[mythtv-users] blu ray rip playback

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com> wrote:
> I have some blu rays that I own which I want to rip to my network.
>
> Currently I'm using makemvk to rip all audio/subs/etc to an mkv.  This
> works well, with two exceptions:
> 1. if I want to keep the directors cut and the normal cut it takes
> twice the space

yes because each is a separate video file

> 2. extras are gone (as are menus, but.... meh?)
>

ripping to mkv does not preserve menus. You are also only ripping the
titles you select.  The extras are generally a different video and
will end up as a separate video file.


> If I simply keep doing what I'm doing it doesn't actually annoy me.
>
> However, I remember that mythtv used to support playing a DVD file rip
> from a VIDEO_TS folder (with all the files that were on the DVD
> already decrypted), and wondered if it would do the same for blu rays.
>  I used makemkv to do a disk folder rip/decription, and was left with
> the blu ray structure.


save to an iso might be the answer.

>
> Mythvideo didn't recognize it, and instead simply showed me the 50-100
> individual little piece files.
>
>
> -does mythtv support blu rays played from a directory structure rip?
> -if so, how do you get it to work?
> -do menus work if you do this?
> -should I bother, or is my current lossless MKV method preferrable?
>
>
> Thanks :)
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