With trial and error. IT seems like BD rebuilder is the best bet to make compress it to 25gig blu ray disk. I used Tmuxer and Ripbot but BD rebuilder has not let me down so far.
My Set up
1.Rip using Anydvd HD (REgistered)
2.Use BD rebuilder to compressto 25 gig disk. i usually keep dts and english sub. output to bd disk format. THis step might take a while 6 to 12 hours depends on movie and computer.
3. Make ISO file with imgburn. put the bdmv and cert folder in.
4. Burn ISO to Blank BD disk with img burn.
So far im 6/6 using this steps. Benjamin button was one of them and it took the longest cuz the movie is 2:45 min long.but quality is near same that u cant notice.
PS also noticed to have mulitple HDD will help cuz wont over bear one HD from readin and writing at the same time. this will improve compression of files faster.
Try using a dual-layer DVD to compare your results. I have compared a few dual-layer DVDs with 25Gb BD blanks and I can't see any difference. Plus dual-layers take up less HD space and are cheaper.
Tmuxer is good but its only good when u know the Video + audio is less then 23 gigs. Majority of movies i ripped the Video file alone is 25gig+.
Plus Seems like Some Movie stream file are spliced(segments of movie are in differnt files) Usualy you see that the video file is biggest file in the stream folder but last 2 ripps i did the movie was split in to 5 to 6 differnt files.
and i dont think Tmuxer has a option to put them together.
Thats why BD rebuilder is better in some way. it will figure out the right order of stream and take cares of the encoding of each file on its own. Only problem i had with BD rebuilder was with WALLe the initial "walt Disney" segment was not right.. but the movie part was correct
Originally posted by binmax: Try using a dual-layer DVD to compare your results. I have compared a few dual-layer DVDs with 25Gb BD blanks and I can't see any difference. Plus dual-layers take up less HD space and are cheaper.
Senth,
What you could try is getting the rip down to main movie,+ 1Audio and 1 sub to see if it comes down to the Single layer BD-R disc size quite quickly before you re-encode it with BD Rebuilder which takes quite a while.
I see you have AnydvdHD like me, so with Vista (or the ToshibaUDF drivers installed on XP)you can rip and strip at the same time staright from the disc.
I use Clown BD which is a GUI pulling together the useful elements of EAC3to, TS Muxer and IMGBurn. Clown bd will run these programs straight of the disc or the rip on your HD.
The last one I did took 1.5 hours from start to a 23 gig shrunk iso.
I take the opportunity to extract the DTS core (can be encoded at the same time to AC3 5.1 )from True HD tracks cause the audio file is then much smaller too and my audio system only does Dolby/DTS 5.1 anyway and still sounds great.
You could pause at the Imgburn part, see how big the file folder is, and if needed put it through BD rebuilder to get it smaller.
On the DVD-9 side, i have done this once so far from an already shrunk iso of a recent bond film.
The result of coming down from 40 ish Gig to 8.5 gig was definately not as good as the proper DVD would have been, but not bad.
That took just under 3 hours (add on the original shrink time down to Main movie, 1 audio, 1 sub)
Actually, the above is quicker than i thought.
I put a bluray in the drive and started Clown_BD.
Went out for two hours. Came back and I had a 17gig iso of it on my hard drive.
Great!
