ripping to movie only

[sleonard]

For a long time I have been ripping whole discs for DVD and BD. My thought was that if I ever changed my mind I could easily strip the menus and extras later on.

Well, I have changed my mind and from now on will rip movie only on DVD with DVD Decyptor but AnyDVDHD does not do movie only.

I have my existing collection in folder structures and can't figure out how to pull out just the movie now. I could go back and re-rip all of my DVD's but I've lost or scratched a few and that doesn't help me with the Blu-rays. If the DVD's were ISO's I could mount them and re-rip but there is no way to mount folder structures.

So, how do you re-rip folder structure DVD's and BD's to movie only and how do you rip BD to movie only going forward?

S

[wrems]

DVDShrink and MakeMKV both can import the folder structure of DVD's. Then you can output just the main movie. I'm sure there are others but these are the ones that I would use and they're free.

[RocKKer]

For BRD - I use BD-Rebuilder, point it to your BRD files on local disk and set it to "Movie-Only Backup".

DVDFab (free version) will do movie only, just point the source to the DVD files on local disk.

I think (been awhile since I used it) DVD Decrypter will do movie only, if so, your DVD files are un-encrypted already so it shouldn't have any issues reading the already ripped files.

[reggie14]

If you're just ripping the movie, I see little reason not to just use MakeMKV.

[sleonard]

DVD Decryptor will not open files or folders. I couldn't find a free version of DVD Fab but I downloaded the 30 day trial. I can redo my existing DVD collection in that amount of time.

I do want to keep everything in DVD/BD folder structures, just want to get rid of menus, alternate audio tracks, and extras.

Still need a solution for BD. Will MakeMKV strip the unnecessaries and leave a BD folder?

S

[reggie14]

Originally Posted by sleonard

Still need a solution for BD. Will MakeMKV strip the unnecessaries and leave a BD folder?

Nope, it will give you an MKV file.

Out of curiosity, why do you want it left as a DVD/BD folder structure?

[JetreL]

I use DVDFab for everything and it works great. I'll do just about anything I have needed it for. I went through a few months ago and did the exact same thing you are talking about. DVDFab made it pretty painless to rip out the main movie while keeping DVD/BD formatting and saved a ton of space on my server.

It really streamlined the kids movies to make it select and play.

[sleonard]

Originally Posted by reggie14

Nope, it will give you an MKV file.

Out of curiosity, why do you want it left as a DVD/BD folder structure?

Personally, I don't care but the family is used to them showing up in Sage under the DVD/BD menu and I'm not sure how MyMovies handles MKV.

S

[wrems]

DVDShrink will keep your folder structure. Just remember to turn off the compression to keep a 100% copy of the original. It won't do BD's but it's a great program fro DVD's.

I do agree with Reggie, that the MKV container is very nice to deal with. Either way is still fine.

[RocKKer]

I know you said the 30 day trial of DVDFab will do, but here is a link to the free version.

http://www.dvdfab.com/hd-decrypter.htm

They usually bury the free versions, you can find it on the their home page under "Free Stuff". IIRC the only difference is it lags behind the paid version, but that only means it may not decrypt the latest movies.

MKV is fine unless you need subtitles (which are mandatory in my house).

[sleonard]

Thanks, two question on the free version.

It only lists disc under input. Will I open and re-rip a folder structure?

What do they mean when they say it only "removes part of AACS, BD+, RC, UOPS and BD-Live Blu-ray protections"?

S

[reggie14]

Originally Posted by RocKKer

MKV is fine unless you need subtitles (which are mandatory in my house).

For me, Sage handles subtitles in MKV files just fine. That's somewhat of a new feature though (particularly for PGS subtitles found in blu-ray rips, which was added less than a year ago), but they haven't give me a problem for quite a while (PGS subtitles were a little buggy at first).

[Rob]

If you want to keep the BR stucture, but just keep the main title, you can:

Rip with anydvd to a local drive.

Open the rip with BDInfo and identify the playlist that is the correct time length. The playlist will show the m2ts files involved.

Delete all the playlists and m2ts files that are not part of the main movie.

The result is BR structure, with only the main title that works perfectly with sage.

[panteragstk]

Tsmuxer will let you keep the main movie and take out what you don't want. You can then store as a bdmv folder structure or an .m2ts file. Works perfectly.

[RocKKer]

Originally Posted by sleonard

Thanks, two question on the free version.

It only lists disc under input. Will I open and re-rip a folder structure?

What do they mean when they say it only "removes part of AACS, BD+, RC, UOPS and BD-Live Blu-ray protections"?

S

Yes, click on the folder looking button close to source and point where the DVD/BRD is ripped.

Not sure what those terms mean, however Sage (and my re-encoder) don't seem to mind.

reggie14, my tests were a year or more back, that may be why I "know" it doesn't work!