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Bluray ripping on Linux (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi folks. Recently I have ripped some Blurays that I bought because I couldn't find them online. I'm using MakeMKV for that and it does a fine job decrypting discs to my harddrive. Most discs have a single or maybe two or three m2ts files that I could then convert to a mp4/mkv file afterwards using Handbrake.

However, some of the Blurays have a lot of m2ts files (in BDMV/STREAM) that need to be combined to a single result. From what I understand this is not mainly the film industry making my life hard on purpose, but there are different localizations of the videos in place (german, english, french, etc.).

I know there are playlist files in a separate folder (BDMV/PLAYLIST), and they probably are used to link all those video files together in the correct order. But I cannot seem to find tooling to read these files (in a Linux environment, that is).

I might not have the optimal ripping/converting process in place, yet - actually I'm pretty sure of that. But also I can't find much more useful information, right now. Is anybody able to help me here? I really don't want to go through hundreds of file manually, for some discs.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

MakeMKV can rip straight to .MKV files so you don’t need to use handbreak at all unless you want to compress it.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Does that mean it is lossless, if you rip to MKV with MakeMKV?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago

Yes it is lossless.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That is correct.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Yes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I have in fact never used MakeMKV in that way, I've always used the backup option. That makes it a lot easier, thanks so much for pointing me into the right direction!