Blu-Ray to MKV or AVI

[edgedamage]

Seeing as my Blu-ray player is scratching the piss outta my disks, I need to protect my investment. Besides DVD Fab & Handbrake what do most people use to rip their own blu-rays.

[Joshray]

MKV with x264 encoding.

[JamesA1]

If your Blu-Ray player is scratching your discs, you need a new Blu-Ray player. That shouldn't ever happen.

Check Giveawayoftheday.com once in a while for free Blu-Ray rippers like the one from Aiseesoft.

[lg777]

Those are the 2 I ended up using...any issues with them to look for alternatives which will probably cost you money?

Now converting Blu-Ray to DVD is a PITA. I need DVD still for my kids as I don't have BluRay readily available everywhere.

[Scycotic]

and note that ripping blurays can be illegal if it requires breaking any kind of digital lock now according to the new laws...even for backup purposes.

not that it ever stopped anyone.

[infamouskid]

mkv all the way.

[edgedamage]

Seems mkvmerge is the most used.

Writing application : mkvmerge v4.1.1 ('Bouncin' Back') built on Jul 3 2010 22:54:08

Video
ID : 1
Format : AVC
Format/Info : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile : High@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames : 4 frames
Codec ID : V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC
Duration : 1h 42mn
Bit rate : 9 153 Kbps
Width : 1 920 pixels
Height : 1 080 pixels
Display aspect ratio : 16:9
Frame rate mode : Constant
Frame rate : 23.976 fps
Color space : YUV
Chroma subsampling : 4:2:0
Bit depth : 8 bits
Scan type : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame) : 0.184
Stream size : 6.42 GiB (84%)

Guess I gotta learn hoe to use mkvmerge.

[Ironsmack]

I use MakeMKV to rip a 1:1 copy of my BR disc without any encoding.

I highly recommend this for sure.

http://makemkv.com/

[edgedamage]

I use MakeMKV to rip a 1:1 copy of my BR disc without any encoding.

I highly recommend this for sure.

http://makemkv.com/

Can you mediaInfo one of your files and please let me know if video is AVC.

[adeeliko]

what is PITA?

Now converting Blu-Ray to DVD is a PITA.

[McLaren__F1]

what is PITA?

Pain In The Ass

[audit13]

Can you mediaInfo one of your files and please let me know if video is AVC.

I thought AVC was just a codec used for the video portion of Blu-ray video, like VC-1.

I'll have to look at some of my files to see what they say.

Edit: I look at three different files and Mediainfo states AVC for all of them.