Bluray Converter
Helen Francke
MakeMKV is your one-click solution to convert video that you own into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere. MakeMKV is a format converter, otherwise called "transcoder". It converts the video clips from proprietary (and usually encrypted) disc into a set of MKV files, preserving most information but not changing it in any way. The MKV format can store multiple video/audio tracks with all meta-information and preserve chapters. There are many players that can play MKV files nearly on all platforms, and there are tools to convert MKV files to many formats, including DVD and Blu-ray discs.Additionally MakeMKV can instantly stream decrypted video without intermediate conversion to wide range of players, so you may watch Blu-ray and DVD discs with your favorite player on your favorite OS or on your favorite device.
Tipard Blu-ray Converter can rip movies from Blu-ray discs/folders and convert them into digital formats. It supports converting Blu-ray to MKV, MP4, WMV, MOV, AVI, FLV, TS, M4V, MP3, WMA, AAC, M4A, FLAC, OGG and 500+ video/audio formats, including 8K/5K/4K/HD formats.
This software allows you to convert complete Blu-ray disc/Blu-ray folder to MKV lossless. This MKV file will retain all original contents including audio tracks and subtitles of the Blu-ray movie. The video quality of the output is equal to the original Blu-ray film.
Besides, it is capable of ripping audio files from the Blu-ray movies and save them into desired audio formats, like FLAC, WAV, WMA, MP3, AMR, AIFF, OGG and more for your any player. (Please DO NOT employ this product to rip non-homemade DVDs or back up DVD for commercial use.)
Tipard Blu-ray Converter is also the powerful video conversion software for almost digital formats. Supporting a wide range of video and audio formats, it can handle MP4, AVI, MOV, MKV, MPG, 3GP, WebM, FLV, SWF, WMV, MP3, FLAC, WMA, AAC, and so on. It can even create GIFs from videos and edit ID3 tag for your music to personalize your files. Highly compatible with the popular encodes like H.265/HEVC, H.264, Xvid, VP8, VP9, etc., it lets you open any video files on iPhone, iPad, HTC, Kindle Fire HD, Sony Vegas, Avid Media Composer, After Effect, Windows Movie Maker, and more without hassle.
Tipard Blu-ray Converter is one specially designed program around the concept of being easy-to-use and user-friendly. It adopts the top-level accelerating technology, Blu-Hyper technology, which includes Graphics card image processing, and video decoding/encoding technology based on CPU level, so that it creates a 30 faster ripping and converting speed than before. Ripping Blu-ray/DVD and converting video/audio skyrockets.
Tipard Blu-ray Converter lets you adjust the subtitle and audio tracks for the Blu-ray, DVD and video files. You can keep all or choose specific subtitles and audio tracks while converting Blu-ray and DVD. While converting the digital video formats, you can replace the original tracks and subtitles with downloaded ones to synchronize the movie.
To create a different style movie, you can try filters. Whirpool, Hong Kong movie, orange dots, purple, plain, coordinates, warm, Stars, modern, gray, pixelate and Sketch filters are available for you to render the movies. Moreover, you can adjust the Blu-ray/DVD/video contrast, hue, saturation and brightness manually to personalize the filter effects.
While making the video for sharing online, you can add your own image or text watermark to the video. Whether you choose the text watermark or the image logo, this software offers the feasible options to adjust the font size, style, color, image position, transparency, size, etc. You can make the watermark as amazing as you can imagine easily.
To emphasize the scene of a movie, you will need the zoom-in feature. The Crop feature padded with aspect ratio mainly suits for users whose source videos have different aspect ratios with devices. For your sideways video, it lets you rotate in 90 counterclockwise or clockwise and mirror video by flipping vertically and horizontally.
If you need to merge several Blu-ray/DVD chapters or titles into one, this software will make it easy with the "Merge into one" function. If you want to watch the long movie in short chapters, the Cut function can do that exactly. It can cut down a title into small segments or split the video segments to make the short video clips magically.
Whether you want to send the video via Email or upload it on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc., the large size will limit your sharing. Tipard Blu-ray Converter can easily compress the video file into a smaller size keeping the original quality by adjusting the compression rate, resolution, format, etc., so that you can use it anywhere.
There is no doubt that 3D movies can bring us better visuals and higher quality, compared with normal 2D videos. With the built-in 3D maker tool of this converter, you can add 3D effects to your video without any hassle. After converting, you can enjoy watching all of your Blu-ray movies with exciting visual verisimilitude.
Besides converting videos, Tipard Blu-ray Converter is a powerful tool that enhances your video quality. It is capable of upscaling the resolution of the video to a higher level so that you can easily convert SD to HD or convert 1080p to 4K. You can also remove the annoying video noise and optimize the video effect, like brightness and contrast effortlessly.
This is the rocket Blu-ray converter. Its ripping speed is satisfying. I ripped a Blu-ray movie in 90 minutes, and converted into MKV. The whole process takes me 15 minutes. It helps save my time greatly.
Maybe I should call it the multi-function converter. It supports DVD, Bu-ray and other video and audio formats. The converting quality is excellent. What is most importantly, it is one tool with so powerful functions.
DeoVR is actually an awesome video player. It's too bad that last year DeoVR decided to abandon the support of Half SBS 3D videos. However, since HSBS videos are only half the resolution of regular 1080p 3D videos, if you have the full 3D bluray ISO, you can actually convert it to a Full Top&Bottom MKV video, then play it in DeoVR.
The benefit is that: now you will see the full resolution of the 3D movie, and DeoVR will handle it quite nicely. I set the Zoom to 1.5x and the effect is amazing.
Of course you can play the HSBS videos in other VR players, but in this topic I want to share how I do it with DeoVR.
Be aware: Most original Bluray's content is encrypted. You need to find a way to decrypt the disc into an ISO before you can continue. I cannot tell you how to decrypt it, or how to obtain decrypted bluray ISOs.
Once the disc is mounted, click on "Open Blu-ray 3D" and browse to "F:\BDMV" folder. You will see that the disc content is read. Time to set the tabs.
Tab 1: Open Blu-ray 3D.
Here you just choose the video you want to extract. Usually the long one with more chapters wins.
Tab 2: Select streams.
Here you choose which stream to include in the rendered MKV, but I usually just choose the main audio stream, nothing else.
Tab 3: Title & tags
Here you must type something in the title.
Tab 4: Cover art
You can basically ignore this tab.
Tab 5: Options and Go!
This tab is most important. First you need to uncheck the "Stereoscopy: Half". Then set the next one to "Top & Button"
The "Hardcode subtitle stream on video" is necessary if the movie has some foreign or alien languages. I suggest you choosing the one with "extract forced captions only".
Now you are ready to go. However, it still has 2 problems. 1. The picture quality of x264 is not great. 2. It takes way too much time to encode a movie.
I have a Nvidia GTX 1080, so it has accelerated HEVC encoder. I also downloaded the awesome ffmpeg which supports hardware accelerated encoding. So I prefer to use it instead of the built-in x264 encoder. No problem. This program allows me to do so.
So I click on "Settings -> AVC / HEVC encoder " and choose "Use your own custom command for encoding".
In the Custom Command: I pasted in:
"C:\\ffmpeg\\bin\\ffmpeg.exe" -hwaccel cuda -i "__ENCODE_3D_MOVIE.mkv" -c:v hevc_nvenc -preset slow -f matroska -b:v 12M -maxrate: 20M -c:a copy "video.mkv"
Note: you have to use double backslash for path to point to the ffmpeg.exe location.
And in the "Filename of the video stream", I typed in "video.mkv" . This is the rendered video which is a temporary file.
After all that, I set the Project (temp) folder to somewhere in a big drive, and "Output (MKV) folder" to where I want the final video be. Keep the "mux to MKV file" checked.
All set. Now I just click on "Do It!" and it will start extracting the needed files from the ISO to the temp folder. After that, it will show me the temp folder.
Because I use my own encode command, in the temp folder, I double-click on "_CUSTOM_ENCODE_3D_LAUNCHER.cmd" to start the encoding. The process will generate a temporary "video.mkv" in the temp folder.
If you use the built-in x264 encoder, it will take more than a day, but with hardware accelerating, it will take 1 to 2 hours.
philpw99 Hi, I apologize for jumping in. I saw that you are very active on the forum, and I love that you are so passionate! I just wanted to inform you that if you are interested in getting to know the company behind DeoVR, contact me at tj...@deovr.com, and we can have a chat ?
Have a nice day!
The custom command had to be modified by changing "ENCODE_3D_MOVIE.mkv" to "ENCODE_3D_MOVIE.avs".
Thanks, using GPU over CPU, reduced my render time by half.
Edit: Comparing the output is night and day. x264 has double the file size and render time but has double the quality.
Edit 2: If full resolution looks flat then your aspect ratio is wrong. I compared both half and full resolution and was shocked at the difference. I wasted 4 hrs watching 2 "3d moves" with streched aspected ratios before realizing. It's a good thing you can't change aspect ratio in deo ?.