eetaylog Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 So im going to buy an internal bluray drive next week so i can rip and watch bluray films on my htpc. Anyone know anything about ripping and converting the discs to .mkv video format? any tips on software etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted August 28, 2009 Share Posted August 28, 2009 doom9.org should be all you need, one way or another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxdie Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 .mkv is just a container (like zip, rar etc). Im not quite sure why the internet rips HD material into mkv files where Avi, or mp4 would be just as apriopiate and already reformat accepted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 .mkv is just a container (like zip, rar etc). Im not quite sure why the internet rips HD material into mkv files where Avi, or mp4 would be just as apriopiate and already reformat accepted The container format MKV is superior to AVI in many ways: * supports H.264/AVC * B-Frame support * supports variable audio bitrate * supports chapters, muxed subtitles, metadata/tags and dvd-like menus The greatest advantage of MKV over AVI is its support of H.264/AVC, which is needed for efficient HD content playback, Xvid/DivX are not suitable!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordie_aaron Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 (edited) http://www.mid.muohio.edu/computer/images/geek2.jpg sidestep a little.... can you get 360s to play these files? Edited August 29, 2009 by geordie_aaron Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeeWee Posted August 29, 2009 Share Posted August 29, 2009 sidestep a little.... can you get 360s to play these files? http://sentry23.googlepages.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eetaylog Posted August 30, 2009 Author Share Posted August 30, 2009 .mkv is just a container (like zip, rar etc). Im not quite sure why the internet rips HD material into mkv files where Avi, or mp4 would be just as apriopiate and already reformat accepted The container format MKV is superior to AVI in many ways: * supports H.264/AVC * B-Frame support * supports variable audio bitrate * supports chapters, muxed subtitles, metadata/tags and dvd-like menus The greatest advantage of MKV over AVI is its support of H.264/AVC, which is needed for efficient HD content playback, Xvid/DivX are not suitable!! yeah, this is the main reason i want to go down the mkv route, its also pretty well supported by the mediacentre front end software that i use. cheers for the pointers, ill give them all a look. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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