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I want to digitise my blu rays in HQ, what are my options?
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Reizo Ryuu
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cormack12
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This is just basically installed on a PC yeah? I'm looking for an AIO if possible
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Reizo Ryuu
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Nimbie Blu-ray/DVD Autoloader (NB21-BR) - Acronova
Robotic Blu-ray/CD/DVD disc loader for music ripping, back up, duplication and more.
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Trogdor1123
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Are you looking for specific hardware that will just side step the digital security? Don’t most capture cards allow that?
cormack12
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Basically one device that does it all for me. Imagine a blu ray player and I press copy and it copies to an internal drive then I can play in the future from the internal storage.
Ideally want to avoid nas and plex/kodi if possible
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Think that is called a PC. They still sell Blurays so I don't think any standalone device would be legal.
Audiophile
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Don't know of any singular device that does it in one go.
Your best bet for simplicity is a blu-ray drive and 'makemkv' on a PC. You put the disc in, set a directory, pick all the playlists/videos you want off the disc and hit run; and you'll get a folder with the video/s in. They'll also be full quality remuxes as opposed to re-encodes. So it'll be the same as watching the disc when played back; there'll be no quality loss or additional artefacts, but the file sizes will be significant.
It can do DVD, Blu-ray & 4K UHD Blu-ray.
If you wish to re-encode to save space, I'd recommend using handbrake to encode DVD to AVC @ ~60% the bitrate, Blu-ray to HEVC @ ~80% bitrate and for 4K UHD I'd recommend keeping it as is [at least until VVC/x266 is commonplace] unless you're ok with perceptible quality loss; as the format is already pushing up against it on adequate bitrate.
Alternatively, seeing as you already own the disc/s, you can "acquire" full quality remuxes (and sometimes even full disc images) of the majority of titles from just a handful of sources online, which can sometimes be easier and more straightforward. Folks can cry piracy, but if you already own it I see no moral issue, it's just an easier way for to get the file on your drive. Not using such tools at your disposal would be an arbitrary limitation. I have a large library of physical media, but sometimes rather than faff with setting everything up and ripping, whether it be video or music, I just go grab a bit perfect copy that's online. I sometimes also do this when I've ordered Blu-rays from the US or elsewhere abroad; but want to watch the thing in the interim while waiting (but don't want crappy streaming quality). I also screen problematic masters such as the James Cameron 4Ks to decide whether I wanna hand my money over for it.
Anywho, the makemkv method is very simple. It's pretty close to automated aside from some file copying/renaming. You can also rip out any audio or subtitle tracks you don't want in makemkv (or after the fact in a muxing program).
Personally I copy the entire disc image, drop the index.bdmv file into mkvtoolnixgui, create the video/s. Then create a 7z archive of the disc image; storing it away; and then place the video/s on a USB HDD enclosure plugged into my Blu-ray player.
Your best bet for simplicity is a blu-ray drive and 'makemkv' on a PC. You put the disc in, set a directory, pick all the playlists/videos you want off the disc and hit run; and you'll get a folder with the video/s in. They'll also be full quality remuxes as opposed to re-encodes. So it'll be the same as watching the disc when played back; there'll be no quality loss or additional artefacts, but the file sizes will be significant.
It can do DVD, Blu-ray & 4K UHD Blu-ray.
If you wish to re-encode to save space, I'd recommend using handbrake to encode DVD to AVC @ ~60% the bitrate, Blu-ray to HEVC @ ~80% bitrate and for 4K UHD I'd recommend keeping it as is [at least until VVC/x266 is commonplace] unless you're ok with perceptible quality loss; as the format is already pushing up against it on adequate bitrate.
Alternatively, seeing as you already own the disc/s, you can "acquire" full quality remuxes (and sometimes even full disc images) of the majority of titles from just a handful of sources online, which can sometimes be easier and more straightforward. Folks can cry piracy, but if you already own it I see no moral issue, it's just an easier way for to get the file on your drive. Not using such tools at your disposal would be an arbitrary limitation. I have a large library of physical media, but sometimes rather than faff with setting everything up and ripping, whether it be video or music, I just go grab a bit perfect copy that's online. I sometimes also do this when I've ordered Blu-rays from the US or elsewhere abroad; but want to watch the thing in the interim while waiting (but don't want crappy streaming quality). I also screen problematic masters such as the James Cameron 4Ks to decide whether I wanna hand my money over for it.
Anywho, the makemkv method is very simple. It's pretty close to automated aside from some file copying/renaming. You can also rip out any audio or subtitle tracks you don't want in makemkv (or after the fact in a muxing program).
Personally I copy the entire disc image, drop the index.bdmv file into mkvtoolnixgui, create the video/s. Then create a 7z archive of the disc image; storing it away; and then place the video/s on a USB HDD enclosure plugged into my Blu-ray player.
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ReBurn
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Whenever I rip Blu-Ray I use MakeMKV to convert to MKV and then I use HandBrake to convert to MP4 or whatever compressed format I want for my Plex server. MakeMKV is still in beta since forever, but it is updated frequently and it's free while in beta. You can get updated beta keys from the developer on the forum.
poppabk
Cheeks Spread for Digital Only Future
Havent done it in awhile, but did they ever figure out an automated way of getting past that copy protection where the chapters were all mixed up in a 100 different options and only one of them would be the movie in order?
ReBurn
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They must have because I never hit many of those, and if there is some ambiguity in title the forum usually has a post where someone tells you which title is the right one. A lot of the extraction tools figured out the "Disney" style X project DRM scheme that produces that garbage.
Dural
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This is what you want, but it's pricey.
www.kaleidescape.com
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Yerd
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Vortexbox was an OS that used to exist but it stopped functioning and getting support from whoever was responsible. I haven't looked in a while, but I'm pretty sure it's still gone. You had to have a PC system and this OS installed, so that is technically the device you wanted. You would put a disc in, close the tray and it would rip a movie or CD.
Nowadays I use makemkv like everyone else.
Recently I thought about doing 4k discs, but you have to have certain drives with certain firmware. So you have to either be able to find those drives (which are not easy to come by, because they need to be older versions, I believe) or you buy the drives off of people that already updated the drives. Kind of shady idea to me. I did not want to pay for it. I will deal with 1080p movies only in digitized form.
Nowadays I use makemkv like everyone else.
Recently I thought about doing 4k discs, but you have to have certain drives with certain firmware. So you have to either be able to find those drives (which are not easy to come by, because they need to be older versions, I believe) or you buy the drives off of people that already updated the drives. Kind of shady idea to me. I did not want to pay for it. I will deal with 1080p movies only in digitized form.