www.makemkv.com

I've got a blurry disc I need to make an image of.
Can I do this with makemkv? I'm on MacOS.

Thanks

You can backup the BR to a BDMV folder structure. Then make an .iso from that with standard utilities.

On Linux I use mkisofs; I'm not sure about Mac.

It looks like it is a two step process.

https://richardlewis.org/blog/2020/8/4/ ... file-macos

dcoke22 wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 20, 2022 4:51 pm

It looks like it is a two step process.

https://richardlewis.org/blog/2020/8/4/ ... file-macos

Thanks, but will it also work for Blu ray?
The article
Refers to cdrom/dvd

wmcclain wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 20, 2022 1:24 pm

You can backup the BR to a BDMV folder structure. Then make an .iso from that with standard utilities.

On Linux I use mkisofs; I'm not sure about Mac.

Thanks, how do I make a BDMV folder structure with mkmkv? It always makes flv files.

This particular Blu ray disc has copy protection

MakeMKV has both "full backup" and "convert to MKV" functions.

To use full backup and get the BDMV folders, DO NOT click on the big disk image after inserting. Click on the little folder icon in the toolbar.

wmcclain wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 20, 2022 7:41 pm

MakeMKV has both "full backup" and "convert to MKV" functions.

To use full backup and get the BDMV folders, DO NOT click on the big disk image after inserting. Click on the little folder icon in the toolbar.

Thanks, I’ve only used the mkv feature since I’m ripping for Plex

My usual workflow is to make a decrypted full backup of a disc and then make .mkv files from the backup. It makes it easy to get the movie and any extras on the disc, all at the speed of one's storage, not the speed of the optical drive.

dcoke22 wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 20, 2022 8:11 pm

My usual workflow is to make a decrypted full backup of a disc and then make .mkv files from the backup. It makes it easy to get the movie and any extras on the disc, all at the speed of one's storage, not the speed of the optical drive.

Good idea. Mine has been making ISOs an putting them on my NAS, then make the MKVs from the NAS. I’ve been ripping/MKVing to a USB SDD a to avoid using up the life of the SSD in my Macmini. But the network times to copy the files was a pain. Now I rip to iso then MKV directly to the network

Perhaps consider skipping the .iso step. Do everything local and push the results to the network at the end. Make a decrypted backup, make your .mkv files, put the results on your NAS. You probably don't need to keep your decrypted backup folder if you're keeping your 'raw' rips. If you're making the rips and transcoding them into a smaller file, then you might want to consider keeping either the decrypted backup folder or the raw rips. Whatever you're transcoding into today probably won't be the format of choice in the future.

I've used an earlier version of an external SanDisk Extreme portable SSD (https://www.westerndigital.com/products ... 1-500G-G25) as a local scratch drive.

I've also shoved a M.2 SSD into an Envoy Express (https://eshop.macsales.com/item/OWC/TB3ENVXP00/) to use as a local scratch drive.

At the moment I'm using a OWC Express 4M2 (https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/express-4m2) in a RAID 4 configuration as a local scratch drive. It is fast, gives me enough space for messing about and insulates me from a single SSD failure, like the one I had earlier this week in fact.