Why Do You Need to Rip Blu-Ray Disc to your Hard Drive?
Ripping Blu-Ray to your hard drive is not something that you do out of fancy. Bear in mind that it is a daunting task which even requires you to purchase software. Basically, you would want to rip Blu-Ray DVDs to convert them to formats compatible for playback on your iPod, iPhone, PSP, and other media players. You may also want to create a back-up copy of the Blu-Ray disc without losing its video quality. Whatever your reason is, the most important thing to remember is that you should own the Blu-Ray Disc that you are ripping. If not, you could be perpetuating video piracy.
What You Need to Rip Blu-Ray Disc to your Hard Drive?
Like we said, ripping a Blu-Ray Disc to your hard drive is a long and tedious task. It requires equipment, which is primarily your Windows PC which should have a Blu-Ray Disc Reader, software which includes ripping software, transcoding utilities, muxing utilities, and most important of all hard drive space.
Recommended ripping software is AnyDVD HD which is available for a trial period of 21 days after which you have to purchase it for $80 to continue using it. As for transcoding utility, you can use RipBot264 for transcoding AVC plus .NET Framework 2.0, avisynth, and ffdshow which are all codec packs. You'll also need the Haali media splitter. These are all freely available. And last you'll need a muxing utility such as tsMuxer. Muxing is the interleaving of an audio and video stream into one transport stream.
How to Rip Blu-Ray to your Hard Drive?
Essentially, the process of ripping Blu-Ray to hard drive involves the following process:
Ripping Blu-Ray Disc - this step involves decoding the Blu-Ray Disc format into a format which can be played by other software such as an H.264 MP file from Blu-Ray's .MPEG AVC.
Transcoding What You Just Ripped - This process involves encoding your rip into another format that would be interpreted by RipBot before converting it to a format that you want. This may either be high-res files or formats supported by Apple TV, PSP, iPhone or iPod and others.
During transcoding and converting of the Blu-Ray video, you may get a not so nice output. That's when you use tsMuxer to fine tune your final output before burning it to your hard drive or to another disc.
All in all, if you get the process right, you'll have your Blu-Ray rip in two hours.
Conclusion
What we have outlined are just the basics of ripping Blu-Ray to your hard drive. If you want a more detailed explanation you can do a Google Search and you'd certainly find many detailed tutorials on how to do it. But so far, the best guide we could find is this.
Ripping Blu-Ray to Hard Drive
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