NEW GUY / BLU RAY TO HD and why 2ch HDMI output

Hey there im new here but been a member of AVS forum and Digital video forum forever.

I just got this HTPC first off...
What is the SIMPLIST method of ripping my blu ray disk straight to my hard drive preferrably just the movie no extras. I dont plan on burning the disk I have alot of HD storage. Any tutorials would extra special. I do have the new anydvd HD but havent ever used it.

Problem 2.... Why when I watch blu ray on my htpc through powerdvd9 does it only send 2ch to my harman kardon AVR. However for some dumb reason when I switch to spdif it passes 5ch. I dont freaking get it kids.

Please be kind before replying the usual "Do a search"
thanks guys
jj

 

Gooday, I am interested in this thread as I am in the same boat as you.

I can help you with ANYDVD HD and backing up to HDD.
Insert your purchased BD disk for backup into the drive ANYDVD should read the disk and set the disk as per the user settings (a ballon should appear noting that the disk is being read and should be available soon - I am using Vindows Vista). From this point right click on the fox to in taskbar buttons (may need to unhide) and select either rip to disk, or rip ISO image. See http://www.ultimate-dvdr.com/anydvd/4290-anydvd-hd-tutorial.html

This is were I loose it. (Sorry I can not help you with the audio issue as I am not a fan right now of powerdvd 9 and do not use it - I prefer to use Windows media player to play the m2ts files directly via HDMI). See http://www.ultimate-dvdr.com/anydvd/4290-anydvd-hd-tutorial.html

After this point I am looking to do is find a program that will read the the bd playlists, and combine the muptiple m2ts streams into one single stream (as the majority of bd are broken into multiple streams - happy as I have HD space to burn aswell and this can be up to 48GB). My research of the forum threads is that tsmuxer is the way to go but am looking for a site to show me how to do this. If anyone can help or direct me to a good site and or thread on step by step instructions it would be much appreciated.

 

Is the PowerDVD9 package you have bought with the Blu-ray (BD) drive? If so, then it is crippled, which is not unusual for software bought with the hardware.

It is designed to try & force people into paying for the upgrade to the full, unrestricted player. I became BD ready at Christmas time. Because I SPDif everything, it was not an issue. But as most people who buy, are connecting to PC speakers, or via HDMI -which I also believe is crippled- then they are the ones whose money Cyberlink is after. See if there is an upgrade available for your PowerDVD player. With my 7.3 version, I got a free update to the Ultra version.

Are you connecting to your AVR by analogue for playback of the HD soundtrack?

 

thank you so much for the help with anydvdhd !! I will work on that as soon as I get home from work.

I am using powerdvd9 ultra. It is a version I got from piratebay.

I dont know what you mean by connecting via analoug. I have my hdmi going into my AVR that goes directly to my projetor.

I was kind of wondering maybe if the powerdvd9 ultra was the problem. I really dont like that program much I head TMT3 was the best program really.

 

In regards to "It is a version I got from piratebay"

Happy to help and pass through my knowledge when I can, but willing to only do this upon the condition where the BD, DVD, programs used have been either purhased or shareware. I encourage you to use the trial programs first - hence if you use them to support the programmers and or company it by purhasing it.

Regards

 

well i have already deleted it bc i dont like it anyways.

thanks for your consideration.

Also. Ive got my BD on my HD What is the best way to get just the movie with no menus or extras.

When I play the main file it plays in a different language everytime. What gives what do I need to do. to make sure it plays in english with no menus or extras. Do I need anyother programs? Can I delete the other files.

jj

 

Have a read of this with specific attention to chapter two on demuxing.

 

Dont fully understand how it works, but within the file structure of the bd is a stream folder, within is the main movie - potentially and usually broken up to multiple streams.

My refrence has been to (if lucky to be one stream) just extract the m2ts file and rename to the movie title.

For joining m2ts files you may what to try tsmuxer. Select the first stream and then join the other streams in order. Listed should be all the forigen languages and subtitles for you to deselect. As I am a newbie to tsmuxer you may need to plsy around with this. Select m2ts option and remux.

This will allow paying on the hd alone not on the blueray disk - need to do more reasearch on this around mounting the file to a viturial drive to play as a disk.

Furhter more more research is needed by myself to join mutiple streams out of order - looking for aprogram to join the playlist in the correct order - looking into BDinfo.

Good luck.