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

hmm interesting. i will research these players. thanks for the tip. let me ask you tho odin, is PS3's as good as everyone says they are? i mean i do like a lot the fact that they have constant firmware updates for the latest features added to the system. i was gonna wait till they have that rumored price drop to $300 on the PS3. i believe it's for the 60 GB model. i like having the best and have top of the line quality in my home entertainment. i keep hearing people rave about PS3 being one of the best blu-ray players out there.

 

Here's the deal... I love my PS3, cause it's perfect for my situation. I have a BD burner, I rent alot, but I do not have much time to watch my movies.... nor do I want to spend a fortune on BD blanks... or re-writables (I have a few though).

What I do is archive all of my rips (main movie only) on my 1TB external, I use AVCHD Mananger (search Doom9 forum for info) and play directly from my external HDD to my PS3, no streaming. There's no recoding involved at this point, I keep the untouched video and HD audio and mux using tsMuxeR splitting @ 4GB chunks, cause the PS3 only recognizes FAT32 drives, which have a limit of 4GB per file. I delete them afterwards, or archive them to DVD9 if I can compress without losing quality. If it's a keeper and I cannot compress I'll wait and buy used.

If my PS3 ever broke down I'd be screwed!!! I'd like a standalone too for the wife and kids cause the PS3 is way beyond them.

 

So i have a question i tried to do what you said with quantum of solace but i couldnt get it under 25gb, so would I use bd rebuilder to compress it in this case??

 

i have a BD burner as well. i also rent a lot too (Netflix). i've never burned onto a BD blank yet tho. one 25 GB one came with my burner tho but i wanna save it for something i really need burnt that fits that capacity. but personally when i rent something or rip something i like to have all that was on the disc like the extras. so if i were to rip just the movie i would miss the extras. that's just me tho. i will check out that AVCHD manager proggy anyway. i plan on selling alot of stuff like comics on Craigslist soon so hopefully after i get done with that i will have the money for a PS3. cause i really like what i hear and read about them.

thanks for sharing that info with me odin. even tho you couldn't solve my problem with the mkv thing you've still been a big help.

cheers!

 

No prob. Double check your BD that came with your drive, it might be a BD-RE (re-writeable).

 

ah. i forgot about that. it is BD-RE. good to know. thanks.

 

Hey Ryu, you've been more than helpful in helping me encode to AVCHD onto regular dvd media. I have a question though that I cannot seem to clear up by reading the forums and all the information you've given. I am not quite clear on what the difference between BD-5, BD-9s, and AVCHD is.

I simply thought BD-9 for example was just a bluray encoded to fit onto a dual layer dvd in the AVCHD format. The reason I am bringing this up is because I read all kinds of reports about players playing AVCHD, but not BD-9 and so on.

I wanted to know what encoding profiles of yours makes the best compatible AVCHD for standalone blu-ray players. I ask this because I do not think my bluray player will last forever and wanted to encode mine so that they would have a good chance to work in any future blu-ray player I get. Thanks for any information you can provide.

 

There are a few things that differentiate between BD-5, BD-9 & AVCHD. However the most notable being the initial buffer and peak bitrate. Blu-ray has a higher tolerance here. BD-5/BD-9 pushes the AVCHD format beyond it's standard specification. The buffer and bitrate are more aligned with the Blu-ray spec.

Some players can play these discs with no problem while others do not. A DVD needs to spin much faster to transfer the increased amount of data. Some drives are simply not built for it.

My most recent profiles have altered the BD-5 & BD-9 encoding parameters to be more in line with AVCHD spec.

 

Thank you very much Ryu for explaining that. I believe I am clear on that now. So is it safe to say all of your encoding profiles are more in the spec of AVCHD, or just the ones with AVCHD in the name?

 

The newer ones "are" the ones labelled with AVCHD in the name of the profile.

 

so ive been reading everywhere how do you turn a .mkv into a blueray file so i can use bd rebuilder to compress to a dvd-9 thanks

 

Doesn't BD-Rebuilder accept MKV as input? If not, remux your MKV with tsMuxeR to Blu-ray first, then use BD-Rebuilder.

 

thanks works perfect

 

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I recently encoded(menus and all) Friday the 13th(1980)which was on a BD-50 to a BD-25 with BD-Rebuilder and its look remarkable.However i tried the same thing(menus and all) but I wanted the target size to be a BD-9,it did fine, but i get no menus with it,even though i selected full backup. Anyone knows why,or am i doing something wrong?Thanks.

Ok,after further review the menus and extras are on the BD-9,however the menus are on as a still frame.I`m using my PS3 to play this BD-9 and it doesn't auto start,so i have to go under video and the disc comes up as a data disc,so i click on there.. I see my my BDMV and Certificate folder. If i click on BDMV,all these other files open up,including steam. I know the movie is in the stream folder.. I can play the main movie from there. Is there is way i can merge this,so it can start with the menu first?Thanks in advance.

 

I have been reading a lot of the current discussion, and wonder if you may be able to help me.?
I ripped Rambo 4 Blu-ray with Anydvd.hd. Then run it through BDinfo and got my main movie files, which I wrote down and then placed in TS-Muxer, I muxed it to a TS then converted it and burnt it with ConvertXvid to DVD onto a DVD-R5.
The problem I keep getting is I am unable to get rid of the directors audio, and not the main audio.
I have tried many different ways of making this backup, but with no success.
I had good success with "Öpen Season", and "Doom"
Please has anyone got any ideas

Thanks in advance

 

hi i have a lg blu ray burner i want to burn blu rays
i want to know if you know how to compressed a 50gig blu ray to a 25 gig with all the features thank you

 

Try BD-Rebuilder.

 

hello,

i am a NEWBIE at this.
since the last post i am editing this. i have used SAK( swiss army knife) to extract the bluray iso via trhe ps3 unto my hardrive over the network. how do i convert the bluray ISO into say mkv ?? or is their a better format to convert the iso into that keep the quality at its best?

i have been looking for guides and info but seems harder than i thought to do.