting this message after ripbot264 is done analyzing and demxing the .ts file that i made from TsMuxR any reason why i cant get to any farther than this point......ripbot2 is openging meadia classic and then gives this message




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