Hey all you Gurus, Picked up a Blu-Ray burner a couple weeks ago, and am now on the hunt for the most current and easy Blu-Ray backup steps.. I already have the AnyDVD software (with Blu-Ray), but after that point, from what I am seeing, it gets crazy. I picked up some 25GB blanks, but of course the movies I have are all on 45GB discs, so direct 1-to-1 backups aren't happening. I mean, I thought by now there would be some kind of a decent one-step process, kind of like CloneDVD2, but it is looking like the bad old days of having to use like 7 different programs in various steps in order to rip, compress, patch, compress and burn.. but a lot of what I am seeing out there from searching seems like info that is 3 years old. So maybe I am just not looking in the right spots. Adding a 2nd PS3 upstairs, so I want to be able to backup my Blu-Rays, but going through all that, and then having to *experiment* with blanks that are almost 2 bucks a pop, ouch. Don't want to have to make too many coasters at that price. Thanks in advance
Please. Go to Hollywood or Blockbuster and rent a Blu-Ray, they want like 6 bucks each just for the rental, something silly like that, plus another 2 bucks for a blank. Like I want to go to all that trouble to try to pirate some movie that I can buy at Walmart for like $14, and have the case and all the extras. It's not worth it. Yes, backups. 9-year-olds messing with my Blu-Rays is not something I want, but I sure as heck don't want to have to buy them twice. Fie on you, Mr. Cynical !
makemkv - converts blu ray to mkv mkv2vob - converts mkv to a file that can be burned onto bluray disc and played on ps3.
Get multiAVCHD 3.0 - also, sign up on their form. It's a wizard-like program that takes any "backup" and writes a Blu-ray movie and even puts it on the disc for you. On this software you can add your own menus and edit subtitles and stuff like that. You can do this after makemkv makes a blu ray. From movies I have backed up myself to movies people have given me on blu-ray, I have made "backups" also. I'm curious. What movie is 45GB? That sounds CRAZY. EDIT: If you must make those fit (that's what she said), you will need to compress the audio (or change channels into 2 or 5) or video, or maybe both.
^^^ So you're just "understanding"... but you don't "have" a 45GB Blu-ray movie? Anyway... WTF!?!?!?! http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs...10151&langId=-1&categoryId=27903&N=4294966107 A BLANK Blu-ray Disc is more expensive than a Blu-ray movie? DOES NOT COMPUTE. Spoiler Here you go, Nero: http://www.mysimon.com/prices/tdk-2x-bd-re-double-layer-media-50gb-120mm-standard-1-pack for $25.
What??!? Nah... you can get blank blu-rays for $2 each now. http://www.supermediastore.com/prod...write-once-4x-25gb-bd-r-single-layer-media-15 But I'm still waiting for the prices to drop even more.
^ no, I meant that for selling blank discs at that price... Sony is sort of... how you say it... DUMB? There will still be people buying discs from them directly. :grin:
No, I know the one I fiddled with on my initial tries was a 45GB , and it was nothing special, it was The Ugly Truth, and it was 45GB.. and the various guides I have seen have all said (sort of in passing) that the released movies on Blu-Ray are on 45GB discs, so to put them on 25GB media, therein arises the need for the compression. But like I said, some of these guides I am seeing are 2 -3 years old, so things may be different now.
If you are going to compress it, you're going to lose quality. If im not mistaken, you need to have a double sided blue ray burner to use those 45GB disks.
OK, I thought you were just reading, but never saw it yourself. Or the length of an average movie or how much space it takes may have increased. *Avatar. According to WikiPedia, here are 100GB discs out there, though... you learn something every day.
I thought about that, but if I wanted to have the menus and extras, I could only put maybe 25 movies on a whole TB disk, just not good value there. Won't be long before TB is the new GB
