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robinasu
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Best Forum for Bluray Backup Workflows

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Hey all, kinda new to the scene. I have a drive with LibraDrive enabled. I can rip and make MKVs no problem for my Plex server, although I have some 4k disks I want to backup in case they get scratched. Some of the disks use pretty high image quality settings and just the movie is 55GB; with extras right at the 66GB limit.

I've had no problems so far with dual layer disks, except for my Avatar disk which uses some gnarly protection (soo James Cameron). Anyway, I have some 100GB BDXL disks for the big 4k movies and I've read some home players will play a triple layer disk if you only burn two layers. After trying a bunch of permutations and generating a lot of coasters, I'm scratching my head.

I have a Panasonic DP-UB820 player and I love it so far. The manual doesn't say it can read triple layer disks, but some guy on the internet said it does if you only write two layers on a three layer disk. :D Unclear.

I'm looking for a known workflow. I've generated a MKV with only the movie and burned it a couple ways, including with tsMuxerGUI. I also made a raw ISO of the disk and tried to burn that and a bunch of other permutations.

Does anyone know if there is a trick to writing to only the first two layers? Any tsMuxerGUI tricks? I assume the drive would just write the first two layers first but I want to confirm it. Maybe I need to close the disk in a special way? Do I rip an ISO, use a MKV as a source? After a workflow is confirmed, I can get some more confidence than my player just won't do it.
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