Originally posted by TylerM:

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I need instructions to rip my Blu-ray collection to .mkv container files. My goal is that I have the main film converted to an .mkv file that contains a 1080p video stream and 5.1 surround sound. ALL (that I can see) the tutorials I find don't explain how to get a 1080p video stream and 5.1 surround sound (simple as that) into one .mkv file. There is no burning involved just Blu-ray to .mkv. It seems like the tutorials get you to the point right after ripping the Blu-ray to the hard drive and leave the encoding options up to you without further explanation of what options do what, they lead you to another page and another page, etc. THEN they go on to converting the re-encoded files into an .mkv. It gets you all convuluted... Is there a tutorial that explains exactly what I want?

I purchased AnyDVD HD and downloaded RipBot264 and tsMuxer. I don't know what to do for video encoding options or what audio stream to use, how to get subtitles, etc.

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Originally posted by Ryu77:

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What is your desired target size?

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Originally posted by spitfire_:

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Some keywords, I once took for myself (I used these steps to create an MKV-File that would fit on a DVD-9)

Extraction
- Have AnyDVD running and extract from BD directly, or first rip to HD using AnyDVD
- Use Blu-ray Stream Extractor to extract Movie, audio (subs are better downloaded as SRT from internet-sources) and chapters
- AC3 is preferred if size matters (target = DVD), but DTS also works perfectly

Re-Encoding using MEGui and AviSynth
- Ignore audio
- AC3 tracks can be used directly in the muxxing-step.
- Downsampling AC3 to something other than 640 won't work (at least not on my system)
- Create Avisynth-Script:
- Tools, AviSynth script creator
- choose the extracted video file
- Input DAR automatically correct
- default avisynth profile *scratchpad*
- crop, auto crop: will remove black bars (video will simply be less high,less space wasted)
- Resize: 1280 wide, leafe height empty and instead click suggest Resolution (due to cropping it won't always be 720)
- Apply auto Preview for verification
- Filters: Source type is progressive -> interlase not checked, "do nothing"
- even if analysis suggests something, don't use it! Interlacing a progressive movie results in choppy play.
- Resize Filter Lanczos4 or Lanczos
- May add noise reduction
- Example see below
- make sure "on save close and load to be encoded" is checked!
- Profile selection
- Use Profile x264: Standalone-Blu-ray
- File Format MKV
- Bitrate Calculator
- Tools, Bitrate Calculator
- Add extracted audio tracks here (will only be needed for calculation)!
- Choose Filesize DVD and substract ~1kbit/s from the calculated bitrate to have space for the subtitles
- Apply
- Verify that the new bitrate has been applied to the profile, update the profile (on exit)
- Enque -> go to queue and start
- Careful: FFdshow Encoder options are ignored, but DECODER options will be used! Deactivate every undesired effect
before starting encoding process!

Muxing
- Tools, Muxer, MKV
- Select the compressed video-file, audio-tracks (add by right clicking on Audio 1), subtitle (srt) and chapters
- Choose output file
- queue and start


Playing
- using mediaplayer classic with ffdshow (VLC does not support AVC at the moment)
- For 1280, any output mode will work fluently
- for 1680, modes other than overlay will be jerky (at least on beamer - due to downscaling?). Overlay mode works fluently.


Avisynth-Example script for 1280 * x (HD720)
DirectShowSource("G:\DVDs\Wanted\Versuch 2\1_2_video.mkv", fps=23.976, audio=false)
#deinterlace
crop( 0, 132, 0, -132)

Lanczos4Resize(1280,544) # Lanczos4 (Sharp)
Undot() # Minimal Noise


Avisynth-Example script for 1680 * x
DirectShowSource("G:\DVDs\Wanted\Versuch 2\1_2_video.mkv", fps=23.976, audio=false)
#deinterlace
crop( 0, 132, 0, -132)

Lanczos4Resize(1680,720) # Lanczos4 (Sharp)
#denoise

Quality: a bit sharper than HD720, maybe colors a bit less saturated, but very hard do see a difference

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