![]() ![]() ![]() This is a piece of hardware that streams video from the server(HTPC) to another box to allow me to watch the same movies in another room in the house. I take it one step further however, and need these files to play on a media extender as well. My major motivation, like you is to get a collection into a HTPC. My preference, this makes the file larger, but hopefully I will see something. But I keep putting this track in my MKV's hoping that some day I will get to use it. For instance I'm not sure if we have a free open source codec for HD-DTS yet(I haven't found one). Some have codecs that work well, some do not. VC1, MPEG4, H264 to name a few video formats, and several Audio as well. Understand there are several Video/audio formats being used by Bluray. Transcoding it will make it more flexible. Yes, the raw file is very large, and the best quality your going to get out of the disk. I've been doing this for nearly 4 years, and I can only think of maybe 2 disks that I could just not get to go. But very occasionally you'll get that disk that just won't work. These troubles usually get corrected with subsequent updates. You can see the threads in this forum about one-off disks that people are having troubles getting MKV to rip itself, and even I have had troubles with newer disks that won't rip either. AnyDVD has been my one-stop encryption remover for years, so, I didn't stop using it with MakeMKV. Trouble is, that that file is very Raw/Large, and could use some compression. I'm not going to argue with some of the deep technical aspects of what MKV is doing, but as far as I see, MakeMKV is like copying a file from one disk to another, and placing the video in an MKV container. If there are any other links or advice you could share with me I would be very appreciative. And that is where I assume something like XVid4psp would come into play? Full HD, or converting from 1080P to 720P would be nice. ![]() Therefore I'm looking for high quality since storage is so cheap. Like many who use this, I'm trying to build myself a video library that I can watch without reaching for a plastic disc. Does this mean that MakeMKV is effective in removing copy protection on DVDs and BluRay, or is there another program required to convert some discs? Since MakeMkv is not a transcoder does this mean that there is no quality loss during a straight conversion from a DVD or BluRay to an MKV file?Īlso, you mention AnyDVD and MakeMKV with regard to copy protection. I do have a question or two for you as a follow up. As I mentioned, I'm new to this so you provided a good clear explanation of how things actually work. MoreCowBell wrote:Thanks for the reply Spook. ![]() AnyDVD has become very expensive since I bought it years ago, so, this is a good viable option. But for many that aren't using AnyDVD, it serves the other purpose of breaking the encryption so the movie can be removed from the disk. MakeMKV helps simplify the process of getting the video off the disk, and into an MKV wrapper for me. But this gets what I need done, and I can view my videos on my HTPC. I've recently(in the past 6-8months) gone down this road, and Im sure I'm missing allot. So, I can demux the DTS track from the original MakeMKV rip, and mux it back into an MKV wrapper using mkvmerge. I myself like to keep the original DTS tracks intact from bluray rips(I can't use them yet, but someday). The two of these programs let you open the MKV wrapper, and see what Audio/Video/subtitles are inside. So, once you have the video ripped from the disk, you transcode/convert it with Xvid4psp(or some other transcoder)Ī couple other programs you may be interested in are TSMuxer, and mkvmerge. Its free, and its initial purpose of transcoding to psp files has long since been surpassed. To Transcode there are many many programs out there, I personally use a nice simple tool I found called XVid4psp. it is a ripper, it gets the data off the disk on to your hard drive, in an MKV wrapper. Now, that being said, MakeMKV is not a Transcoder. H264 gets places into an MKV package, along with an audio track, AC3 (Dolby) or DTS, and other things, like subtitles. Ok, just a little clarification for you, MKV is a wrapper, much like a zip, or iso file ![]()
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