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How to rip blu ray movies to an external HD and play them on my ps3
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26. July 2008 @ 00:44 |
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Hi everyone. I am new to this and, what I would like to try to do is this. Hope you can help!! I would like to see if I can rip a blu ray movies on to an external hard drive on my pc. Then I would like to take my external hard drive and plug it to my ps3, and watch the movies from there. I figure if I get a huge storage hard drive, I can store my movies on to it, instead of burning them to a disc. Someone please help me out.
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kpuz
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26. July 2008 @ 16:19 |
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get the Swiss army knife and install it on otheros, it will let you rip blurays to any ext2/3 formatted hdd.
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prodigy00
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26. July 2008 @ 16:50 |
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how would you play the movie on the PS3 then?
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27. July 2008 @ 01:12 |
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Well its like ripping a dvd to my comuter. If I open it with windows media player. It will play the movie ripped to my folder. Think how good it would be to store lots of blu ray movies on a hard drive and play them on your ps3 by selecting your movie from the menu. Im not sure if its possible or not. Thats why i am asking the pros.
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kpuz
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29. July 2008 @ 20:35 |
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extract the video and audio streams and multiplex them into an m2ts files and transfer to your ps3 via a media server. Do you have the files ripped to your external hdd?
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29. July 2008 @ 21:31 |
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Hi and thanks for helping out. Yes I have it ripped to my hard drive. But can you be a little more specific. Thanks
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kpuz
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29. July 2008 @ 23:49 |
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Ok, I haven't actually done this myself but it should be possible. What kind of files do you have on your external hdd after ripping?
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30. July 2008 @ 00:47 |
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I am using Anydvdhd to rip blu-rays on to my HDD. Inside the folder, there are a bunch of files. But in the stream folder there are files that say 00000.MT2S 00001.MT2S and so on. The largest file is like 25gb, which is the main movie. I can open this file with cyberlink powerdvd. and the movie plays on my pc with sound and all. Just wish I can do the same with my Ps3. Hope this info was helpful for you.
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ooZEROoo
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30. July 2008 @ 13:59 |
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The problem with the m2ts container is that on ps3 it is very picky about the audio stream that it will take. To make a m2ts container work off of a HDD you will need to convert the video to AVC and the audio to AC3.
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30. July 2008 @ 22:22 |
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Thanks for your help ooZEROoo. So how do I convert to avc and ac3. After these conversion. Do I just plug my hard drive to my ps3? It is already in fat32
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kpuz
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31. July 2008 @ 02:28 |
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You might not have to convert the video. If the video is mpeg then you can use tsmuxer to multiplex the video into an m2ts container along with ac3 audio and play it. If the video is vc1, then you'll have to convert the audio to wma2 and then multiplex the video along with the audio into a wmv container. I was able to do this with one of my movies and it worked like a charm. Let us know what type of video is in the m2ts file that is 25gigs.
Oh, and to convert the audio to ac3 you can use eac3togui.
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p6889k
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31. July 2008 @ 09:35 |
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Originally posted by kpuz:
If the video is vc1, then you'll have to convert the audio to wma2 and then multiplex the video along with the audio into a wmv container. I was able to do this with one of my movies and it worked like a charm.
kpuz,
can you please give some detail on what tools you used to transcode AC3 to wma and then to multiplex in wmv. Also, was your PS3 able to play/stream wmv file bigger than 4GB. I can stream m2t and mpeg files above 4GB, but mp4 files still have the 4GB limitations. Not sure about wmv. Wmv used to have 2GB limit.
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kpuz
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31. July 2008 @ 12:46 |
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I played a 7gig vc1 file after multiplexing it into a wmv and it worked. I used ffmpeg to convert ac3 to wma (ffmpeg -i audio.ac3 -ab 192k -ac 2 -acodec wmav2 output.wav).
Before you remux into an m2ts container you should download, vc1conv, vc12avi, solveigmm asf muxer (demo version), virtualdubmod and graphedit.
Open the video with vc1conv and convert the video.
Open the converted video with vc12avi and run the app. This will give you 2gb chunks of your video in avi format.
Now open virtualdubmod and open the first avi video and join the rest together using the file -> append segment feature (note, once you append the second segment, virtualdubmod will automatically append the rest for you). Now save as a full avi file (which should be the size of your original vc1 file, this can take a few minutes)
Now open graphedit, go to Graph -> insert filters -> directshow filters -> File source (async) and choose the large avi file you just created. Then open the wma file using File source (async) again. Now insert (again from directshow filters) avi splitter and join the output from the avi file to the input of the avi splitter. Now insert the solveigmm asf multiplexer filter, it will prompt you to choose an output file name and location. When you have done that, join the output from the AVI splitter to the input of the asf multiplexer. Now join the wma output to the input of the asf multiplexer. Now everything is set and you have to press that little play button near the top and the muxing will start. Periodically check the size of your output file to see if the multiplexing has finished since graphedit will not tell you when it's done.
Let me know if you have any problems.
edit: make sure you do this with a small chunk of the original vc1 file just to see if it works. I have tried this method in the past with a few files to no avail; but it has worked recently so I'm thinking it might have something to do with the ps3 updates.
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p6889k
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31. July 2008 @ 12:54 |
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Thanks, I'll give it a try.
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jr2647
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1. August 2008 @ 14:50 |
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Is there a program to shrink a blu ray file while ripping to aHDD with a blu ray reader? I have anydvd and cloneDVD but can seem to use the clone DVD for anything in blu ray.
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2. August 2008 @ 21:58 |
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Where can I find out how to use tsmuxer. Is there a link to show screenshots on how to use this tool. I am getting close. So far I did something very simple. I ripped pirates of the caribbean. I dragged and dropped a small raw mt2s file into my hard drive. And it played on my ps3. How cool that was to see.Ps3 forums are saying that the new update can now read mt2s files. Anyway i need to take the whole movie mt2s file and split it down to 4gb each in order to play on the ps3. Once I do that I think Im set. But I need more info on how to use this tool called tsmuxer. Can anyone help. Thanks
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2. August 2008 @ 22:05 |
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By the way kpuz. The video type avc. I know vc-1 i a liitle more complicated. But I will try with avc first.
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kpuz
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3. August 2008 @ 12:10 |
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I think avc should play without any conversion's or multiplexing required. As for tsmuxer, its actually pretty simple to use. Just download and play around with it.
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3. August 2008 @ 20:02 |
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I just want to revise my question to all, maybe I havent explained my self correctly. Ok, here is what I am doing. First i rip an original AVC codec blu ray to my hard drive using Anydvdhd. (I rip it into a folder named what ever the movie is titled). After ripping, inside the folder there are 2 folders called BDMV and CERTIFICATE. I go into BDMV>STREAM, and inside stream, there are mt2s files. One which is the main movie at around 32gb. I make sure its the main movie cause I load it and preview it with cyberlink powerdvd, with audio and all. My question is I need to know excactly how to split the main movie with full 5.l audio into a folder in my external hard drive at 4gb parts of the movie, because FAT32 drives handle 4gb of space per part. This is where I need advise, to guide me with this next step using a program I believe may be tsmuxer or any other tool you would recommend. I am not to good at using these tools. So I need more details if you can. I know this can work. Just to let you know, When I went inside the stream folder I dragged and dropped one of those mt2s files into my external hard drive and it played flawless on my ps3. The file was about 1gb. It was a preview of a coming attraction. I hope I made this easy for you to understand. Thanks for your reply.
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kpuz
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3. August 2008 @ 23:18 |
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Open tsmuxer, click on Add and add your m2ts file. In the box below (labelled Tracks), you will see all the streams (video, audio, and subtitles) that are present in the m2ts file. Check the ones that you want in the final m2ts file that you create. Make sure m2ts is selected as the output (not ts) before you start to mux the new file. If you want to split the file, go to the split and cut tab and choose by split every x Gb (you should choose 4). Then click start muxing and wait.
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