Nice Extreme... except I have a Blu Ray with over 200 files in the STREAM folder, all of which appear to be individual parts to the movie. The largest is 6g, but is a scene from 1/4 of the way in. Any suggestions as to how to put these together?? (Its Wall-E)

TA

Open the largest file with ripbot264. It will then find the correct files and ordering and output a single mkv video file and an audio file. you can then remux the files together.

this is a heads up that:

dvdfab will also now (albeit beta) do all the steps 1 down to 9 as well.

Just as an extra few bits to add (albeit REALLY late, as I didn't notice this thread earlier), if all you want is the movie, and don't need the extra BD features like menus, then you can save a lot of space without sacrificing any quality (or time) by reencoding, simply by remuxing to mkv.

All you need to do after you've ripped the disc (and trust me, you CAN use the computer for other things in the meantime, be it solitaire or Crysis while doing this), import the main m2ts file into TSMuxer, unselect everything except the video track and the main audio track (you can select other tracks as well if you want) and click the demux option (downmix to dts or ac3 if you wish, same way as ExtremePC described).

This should leave you with the elementary streams saved as raw .264 (or was it .h264?) and .ac3 or .dts or whatever. You can now import these files into mkvmerge and mux into an mkv (make sure you specify the frame rate of your movie - probably 23.976fps - as the elementary stream won't contain the elementary stream info, otherwise mkvmerge will just assume 25fps).

The advantages of this method are that you save not only the space taken up by all the extra tracks, but also the unnecesary overhead taken up by the m2ts container, which will be about 10% bigger than the total of the tracks it contains. On a BD movie, this can be around 2GB of wasted space. You also don't lose ANY quality as you haven't reencoded anything, it is bit for bit identical to the original, just in a different container.

All up, it should only take a few minutes. Your resultant mkv should be below 20GB depending on the bitrate of the original movie (my mkv of The Prestige is 16.7 GB). You won't get as small a file as the reencoding suggested by extreme, but it's quicker and easier. Which method is better for you really depends on how much space you have, and how lazy you are.

Hey ExtremePC

Read your article on "Backing Up your Blu-Ray Movies" and have been following all the steps. Could you help me with this prob that i have encountered?
1. I ran tsMuxer to extract the audio from my bluray disk but at point 15. i can't find any boxes that say downconvert but i selected the dts file and got it muxing.
2. Got all they way thru to point 30. and was able to add the video (mpg4 media file) i converted but am unable to add the audio (the ts file) i extracted as it wont show up in the files available to add.

Hope that makes sense and any ideas to help me fix this??

or you can use a tool called DVDFAB.

www.dvdfab.com

it is in the throws of doing BD+ disks, however they have a feature to rip the blu ray disk and then compress it down further all in one application.

might be work a try!

Anyone help? I have a system that is using Windows 7 64 bit here in Asutralia. I have hundreds of home videos going back amany many years and I wish to save thyese to Blu-Ray disks.

My current camera is full Hi Definition and I wish to buy an economical blu-ray burner that will be able save my old shots as well as the hi definition shots in full quality to disk. The high definition camera has 5.1 sound.l
Anyone had any experience with economical blu-ray burners? IE what brand and model?