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

It will not play properly, you need to convert to 1280x720 for it to be in Blu-Ray format.

 

Thanks Odin

 

ok I have a 4.35GB mkv file and so far I have installed mkv2vob my question is what would be the best setting to use to transfer and play on my PS3? I usually use FAT32 USB but I can do DVD5 as well

 

RYU,
I'm a rookie here, but would like to back up my BD collection. My BD-ROM should be here in a few days and I've downloaded the AnyDVD HD. I have a PS3 as my BD player, but my overall goal is to watch the movies streamed from my PC to PS3, laptop with HDMI to AV reciever, or the PCH A-110(still looking at it). I have taken a mkv file I got from a friend and converted it to vob with mkv2vob, but wasn't sure if I'm going to lose quality when it comes to the audio. What do I need to do keep the movies 1080p with DTS HD-MA(if applicable)? If compression is possible while still keeping the quality would like to know that also.

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As I've seen many people using mkv2vob in order to play movies on their PS3. Not sure if it has been mentioned before, but I recently downloaded the PS3 Media Server(freeware) on my PC which allows the PS3 to see your PC as a media server like WMP11, but transcodes mkv's and other extensions on the fly to the PS3

 

can anyone help me out converting this 4.35GB mkv plz? I tried tsmuxer but it made a 4.71GB m2ts file and I'd like to transfer the file using usb.

 

Use tsMuxeR and split the file to your desired size (lower than 4GB). Now you will have FAT32 compliancy.

 

@ Ryu77

What is the lowest bit rate you've encoded to for a 1080p file? I've gone as far as 6500kb/s with excellent results. I'm about to attempt 5400kb/s.

 

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Yes, I have used about 5,000 Kbit/s... The lower the bitrate, the more important to optimize (use slower) encoding options. The results were fantastic and look far better than DVD. However, compared to the original, there was a slight loss in quality... But I had to look really close at my PC screen to notice it. Viewing on my TV at normal viewing distance, I don't think there was much perceivable difference from the original at all.

 

Ever since that post I have encoded a few close to that bit rate, maybe 5500-6000. All with good results, and all using your Ultra profile. So you've gone as low as 5000 with excellent results, good to know.

 

hey, i successfully compressed and backed up my blu ray discs to DVD-DL's, and they play on my internal blu ray reader, but when i put them in my stand alone player it doesn't recognize them. anyone know how i could fix this or if i'm doing something wrong?
i use anydvd HD to rip to my hard drive then tsremux to take out everything except movie, audio and english subs, then BD rebuilder; and finally imgburn to make an iso and burn it to DVD-DL. thanks.

 

You may need to use the patch before you burn on DVD-DL. Also, if you have 24f enabled in your player, try to turn it off.

 

hey NKot, thanks for the reply. what patch are you talking about? and if you have any clues on how to disable 24f on my sony bdp-350, i'd appreciate it. thanks again.

 

Hello everyone. Well, I started reading this thread and got to page 6, and then tried skipping around until i got to page 32....I can't seem to keep all of the steps straight for what I want to do. Can someone please point me in the right direction?

I want to:

1. Create a blu-ray of my family HD home video. I want to create menus. Is this possible and easy using Sonic Scenarist? I'd like to edit my home movies - combine them, add fades, etc...I tried running the Scenarist in Vista, but it's not compatible. I don't want to set up everything in XP if what I want to do won't work.

2. I've been collecting HD DVD's and encoding them to .mkv at a decent bitrate to get the size down to about DVD-9 for 1080p (using ripbot). I would like to combine a couple of these movies to a single 25GB blu-ray for play on my PS3. I also want to create menus.

3. What would be the steps to rip a blu-ray movie complete with no downsampling? Is it a matter of just copying the M2TS file straight to the HDD? I have AnyDVD HD installed. Without AnyDVD, is it possible to browse the blu-ray movie folder on the disc and copy the file and play the file on another device, like the Popcorn Hour?

Is there any consumer software that would allow me to author a blu-ray disc? If so, how user-friendly are they?

 

This is the patch: http://www.videohelp.com/download/AVCHD-Patcher_1.06.rar

As for the 24f setting. You need to go to the settings menu of your player and see if you have it at all, and if yes, see if it is enabled. If it is, turn it off.

 

Hello all,

I am knew to the bluray modding. i have read but can't find...

Question:

1- what are 2 good bluray burners?

2- what 2 types of bluray blank discs are the preferred when copying a movie?

thanx for any help you can give guys

 

[/quote]It will not play properly, you need to convert to 1280x720 for it to be in Blu-Ray format.[/quote]

ok, i tried to read this thread pretty well and it gave me a headache because i'm getting an incorrect resolution which may be giving me a green bar on my bd-r.

so, how can i correct my resolution of a 1080-based matroska file so that way i can burn it to a bd-r w/ out the green bar being seen on my PS3?

 

hello.

i am trying to make a perfect 1080p mkv from a blu-ray i own. but i am out of ideas pretty much on how to solve my problem with my encoded mkv staying in sync with the audio. i've tried muxing a TrueHD file i ripped into a converted AC-3 file to be used in the mkv. and muxing the TrueHD file into a converted flac file. for the flac i get errors in eac3to. both were failures. and whenever i make a converted audio file i get a message in eac3to saying "this track is not clean." i tried "delaycut" for that but it doesn't seem to do anything cause it doesn't report any errors.

i've been told by many people on boards that my computer is up to the job to do this kind of procedure so it isn't that it's not powerful enough. i'm so close to figuring this out. if there is any info that is required to provide to help solve my problem please let me know. i certainly someone can help me figure this time. cause i commented on this thread in the past and no one answered my other question. thanks.

 

How are you processing the audio? I suggest transcoding to FLAC directly from the disc in your drive using eac3to. If by chance your BD disc is a seamless branching BD (main movie on several m2ts files) there are no demuxers that can properly fix the gaps/overlaps and demux to TrueHD, this could be why your track is "not clean". However eac3to can do this for LPCM, so demuxing the TrueHD track to LPCM, then converting that track to FLAC will most certainly fix your issue.