MKV Conversion

[sholling]

I like to keep my purchased concert BDs on a hard drive mainly because unlike movies I play concert videos fairly often. It's also fun to keep a demo video or two handy to impress friends. This hasn't been a problem with my WDTV Live because it happily plays ISOs but I've had my eye on a player that unfortunately does not support ISO files.

I've been playing with Handbrake and Divx (I have a full Divx license) and both keep turning a 30GB file into a 4GB file and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I've read all the help files, set both to create MKV files, set Handbrake to output to maintain the native frame rates, output 1920x1080, the quality at the suggested 22 and pass-through DTS 5.1. I get a 4GB file with no sound.

I tried Divx HD Plus and set it for Dolby and got a 4GB file in French.

Before I give up and stay with ISOs I thought I'd see if anyone had ideas. I'm really tempted to stay with what I have but I figure this is a chance to learn something even if I never use it again.

Thanks!

 

[krzywica]

Try makemkv or clownbd.

 

[BMXTRIX]

Make MKV will do a direct conversion without any change whatsoever to overall quality and is what I have used.

 

[sholling]

Thanks both of you. I did two conversions from ISOs on virtual drives last night and wow it's fast and it works. I'll keep playing with it for the remainder of the trial period and will then probably buy a license. It does complain about the fact that I have AnyDVD HD. How well does its direct BD ripping feature work?

 

[dkane360]

I use makemkv for my 1:1 blu-ray rips. It works pretty well. It's still in beta, so keep that in mind. There have only been a few times it hasn't worked for one reason or another, but usually trying again later seems to get it to work. Who knows, maybe its my blu-ray drive.

Make sure that you select the audio track you want, because it doesn't pick the lossless track by default. I did 10 or so before I realized that, and I was really pissed lol.

 

[sholling]

I use makemkv for my 1:1 blu-ray rips. It works pretty well. It's still in beta, so keep that in mind. There have only been a few times it hasn't worked for one reason or another, but usually trying again later seems to get it to work. Who knows, maybe its my blu-ray drive.

Make sure that you select the audio track you want, because it doesn't pick the lossless track by default. I did 10 or so before I realized that, and I was really pissed lol.

How does it handle the encryption keys?

The two the I converted from ISO seemed to each have two sound tracks. The video player on my PC didn't spot bot and only played the (wrong) default track but my WDTV Live gives me a choice.

 

[dkane360]

How does it handle the encryption keys?

The two the I converted from ISO seemed to each have two sound tracks. The video player on my PC didn't spot bot and only played the (wrong) default track but my WDTV Live gives me a choice.

I only had a problem with one of the more recent disks, but that was an older version of mkv. I think they're pretty good with updating everything so it stays current with the blu-ray releases.

Ripping direct form the disk was when I had to manually select which audio track I wanted. I don't think it would remove a track if you convert it from an ISO.