So I want to start ripping my blu-ray collection and I was wondering what you guys use? I'm hearing good things about Slysofts Any DVD HD but that is like $90!!! I'm looking for more along the line of free. You can get free DVD decrypting software so why not Blu-ray?

 

p.s. NO I don't want the digital copies that come on a blu-ray, I DO want the huge h.264 file on there though

 

AnyDVD HD here. It just works.

Once it's on the HDD, Ripbot 264.

 

DVD Fab

http://www.dvdfab.com/download.htm

 

I'm another anydvd user, though once in a while I will have to wait a month or two before it can decrypt the latest blu-ray movie.

 

I want a program that decrypts Blu-ray discs so I can convert the movie to something I can store on my PC and view without needing the disc.

 

I'm interested in this as well. Bow that I've invested in 2 wd tvs I'd like to play my blu rays on either of them. I guess I'll have to invest in a blu Ray drive for my computer. How long does it normally take to rip a movie?

 

Well blu-rays can hold up to 50gb on one disc! But they're around 15-25gb in size usually. Does your wd TV have gigabit or 802.11n on it? you'll probably need it if you want to stream a video file that was originally on a blu-ray disc.

Currently I use handbrake to convert my dvds that are originally in mpeg-2 format to a smaller h.264 file but with blu-ray I wouldn't want to compress it, I'd just leave it as the original huge h.264 file, hence why I got a 1TB drive for Christmas. Also you can't use FAT32 since FAT32 doesn't support files larger than 4GB.

 

It's on a wired connection, not sure if the wdtv is gigabit, but I'd assume so since it's designed for this, however I don't think my router is.

 

From their "free stuff" page: http://www.dvdfab.com/free.htm

Did I miss something?

 

Aww sweet I didn't see that! Thanks a lot!

Downloading...

First up Planet Earth...

 

You might want to take a look at WinX Blu-ray Decrypter too. And it's free right now until 1/10/10.

http://www.winxdvd.com/giveaway/

 

It caps you to a 3.5 GB copy. Boooooooooooooo.

 

The DVD Fab HD only saves the blu-ray as an .iso. I was hoping it would just extract the video file and at worst I'd have to rename the file. I'll try extracting the video file from the iso using handbrake.

 

Man, ISO rocks. Daemon Tools, mount is and it's like the disk is in the drive!

 

yeah but not for streaming to a ps3

 

I don't think the ps3 will handle your .h264 file anyhow.

 

I don't know about streaming, but I can guarantee you it will play it. H.264 (aka MPEG-4 AVC) is what Blu-Ray video is encoded as.

 

I'll try it later likely tomorrow, but I don't think it will play the file.

 

If it doesn't play the file, it's probably not the video format that's the issue. You may have to create a bogus Blu-Ray file structure around the actual video file. The same thing holds true for camcorders that use the AVCHD format. The actual video file output by the camcorder is the same as B-R. Burn just the video file to a DVD-ROM and throw it in a Blu-Ray player and it many will not play it. Drop that same video file in the file structure of a B-R disc and presto! Plays like a champ.

 

hahaa my PC won't even play a full 1080p video file, it can only render 1 frame at a time, then jumps like 10 frames ahead lol.

 

If you have Windows 7 it supports DLNA like the PS3 and it figures out what formats the PS3 can handle and transcodes the file into some thing the PS3 can support. So with Windows 7 you can play videos in formats that the PS3 doesn't support cause it will transcode it on the fly for you. Pretty Suite!

Oh wait, you have a mac. You can't do that....well I think PS3 media server might do it but that only works with the PS3 and not other DLNA devices like Windows 7 does.

http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/

But the PS3 does support h.264 but like other devices it can be picky about the techinical details like whether it's main profile, baseline profile, etc but Windows 7 handles all that for you on the fly.