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[perisoft]

OK, so it seems like eac3to is the only practical way to get stuff from bd to a format that a good player will play.

I've dug around on forums, read wikis, and messed with a GUI for eac3to, and can't for the life of me figure out exactly how to go from bd directory structure to .mkv of the movie.

The eac3to 'how to' thing has a huge, elaborate discussion of command line stuff... which, as so much open source documentation does, skips the absolutely essential bits, presumably because they're so 'obvious'. The wiki appears to tell you how to go through some command line process to get a directory full of .ac3, .dts, and .264 files, but I'm honestly not sure, since there's next to zero explanation. And it's not like I'm a -completely- technically illiterate moron..

Anyway, is there any *clear, from zero* information out there about going from bd to playable .mkv, which doesn't assume that you already know 90% of what you need to know?

Thanks!

[emdawgz1]

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[benareeno]

Did you read this one? I got it to work fairly easily with this...and I'm not a huge computer whiz.

http://sites.google.com/site/xorphdstuff/remuxing

[Mark_A_W]

Oh for f*ck*** sake a 5 year old could do it


1. Stick disc in drive

2. Run command prompt (from a prepared shortcut) to eac3to.exe. I have a old 150gb drive dedicated, with eac3to sitting in the root.


3. Type: eac3to d:\

Read the readout for the name of the m2ts file (0000x.m2ts for the example).

4. Type eac3to d:\bdmv\stream\0000x.m2ts (use up arrow to get it the text again).

Read the readout for the track listing.

5. Type eac3to d:\bdmv\stream\0000x.m2ts 1: moofie_chapters.txt 2: moofie_video.mkv 4: moofie_audio.flac.


Wait 45mins.


Mux the 3 tracks into one mkv file with MKVmerge.



And there is a simple gui now - HDstreamExtractor or somesuch.

[perisoft]

Yes, a 5-year-old could DO it quite easily. Whether or not a 5-year-old could figure out HOW to do it is another question.

Just because something is simple to execute doesn't mean that the execution was easy to develop.

Knock over stack of foam blocks: Easy to develop; easy to execute.
Break big stone with hammer: Easy to develop; hard to execute.
Rip BD to MKV: Hard to develop; easy to execute.
Ceiling Mount G90: Hard to develop; hard to execute.

I appreciate the help!

[benareeno]

Give me a specific question of where you might get stuck, and I'll help you get unstuck.

[Mark_A_W]

All the guides over-complicate a simple process.

All I do is convert the video to MKV/highest quality Audio to FLAC/spit out chapters text file, using eac3to.

Then mux together with mkvmerge.


The only codec that is hard to acquire (coz you can't buy the damn thing) is Sonic Cineplayer 4.3, used for E-AC3/DD+. That's not an issue with Bluray, only HD-DVD.

The Arcsoft HD Audio decoder works after the trial has expired. All you have to do is register that filter - it's in the arcsoft install directory. You use this one for DTS-MA as it will do 7.1, the included decoder only does 5.1. You need Arcsoft Total Media Extreme or something.

Edit: Use regsvr32 to register ASAudioHD.ax file found in the codecs subfolder of TMT (search the arcsoft install folder)



Type "eac3to -test" as it tells you what it needs, but you don't need surcode or the other encoders, unless you want to encode DTS (why???).

[MikeEby]

This is good thread, I am finally getting the drift on how this is done.

Mike

[benareeno]

I was happy using the -core option for the many DTS tracks that are out there. It extracts the high bitrate DTS instead of full lossless DTS-HDMA (well explained in the link I provided above). Most will like it's ease of use and it's high quality audio, as well as its compatibility with legacy audio receivers.

Mark makes use of flac and therefore can get lossless on all of his rips, but for my first few demuxes, I wanted to make it really, really easy in all aspects...

I still say...the re-encodes are great too! Although I haven't ventured down that road myself as it seems mighty complex compared to simple BD->MKV remuxing.

[AnalogRocks]

Do any of you guys ever watch a movie directly off the disk or do you spend all your time arguing with the ripping software?

I love my HTPC I can put a disk in a play. Now whether or not the Ampro want's to play along is another story.

[AnalogRocks]

Do any of you guys ever watch a movie directly off the disk or do you spend all your time arguing with the ripping software?

I love my HTPC I can put a disk in a play. Now whether or not the Ampro want's to play along is another story.

[huggy]

Ripping via eac3to is easy once shown,however I'd have alot of troubles if I wasn't shown just how to do it.I have the problem of trying to add subtitles to some of the asian movies I have,I've been looking for a dummies guide on the net but it seems all the guides just assume you know what to do.


Dave

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[perisoft]

Mark, will MPC-HC play blu-ray off the disc using ffdshow? And if so, will it play from a rip of the blu-ray directory structure, or a mounted ISO?

If it'll do those things, I almost don't need to worry about ripping for the moment - though it would be nice for the reasons you state, and for size, and ... yeah, a few things. But it'd be a nice fallback for when I can't figure something out and my friends are waiting on the couch, anyway!

Edit: For reference I dug up the link to Beliyall's build:

http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=145203

Haven't tried it as I'm at work, but I'm waiting with bated (not baited) breath.

[benareeno]

I pick dts core because my optical connection to my receiver will only stream the core....if I get HDMI working with LPCM, I'll switch to flac.

[Gary M.]

I don't get why you guys don't just do this and be done:

http://forum.slysoft.com/showthread.php?t=16922

-Gary

[Mark_A_W]

Because it's over-complicated and unnecessary.

[Mark_A_W]