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Hi all,

Before I ask my question here, I want to appologize if this has been answered in one of the other Disney related threads. But I really couldn't find any answer to my question yet.

TL:DR: I was wondering if there's a software which could batch-convert all of my Disney-dumps into working single files (I can live with the fact that I would need to get rid of all language-options and stick to one movie-file per language).

I own the complete Disney Classic BluRay Collection. As I want to have those BluRay Discs on my NAS I decided to use MakeMKV+LibreDrive to create copies of those movies. I read that Disney's multi-language approach with BluRays is a bit special but I still don't get how to playback the dumps I have created. While it seems to work for the older classic movies. It doesn't seem to work for newer ones where there is no single big *.m2ts and multiple smaller ones. Instead the movie seems to be split in several bigger files. E.g. Aladdin has one 21GB file and a lot of small ones while Bolt has multiple 4GB files and then several 200MB files.

While I simply don't get why there don't seem to be a software which understands the dumped structure similar to a regular BluRay player I was wondering if there's a software which could batch-convert all of my dumps into working single files (I can live with the fact that I would need to get rid of all language-options and stick to one movie-file per language).

Thanks for any guidance and sorry again if this question has been asked several times before.

Best regards,

quicky

MakeMKV does not have a batching function built into it. There is a command line version of MakeMKV, however, and it can be scripted to automate the ripping process.

Generally speaking, MakeMKV does what it says on the tin; it makes .mkv files. Matroska is a container format that's quite versatile. Typically a .mkv file contains one video track and an arbitrary number of audio & subtitle tracks. The video, audio, and subtitle tracks can be in almost any format. MakeMKV makes 1:1 copies of what's on a disc with the output going into .mkv files, one .mkv per video title. That means, even if a blu-ray movie is composed of several .m2ts files, one .mkv file will be produced and it will be the same quality as what's on the disc. If the movie has a commentary audio track, that can be in the .mkv file as well as the main soundtrack. When you play the .mkv file, you'll be able to select with audio track you want to listen to. If the disc also has 'extras' (trailers, behind-the-scenes stuff, etc) you can make .mkv files for those videos as well. If you feel compelled, you can make .mkv files for the FBI and Interpol warnings as well.

There are lots of playback systems that can play .mkv files, depending of course on the format of the audio or video inside the .mkv file. For example, Plex is a popular way to store movies on you NAS and play them across your local network on your TV, computer, or mobile device. If you want to play them directly on your computer, VLC is a good choice.

Thanks for the reply,

I'm affraid my question was a bit missleading. So let me clarify:

1. I created exact dumps with MakeMKV from my BluRays already
2. Those dumps always include a lot of *.m2ts (not *.mkv) files and there's usually one which is much bigger than all the others. That one is the main movie and I use Plex to playback the movie which works perfectly.
3. With Disney-BluRay-dumps, however there doens't seem to be one big *.m2ts file. Instead there are several (3-4) files (which are usually about 3-5GB). While I can playback all of those files with Plex as well, there's no single "main" movie. Instead the whole movie seems to be split into individual parts. I added a CSV file to this post so you can see the files which are in the directory /BDMV/STREAM/
4. As I like to keep those 1:1 dumps from my BluRays I was wondering if there's any tool who does "understand" Disney's logic and can built working "main"-movies in one file that I can use for Plex instead of my existing MakeMKV dumps.

Sorry if I might be on the wrong track here, but I am currenty a bit lost.

Thanks again

quicky

As I understand it, you've used MakeMKV's backup function to create a decrypted backup of a blu-ray. You could take the additional step of opening that backup in MakeMKV to create a 1:1 copy of the movie in a .mkv file. The typical way to get a single file for a movie is to turn it into a .mkv file. Plex understands .mkv files; that's my preferred container on my Plex server.

It isn't just Disney blu-rays that use more than one .m2ts file for a single movie. The studio Lionsgate is sorta famous for chopping up a movie into a dozen or so .m2ts files and then creating perhaps 100 titles on the disc with only one of them with all the segments in the correct order. Pretty much any movie that has both the theatrical version and a director's cut of a movie on the same disc will use multiple .m2ts files.

If you prefer to keep things as .m2ts files, I think you could use tsMuxer. I don't have a lot of experience with it, but I think you could remux a movie that's in multiple .m2ts files into a single file.

Thank you so much for your reply. I will have a look into tsMuxer and also check the additional options in MakeMKV to generate working *.mkv!

This was very helpful for me!