Rippig BD > DVD

Previously I'd only used makeMKV for ripping BDs, perhaps I took handbrake's claim to be unable to rip protected content at face value?

Seeing that handbrake has a new v1.1 out, I've just installed it for a look, once all the gstreamer/aacs libraries and aacs keydb were in place, it was easy enough to start a BD->DVD res copy, the inbuilt preview looks like it would help with chapter/track selection.

I've left all the selections at default (apart from turning off subtitles which looked like it was going to require a second pass of the whole disc) and will see how it gets on ...

Well the default selection made the same mistake that makemkv did (selected the 'making of' rather than the main film when converting Inception)

That sounds like a nice feature.

If it has sound, agreed. I generally used the default settings and seem to only now have just the film and the English stereo soundtrack.

Look forward to the results. ;-)

The only gotcha might be my reading of 'it depends what order the audio tracks come up' as to which one you get. Working on the basis track 1 *wasn't* what I wanted (as seen by Handbrake), I went for another one.

Cheers, T i m

It does seem it's quite a 'craft' eh? ;-)

Cheers, T i m

I tend to use it with AnyDVD HD - that makes all DVD/BD look unprotected, so you can handbrake from the disc direct rather than ripping it first.

Is it available on torrents, or nzb etc? If so, maybe just download it? I'm not sure if it's legal to do that in your case, mind . . .

When I first ran AnyDVD I was confused what it did as it doesn't seem to have a straight app as such, you have the settings screen and then you run things from the system-tray icon.

I just played the DVD I burned last night on the Mrs's PC and whilst it works (video is good, audio is correct and good), it seems the colours are out with people having purple faces etc? ;-(

I'll try doing what you suggest as that will make the process a bit quicker.

Cheers, T i m

I would have thought so.

Whilst I could, I was actually seeing if I could do-it-myself for the S&G's etc.

If I have seen (and / or recorded) something off the TV or have the (VHS) video or BD and want to store it on a DVD, I can't see any moral issues in doing so as I understand the rights are on the content that I've already seen / have stored already?

Different though from say having it in DVD form and then downloading the BD version as you would be 'enjoying' a better quality than that you had already got etc?

Even if you had it on VHS, you can often buy 4 DVD's for a pound in the charity shops so I'm not sure how much extra revenue the owner would gain from that?

Cheers, T i m

I'd never used handbrake before, this is on linux, with libaacs and a keydb.cfg installed, handbrake just ripped direct from the BD drive to a .mkv file