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Post by oppman99 on Dec 7, 2014 10:44:59 GMT -5
How does one rip AUDIO blu-rays? Are these the same as SACDs? Do a search for a program called Bluray Audio Extractor. I bought the DVD Audio Extractor from the same company and it works great. Been a while since I looked at it, but it used to have a free trial period. |
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Post by Priapulus on Dec 7, 2014 10:56:35 GMT -5
I've experimented with several different video rippers over the years, but thanks to this thread I just downloaded the newest version of MakeMKV and ~~paid~~ for it. I ripped the Blu-ray "Salmon Fishing in the Yemen" and it worked perfectly. I was dismayed to see the file was 14 gigs, about 7 times larger that my usual file. Before trying to compress it, I watched some of it. It was breathtaking. Faint wisps of tobacco smoke, and other details I'd never seen before. Amazing...
You can be sure there will be no compression for me in the future. And MakeMKV worked simply and flawlessly.
Sincerley
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Post by petew on Dec 7, 2014 11:38:04 GMT -5
I'm new to ripping. Tried DVDfab and MakeMKV and have settled on MakeMKV for now. Forced ads and trailers and the hassle of switching aspect ratios on my projection system is what pushed me into using the HTPC instead of fussing with silver discs. Getting away from discs is making my theater feel like a theater, not a big TV room. I want to be able to sit down with my guests and punch up a movie from the ipad without having to fuss with anything (and cuss at stupid disc authoring).
I set my Nvidia graphics card to use 1920 x 820 resolution on the HDMI out, zoomed the projector to fill the 2.40 screen, and let Kodi (aka XBMC) do the scaling to shrink 16:9 HD content into 820 lines. So far it's working great! I've got a learning curve with Kodi and still need to build a good iRule profile for it.
I'm decoding DD and DTS audio on the HTPC and passing multichannel PCM to my shiny new UMC-200 multichannel DAC via HDMI.
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Post by yves on Dec 7, 2014 14:05:44 GMT -5
After ripping it with AnyDVD HD, I just remux it into an .mkv file. www.dvd-guides.com/guides/blu-ray-rip/256-remux-blu-ray-to-mkvThe DTS-HD MA data gets bitstreamed over HDMI by using LAV Audio Decoder with the Bitstreaming option set to enabled. With this option set to enabled, LAV Audio Decoder does not decode the audio to PCM. Instead, my UMC-200 decodes the DTS HD-MA bitstream (i.e., the front display of my UMC-200 reports 'DTS-HD Master Audio' when the playback starts). LAV Audio Decoder is part of LAV Splitter, which nowadays is a built-in feature of MPC-HC. The video renderer that I use in MPC-HC is madVR. |
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