[mythtv-users] Rip or play Blu-Ray

Nick Rout nick.rout at gmail.com
Fri May 15 04:28:24 UTC 2015


On Fri, May 15, 2015 at 2:07 PM, Jeff Siddall <news at siddall.name> wrote:
> On 05/12/2015 05:11 PM, Jay Foster wrote:
>>
>> On 5/12/2015 1:49 PM, Karl Newman wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> My wife mistakenly bought a Blu-Ray-only copy of "Gone with the Wind",
>>> and we don't have a Blu-Ray player. I do, however have a Blu-Ray drive
>>> in my Myth frontend/backend. Is there a way to rip (preferred) or play
>>> Blu-Ray discs in Linux? Yes, I realize players are super cheap now,
>>> and that may end up being the solution, but I'd like to try to make it
>>> work. In general, how are people ripping them (regardless of
>>> platform)? MakeMKV?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Karl
>>>
>
>> Two thumbs up for MakeMKV.  As a bonus, with MakeMKV, your movie will
>> start playing right away.  No waiting for menus to load like with a BD
>> player.
>> Jay
>
>
> I agree with what everyone else says about MakeMKV rips and MythTV playing
> them.
>
> While the "start playing right away" thing is a feature of sorts, as far as
> I can tell there is no way to access bonus features etc. that are in the
> menus.  Can anyone recommend a way to get to a BD menu if that is desired?

There is some menu support in kodi I think. But you can rip or play
all the titles with makemkv. Identifying which title is what can be
difficult.


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