HD PVR to record Blue ray movies...bad idea

[tvconfuse]

I was thinking about how cool it would be to copy blue ray movies using the HD PVR for backup until i realized that the bitrates for the movies are so much higher than what HD PVR can do. There would be a huge PQ difference.

ex, Hellboy on blue ray is using 26 mbs AVC just for the video, the complete video file size with no audio is 39,451,699,200.

[stanger89]

Yeah, there are much better ways. Why record when you can rip directly.

[dvd_maniac]

Have you tried this yet?
I bet a lot of the bitrate used on Blu-Ray is overkill anyways.
However, I think you would get a better PQ if you just ripped the Blu-Ray to HHD and then used an encoding program to re-encode it using a lower bitrate.

[stanger89]

Though if you wanted to shrink it, the HD PVR would be about 10x faster (literally), and given the quality I've seen from the HD PVR, I bet it would be really close.

[Chriscic]

There's huge diminishing returns on bit-rate. I bet the resulting file would look pretty darn good with only very minimal quality loss.

[jrog]

This was my original intent, what with the various codecs and issues related to all the different Blu-Ray formats and encryption methods, but now I'm using them to capture HD from the Comcast box exclusively. Is there a good way to use a switch and swap between the box and the blu-ray when I want to archive something, or do I really need to dedicate a tuner? Also thinking about doing it to get all my HD-DVD movies off that dead format.

Another advantage of that would be centralized Blu-ray support on my extenders without having to get more than one blu-ray player.

[killervette]

i rip mine. plays fine on the hd100 extender. no quality loss since there is no encoding. i have about 10-12 blurays on the server right now

[tvconfuse]

well the problem is I don't have a blue-ray burner yet as their still too expensive. And the for the blue-ray readers, they are a bit slow, I think they're at 8x so it will still take some time to rip. I want to wait till the readers are at least 12x. And of course the blue ray discs are nearly as expensive as a blue-ray movie.

Besides I had enough in my budget for only one item lol, blue-ray or the HD PVR. Since i had the sony ps3 I choose the HD PVR

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by tvconfuse

well the problem is I don't have a blue-ray burner yet as their still too expensive. And the for the blue-ray readers, they are a bit slow, I think they're at 8x so it will still take some time to rip.

That's like 15 minutes to rip it

I want to wait till the readers are at least 12x.

Why, rather record it at 1x?

And of course the blue ray discs are nearly as expensive as a blue-ray movie.

So? What's that have to do with ripping?

[killervette]

i use the ps3 to rip. saves me from have to get a bluray drive

[SWKerr]

You can trim out the extra languages from a ripped blu-ray m2ts file and get an average size of only about 20-25gb for an average movie. They will play fine over the SageTV client and I have heard they play well on the extender as well. They really don’t take long to rip.

I actually want to save some space in my movie library and also play them on my Xbox360 so I re-encode to them to h.264 with MeGUI. I resize the things to 1280x720 since on my 42-50” sets I can not really tell the difference. I use a bitrate of about 4000, sometimes less since the Xbox360 will not play an Mp4 bigger than 4gb. They always look great and can fit on a DVD. The moves seem to take about 12 hours to compress on dual core AMD X2.

I actually have a problem playing the Mp4 on SageTV but if I just put it in a Mkv container with the same video and sound file it will play fine. (would love for someone to explain this one.)

[tvconfuse]

I would rip it in my ps3 also but my ps3 is only 40 gigs (bday gift) and I not ready to install linux onto the ps3 (or how to for that matter)

Originally Posted by killervette

i use the ps3 to rip. saves me from have to get a bluray drive

[killervette]

mine is a 40gb too. i have considered getting a 120gb to put in it. But i dont have that many demos downloaded and have nothing else on it.