I have watched this several times while trying to set things up for the new Zappiti I will be buying. Wish I would have paid closer attention as I purchased the whole DVDFab instead of just the two programs that I needed.
I fully recommend going with Alex, very fast, friendly and knowledgeable. He handles the warranty as well. I got my drive a few weeks ago and running strong.
Is the drive I'd have to get internal only, or external only, or is it either/or? Also for the sake of asking, what OSs are supported? Just Mac and Windows, or if I picked up Linux would it work there too?
me too, 1200 blu-rays, 110 4k and 100 HD DVD (I know haha). That's a LOT of hard drive space, and what about backing all that up? Don't want to have to rip everything again. I do have all my titles ripped, but transcoded to mp4 to save space. I use them on tablets and flash drives when traveling. I do have everything backed up to 2nd drive. If I kept every thing 1:1 rip i would need dozens of TBs of space. When I want the best experience in my theater I simply use the original disc.
Great thorough tutorial Channa! If I decide to do some ripping, I will follow this closely. We have 400+ 4K discs alone. About 600 hours I’d ripping just for our 4K! Have an awesome day man!
I recently received mu UHD drive from Alex (Jan 2023 - Delivered to Montreal). Alex is very reliable. My ASUS drive works amazing. Thanks to you TD and of course Alex!
Fantastic video! I learnt some of these lessons the hard way when ripping my DVDs and Blu rays about 600 of them two or three years ago. I stopped at 4k UHD because I only had one disc, Dunkirk, and at the time you had to have the right UHD drive plus know a guy that could give you a code for each particular movie and I wasn't prepared to deal with that nonsense. Now I've got about 25 UHD's I might get back into it. Plus I'm jealous of that 3D Oled TV, absolutely love the 3D format. With 3d rips for Plex it does work however it's more hassle than its worth with the menus being all screwed up and the tv not auto recognising 3d content from Plex, so I just avoid guess that's another plus point to the premium Zappitti player.
Awesome walk through. Never heard of Zappiti. Nice hardware. Alex Coluzzi was top notch and very honest. Great drive and saved me a lot of work. Highly recommended.
@@TechnoDad I love it when you do tech vids, you're very good at simplifing things down - I wish you would do more its very appreciated much respect T.D. :)
Just a quick question : Why do you "prefer" M2TS pass through using DVDFAB vs Make MKV (movie only) option ?? I'm only asking as I'm fairly new to blu-ray movie to file ripping, i just purchased a Zappiti ONE 4K Media Player, so im currently ripping blu-ray "main movie only" to MKV files, ready for the Zappiti when it arrives. 😊👌👍
@@Lonewolf-ei5yv It brought back memories of waiting for that £300 Sony IDE Rewritable drive to back up DVDs in the early 2000s. Dem were the days... ;-)
I'm going to buy a Zappiti and I've search for a video like this without any good results. Will definitely save/bookmark this video to use later when I've bought the Zappiti. BIG thanks for this video VERY useful and informative. Really great!
Thanks for this! I'm only now learning more about Dolby Vision. Would be very interested to know where you heard about the next generation of Zappiti players and what they will and won't support. I just have a 4k HDR mini and love it to bits! Very interested to know more about these next gen models.
Very well done TD. I’m going to have to watch that a few times. This was very helpful as I realized a few things I have been doing wrong. Any thoughts if DV support will be a firmware update or is that a hardware update? It’s crazy how the oppo was so far ahead of its time & yet, is the best player out there.
@@TechnoDad can you do a video on how to remux a 4k dolby atmos or DTS-X onto a ripped 3d or Blu-ray of the same movie that is only in 5.1. Please help? Love your channel and this video was excellent.
Hi Techno Dad, I’ve watched your 4K “NAS” videos, including this one, many times over to ensure that I’m following your instructions to the letter and have had MAGNIFICENT success. I found Billy (great guy) and was able to have my ASUS drive’s firmware flashed remotely. I was able to use MakeMV to rip my purchased UHD disc to my personal hard drive flawlessly. The question I have is related to ripping the disc as a BDMV as you did in this video. I only see the option for outputting the file a .mkv. How do I rip as .iso or BDMV using only MakeMKV? Thanks so much for your content, you are THE MAN!
Thx for this! I haven’t ripped in about 10 years. I’m assuming rip lock is still a problem? Are there any optical drives that don’t need to be flashed? I used to use imgburn(Mac) and anydvd(win) and it seemed to work well. Do you still have to hunt through fake playlists w/4k? Would like to just go iso/1:1 and stream my files w/DV & atmos support.
When this generation of drives we're using was first released all 2016 and 2017 models were shipped with firmware that exposed the "backdoor" that is used to bypass copy protection and thus did not have to be "flashed". Sometime in 2018 they released firmware that closed this loophole and thus the flashing did begin. Being somewhat of a purist myself back then I made it mission to track down as many "factory original" (drives with the "backdoor" firmware installed) drives still in existence and for sale. Thanks to stores like Fry's Electronics who pride themselves on stocking last year's and the year's before builds of components I cleaned up lol. I was able to find and liberate around 850 factory original drives but eventually I too had to start flashing drives. It was cool while it lasted. A total nerd scavenger hunt as I either visited or called every fry's location in the country and had them scour their stores looking for the magical date codes on every single ASUS and LG blu ray drive they had in stock. They were always more than happy to send as many as I wanted from all across the country, store to store inventory transfer in one of their fleet of Fry's trucks. Destination Palo Alto store 3. R.I.P. Fry's Electronics!
I used to use M2TS passthrough all the time since it is the native format on Blu-Ray discs and more players could play M2TS than MKV. I have recently switched to MKV passthrough though, so that I get chapter marks, and the files are slightly smaller, and most players have been updated over the years to support MKV.
Hi Channa! Fantastic tutorial as always, it helped a lot! I am having trouble with the subtitle ripping. If I choose for example in Stargate Atlantis and Grimm to rip also the forced subtitles, then at playback it doesn't show any subtitles regardless that in the list I could choose even 2 english subtitle track. I suppose this is because it probably doesn't have any forced subtitle at all on the original disc? Which means I have to know if the movie/series has forced subtitle at all and choose accordingly before ripping? How can I find this out? Thanks, Gabor
@@carminedepaola8018 Tough to say... OLED inherently degrades over time and is ever as bright as the first day it was bought and used. Despite that, and the lack of Dolby Vision support at frame rates above 30 fps, you have a great integrated sound bar and 3D support along with OLED just being a great viewing experience in general. Not sure if LG's White Glove will still be available for a display that is 4 / 5 years old now but that was something I always brought up to folks looking at the G6 over the E6, C6, & B6 models at that time. If you found the right buyer you could probably still make anywhere from $1,000 to $3,000 or so on the lower end. I certainly doubt you'd be able to get back up to original retail value sadly though.
@@farouttech4275 No, not at all. LG's older OLED models all used the same organic display layer. They would all inherently degrade the same over time. However, the larger the display, the quicker you'd begin to notice that change, slow as that change might be over time and use. Now that LG's 2021 OLEDs are splitting their models between a base organic display layer and an organic EVO Display layer on the higher models it will be interesting to watch if there is a difference in the levels of fading degradation between the models. Though there are now rumors circulating that all of the LG's 2021 models have the same EVO panel but that the system on a chip that runs each model level of LG's 2021 OLEDs has different instructions on how to use the new panel or even just treat it as a normal panel.
You mean on PC? better to get and use a UHD Bluray player that supports Bluray 3D and is Universal plays all region you can play normal Blurays and UHD Blurays if you rip them or use Cyberlink PowerDVD software, technically it should support Bluray 3D as well but whether it can actually play 3D is down to your graphics card, video interface you're using and drivers. In most cases you can't play on pc these days unless you rip to mkv and play using something like Virtual Desktop and a compatible SteamVR/PCVR Headset. So no sharing with others. I mean if you're using SBS for example you may be able to select 3D on the remote or menu for your intended 3D display and that way you can use 3D but .srt subtitle files will probably be messed up and you'll probably have to burn in eg. Foreign language subtitles manually or when you rip, multiplex or Hanbreak (Transcode) but the positioning (and maybe timing) of them could still be an issue if you don't know what you're doing or just having trouble.
Do we need a program like Zappiti to play the files or is it just a physical machine to play them? Wondering because I'm trying to figure out how I would go about playing the files on my TV, Computer and phone. New to all this... My goal is to rip the files to an external drive and plug that drive into my devices and be able to play the movie file right off the external drive.
Just a heads up - MKV has supported Dolby Vision for awhile now, and Plex supports that format as well now - your info is slightly out of date. That's a 1:1 rip, including Atmos if it's there.
That just happened in mid October is what I’m finding out. Too bad there’s transcoding involved in Plex as that inherently degrades the quality. I will check which way it sends Dolby Atmos, because I do have a hunch, and if I’m right, then You’re better off buying from Vudu and using the app instead of spending all the time to rip movies at 1:1 and then compress it to be sent to your TV.
@@TechnoDad There’s no transcoding and up until a week ago they highly encouraged you to disable any transcoding due to horrendous HDR tone mapping when doing so (the latest version fixes this). The MKV specs pulled in Dolby Vision profile 7 / dual layer back at the beginning of the year. MakeMKV supported ripping into that format a few months ago. Plex has supported dual layer (the proper way to do DV on a rip) since a roughly a month ago. Any device that Plex runs on that supports profile 7 runs without transcoding (the Shield for example).
Hi! Space is the reason. If I rip to BDMV all the time, I'll be using up more space. M2TS and MKV will be just the movie file and less space taken up on your HDD.
Great video again TD really enjoy your tips and help. I have close to 10,000 DVD/Blu-Ray's & 300 4K discs what do you recommend? I want to be able to burn them all to watch without grabbing the physical discs how big of a storage and player do you recommend please help and recommend something that is not in the thousands of $$$. Thanks.
Question… is it possible to take build/create one movie out of 2 different DVD’s ? I have the Movie “Gravity” in Blu-Ray 3D and in the Blu-Ray Diamond Luxe Edition. Is it possible to take the “Audio” from Diamond Luxe Edition and merge it with the “3D Video” file and make it into one viewable movie ? Would be the best of both worlds.
Very good information. When ripping 4k discs, do you find that the drive must be plugged into a USB 3 port or the rip will eventually fail? Also, I have to clean the discs very thoroughly with alcohol to get them to rip and then they will sometimes fail and have to be reclined and ripped again. I am using the LG drive Alex sells but it still can be an arduous task sometimes to get a 4k ripped. Any ideas? Thanks Benny
@@satpak9383 It's not a warranty issue it's one of the details to be aware of. 4K discs should be cleaned before you attempt to back them up and even then it's not guaranteed that every single one can be back up. Visit the makemkv message boaard to go over best practices when using these drives.
A quick tip I found that you didn't mention, When ripping a blu-ray "movie only" (Make MKV) I tick all english Subtitles however I deselect any "forced subtitles" this way I still have the choice of turning "on or off" subtitles, when needed during the movie. 🎬
Thanks for the video. Is the Zappiti going to be a Firmware update for Dolby Vision, or you have to get the new one? Been thinking about getting the Zappiti, but wanted the Dolby Vision built in.
Quick question. Once you have the 3d movie on your computer, can you play it in left to right display? Another words two images. This way a person can play the movie with a VR headset. Thanks.
Hey Techno Dad! I'm not sure I understand correctly. If I rip my Blu-rays and 4K Blu-ray to an M2TS Passthrough file, it doesn't keep the Dolby Vision AND/OR HDR10+ layers in it (because some 4k Blu-ray comes with both formats i.e: Hobbs & Shaw)? Does it keep the chapters too so I can skip through the movie or is that only available with a BDMV folder? Thank you for your informations!
Very intresting video... I am curious if you do not compress your media with handbreak or another program. How big is your server?? it must be 100TB or more!
@@TechnoDad oh lol I am using a 10tb Ironwolf pro but I have an actual server coming with 6 4tb ironwolf pros. I do compress some files such as older shows that are black and white because they already are poor quality video so it doesn't hurt them lol that is interesting tho what are you going to do when you run out of space just buy another drive lol
question, if I rip 4k UHD movies to a NAS pc with MKV- the pc nas will not perform any transcoding, simply hold the movie files - can I watch them without losing bitrate or UHD sound quality from a Nvidia Sheild Pro with PLEX on the Nvidia Shield PRO. ? Also does the NAS host pc have to have a good CPU and RAM to stream more than one 4k UHD movie at at time ?
Hi, thanks for your explanation, very informative, is it possible to edit/cut the ripped file? I want to make a shorter version of the movie, thanks again for your time 😊
@@TechnoDad ok I’ve just been researching if I should be condensing the file sizes but everything is telling me not to do that because it looses quality
I just caught your video (and emailed Alex who has already responded) but in doing some research online I'm seeing quite a few articles stating that unless your PC has an Intel 10th gen or earlier cpu (and AMD doesn't support it at all) you can't read UHD 4K discs. I was going to take the plunge and order the drive from Alex and purchase dvdfab but my two desktop PCs are both AMD. My laptop is a 9th gen Intel that has SGX but I don't want to use my laptop for this lengthy process. Any truth to these statements?
Thanks for the awesome video! I have various blu-rays and UHDs from all over the world - different zones / regions. Can you recommend a USB player to rip any region blu-ray?
Hello, can you make another video and explain how to add missing subs in bluray disc ? Thank you. Rip the disc, add missing subs and burn the movie to another disk.
Hello Vincent, I am using Seagate Ironwolf drives. They are the designated NAS drives they make and are 7200 RPM. You can pretty much get any size but I have two 16TB drives to keep me busy ripping, LOL! Here's a link to drives - technodad.biz/Drives
Sorry new to this. So DVD Fab and MKV are 2 different programs that do the same/similar things, in this case ripping? So I don’t need both just one of them? I am about to buy a 2T Samsung 980 pro and a housing for storage. Will this work?
Hi! You are correct. They both rip, but they rip different output file types. I just updated this video with a bit ore information about this - ruclips.net/video/UsITiDzxcPY/видео.html - about 40 seconds in
Channa D. , Michael from Patreon recommended you. Loved you video, very informative. You made this 12/20, do you have any updates to this since it is now 7/22? I would also like to know how many GB does each disc take up when ripping, I noticed when you did the Saving Private Ryan I saw 90.68 GB listed, can I expect to used roughly this much GB on each rip? If so I would definitely need a few TB drives for my full library. You also mentioned contacting Alex for a drive, what type of drive is it? Thanks for the info keep up the good work.
Hi James! Yes, some discs can get up to 90GB, but that's the entire disc or "disc image." When you rip the movie itself, it could be anywhere from 20 GB - 70 GB. So it all depends. Yes, that's a lot of space. I have 32TB of space for my Zappiti and the 4K friendly drive is something you'll have to order from Alex - alexcoluzzi32@gmail
I have Blu Ray 3d of RIPD 2 disc set the second disc say's Universe it works that way you can watch very well the first disc not so well same happen to Titanic Blu Ray 3d is 4 disc combo pack what do you do with combo packs
Hey guys! Can you help me with a recommendation for a 4k streaming/decoding NAS and some general phone/computer back up please? I just bought the DS224+, which I will returning now. Had my sights set on the DS923+, then debated with DS1522+, DS423, and now I’m looking at the QNAP TS-453E-8G-US. Any suggestions.
Great information, but I do have a question. Have you run into issues with Sight Impaired sound overlay? It rips with movie and plays on all PC players. Does fine on Plex. Any suggestions?
Do the bd rip programs do DVDs too or would I have to get the dvd programs too? What about downscaling (4k down to say 1080p, for file size friendliness). At the moment I'm not concerned with 4k and IMAX and Dolby and such, just looking for the movie with audio. Would makeMKV be better for me or should I look up the other program. I'd still have to get a good ripping drive either way I'm sure.
I use MakeMKV to rip my blu rays, but I have them as MKV files. I have always thought they were as good of quality as the disc itself, am I wrong? Should I be ripping them as M2TS files for better quality? If so, how much quality loss am I getting with MKV? Please let me know.
Hi James! MKV are fine. My Oppo just doesn't play the Atmos tracks in MKVs which is a bug with the Oppo. It will play Atmos with M2TS files so that's why I rip to that file format.
hi. im hoping your method will work because every other method ive tried has given me a 2d movie rather than 3d. so im going to try your method but i have one question. where is the custom button on dvdfab12? i need to enable 3d mkv.mvc.
Actually makemkv does support Dolby Vision. You can rip any 4k UHD disc to a 1-1 mkv file with all the audio with subtitles with Dolby Vision and plex does support it.
That’s what I’ve been hearing and I just tried it with everything else. Looks like that only works on PLEX, MKV files with DV. Not sure why it’s not working anywhere else?
@@TechnoDad I can also confirm the makemkv method with DV does work with PLEX, tested with a MKV and Shield (2019) and DV was enabled on my display. ....waiting on the other Media Server options to catch up!
Hi Techno Dad, congrats for your channel !!!!! I'm just a little confused when use DVDFab and or MakeMKV (bought the DVDFab by your link and I'm thinking to order the MakeMKV). Another doubt is when use ISO, m2ts, mkv or BDMV formats. My acomplishment is get out the best result (Audio and Video) to create my DVDs and BDs ripped to transfer my physical collection to media. Also, how I have a big Hi-End AV 4K System here, I want have the same result when I use my Oppo player to run these discs. Another information to you know, basically 75% of my collection is about music videos and music shows in DVD and Blu Ray. And now a days I my players are last one NVidia Shield, AppleTV 4k (Infuse) and I ordered a new Dune Ultra Vision 4k, also I am analysing to get a second player like a Zappiti Reference or Zidoo UHD3000 (what do you think about them? which one recommend me?) Sorry for long history here, but your experience will help me to get a better solution, why I have many doubts... And last one, I saw the Zappiti NAS video and I am analysing it also ordering one, but my first question here come to find the solution because today I have a Synology NAS and how I will change ti to a new big one, maybe could be a good choice to get a Zappitti NAS (or not by the price !!!!), Or just make a upgrade on my NAS and use these DVDFab + BluRayFab + MakeMKV running on my desktop and put it all on NAS by network (I have a excellent network here). What should it be your choice? Again, sorry for may long history but I am trying decide about best way for a long long time. Thank you so much and regards
No, unfortunately, MakeMKV does not rip to M2TS. DVDFab is what I use to rip to M2TS, which is $50 I think. You’ll need a 4K friendly drive to do the ripping though.
I have not been able to play 3D Blu-rays via Zappiti NAS 4K HDR SE to Zappiti Reference on my LG G2 OLED. Am I missing something? The 3D movies will play if I select Play Menu. I have to select the option to not play the movie menu and then the 3D Blu-ray appears to be in 2D instead of 3D. I'm not sure if I'm missing something.
You can yes IF you give the disc a good cleaning first. Pick up a bottle of LCD screen cleaner (Try Screen Mom, found on Amazon). Spray on and wipe off with included microfiber cloth. Wipe off cleaning solution ACROSS the grain and NEVER in a circular motion. Once complete hold disc between thumb and middle finger and catch the light just right to verify the absence of any smudges. If you still experience read errors have the disc replaced by the manufacturer, no need to keep cleaning and retrying the rips.
After ripping a M2TS file do I need to do any extra steps or can I just take it straight to my Plex server? I've been ripping using MKV but if you say M2TS is overall better I'll try it
Hi Jake! Sorry if it was not clear, you will need to ri MKV for use with Plex. I don't think M2TS will work for Plex, just directly into a 4K player or 4K media player like a Zappiti or Zidoo.
Hello TD, did you have any 4K disk that failed to rip? Either by using DVDFab and MakeMKV? I have a few disk that failed to even read where there is no blemish on the disk I can see. If so, what were the errors and what you did if anything to fix them. Keep up the good works. PM
Hi Paul! That’s the thing about ripping discs, it isn’t 100%. There will always be discs like that. I know I was able to rip 6 of the 8 movies in the 4K Harry Potter series but I can’t get those other two to rip properly. It’s just that way. Some just don’t work.
Thanks TD. So you will never be able to completed get rid of your players. I have issues with Saving Private Ryan, Transformers-last Knight, Star Wars-the last Jedi. For whatever reason those will not RIP. One thing I did find out how to do was RIP my SACD's and play back the files on OPPO 203. So that is good news. Thanks PM
Hey TD, I happened to be in BBuy the other day and saw a copy of Saving Private Ryen 4k disk for 9 bucks and picked it up just to see if it would RIP. The disk ripped without issue so go figure. The other disk must have some blemishes on it that is not easily seen. So I will throw that disk away. PM
@@TechnoDad I can see that you are a busy guy ... but you are the only one dealing with this subject ... so I thought that I would ask. I got the "Alex" disk drive and MakeMKV ... backed up the disc ... plugged it into the X100. I see all the folders ... but no files and no "auto" play? Any ideas?
@@aussieaussie3871 Hi! The Reavon X100 will not play BDMV folders. It will play MKV and M2TS. You will need something like a Zappiti or Zidoo to play BDMV folders. Rip the movie to MKV using MakeMKV and you should be fine.
Great video - would an external BD player like this plugged into my desktop (AMD Ryzen 5 / 2600 6-core / GT1030 / 16gb) work in converting BD to MP4 do you think?
Have a question, I have a few Blu Rays concerts and I want to pull just the audio tracks, I do use makemkv and I can see the audio track (I think it is) but I end up with MKV file I want to end up with FLAC or WAV file, do you know how I can do that. I want to maintain the uncompressed audio
When I rip TV shows on blu ray should I backup via BDMV? Do you have a way of organizing the files? Also what about dvds? What format do you prefer since the BDMV backup option isn't really available? Should I just do a pure MKV?
There's no with MakeMKV to organize files before creating a BDMV folder. MakeMKV makes a 1:1 copy of the entire disc including menus so tje BDMV folder should look exactly like the source disc. As BDMV stands for Blu Ray Disc Movie (folder) it's blu ray only so DVD I'd stick with mkv files.
@@TechnoDad I had a movie in MKV format with DV that wouldn't work on my OLED over Plex or a flash drive (it would just show up green) and I looked up my problem on Google and found out that apparently LG OLED TVs support DV in both MP4 as well as M2TS so I used an old program called MKV2M2TS that I used to use for my PS3 back in the day. It converted but just did the same thing so I wonder if there's just something about the structure of MKV that it has a problem with, I'm not entirely sure.
Hi, great video Channa! I used the MKV 3D pass through. However, the movie just looks like a regular movie (2D). It didn’t put it in 3D. Did I do something wrong? I used all the steps you said. Help!
Yes, sort of. The Zappiti is in the studio downstairs, however, I can access all those files in my living room and bedroom which are upstairs. I can play the files on different devices but they are being accessed in the Zappiti
I just ordered a cheap external blu ray player for my laptop, in the fine print after shipping it says doesn't support blu ray playback alone download blu ray player and use simultaneously. Is the VLC player enough to plug and play for something like that?
Hey TechnoDad! We're wanting to buy a Synology ds920+ and convert all our old DVDs and BluRays using DVDFab and host them on the Plex Media Server. I'm still not quite sure what external UHD drive to buy (don't think I can fit an internal one in my PC) and since it's been awhile since you posted this video, is there any new advice you could provide? I can't seem to get ahold of Alex at the email address you provided. Thanks for your help!
Hi Kathleen! I spoke to Alex and his email is active and working. There are instructions online for how to flash your own drive, but I have not tried it.
There is so much to unpack in this video and so much useful information in the description. This video deserves an Oscar for Technical Achievement.
Lol, thank you Tristan!
I have watched this several times while trying to set things up for the new Zappiti I will be buying. Wish I would have paid closer attention as I purchased the whole DVDFab instead of just the two programs that I needed.
I fully recommend going with Alex, very fast, friendly and knowledgeable. He handles the warranty as well. I got my drive a few weeks ago and running strong.
Couldn't agree more!
Thanks Jerry!
Is the drive I'd have to get internal only, or external only, or is it either/or? Also for the sake of asking, what OSs are supported? Just Mac and Windows, or if I picked up Linux would it work there too?
@@alexcoluzzi I want to see about getting a drive, what's your e-mail to contact you?
made it 8 min 6 seconds into the video before I bought the Cadilac from Alex, and have been backing up my movies since yesterday! Like a glove!
Nice! I’m still ripping stuff and ordering more movies. Lol!!
Enjoy it sir! Thank you.
Whats the email to buy one
I own over 700 blu-ray plus 200 UHD discs. I got a lot of ripping to do.
Thanks for another great tutorial on ripping disc Techno Dad!
You’re welcome David! I just bought a whole bunch so my PS will be busy this holiday season!!
me too, 1200 blu-rays, 110 4k and 100 HD DVD (I know haha). That's a LOT of hard drive space, and what about backing all that up? Don't want to have to rip everything again. I do have all my titles ripped, but transcoded to mp4 to save space. I use them on tablets and flash drives when traveling. I do have everything backed up to 2nd drive. If I kept every thing 1:1 rip i would need dozens of TBs of space. When I want the best experience in my theater I simply use the original disc.
Great thorough tutorial Channa! If I decide to do some ripping, I will follow this closely. We have 400+ 4K discs alone. About 600 hours I’d ripping just for our 4K! Have an awesome day man!
Glad you liked it!
I recently received mu UHD drive from Alex (Jan 2023 - Delivered to Montreal). Alex is very reliable. My ASUS drive works amazing. Thanks to you TD and of course Alex!
Thanks Techno Dad. Alex set me up with a great disc drive and was super helpful.
Nice!
Thanks Jeff!
Fantastic video! I learnt some of these lessons the hard way when ripping my DVDs and Blu rays about 600 of them two or three years ago. I stopped at 4k UHD because I only had one disc, Dunkirk, and at the time you had to have the right UHD drive plus know a guy that could give you a code for each particular movie and I wasn't prepared to deal with that nonsense. Now I've got about 25 UHD's I might get back into it. Plus I'm jealous of that 3D Oled TV, absolutely love the 3D format. With 3d rips for Plex it does work however it's more hassle than its worth with the menus being all screwed up and the tv not auto recognising 3d content from Plex, so I just avoid guess that's another plus point to the premium Zappitti player.
Awesome walk through. Never heard of Zappiti. Nice hardware. Alex Coluzzi was top notch and very honest. Great drive and saved me a lot of work. Highly recommended.
You're welcome and thank you for sharing your experience!
Do you know when the new one is coming out?
Thank you.
Perfect no BS tutorial.
The great irony: Because I knew I would have to revisit this video, I ripped and saved it for instant reference :P
Thank you, Jack!!!
Techno Dad, you look a bit like Jeff Goldblum.
Thanks! I get that a lot.
And how!
Reminds me of the guy from fifth element (not Bruce Willis)
@@leglessmatt you're thinking of Chris Tucker. His hair not as good as Tucker's, but his voice is way preferable.
With a bit of M Night Shamaylan.
That Windows ding sound, made me check my notifications :D
Sorry!! I forgot to mute it.
😂 Me too
lmao
I'm in the middle of setting up a new NAS and was sure something had gone wrong.
I've so been waiting for this how to
Right on!!!
Hi Techno Dad. I picked up the UHD Pro after watching your Zappiti video. Thanks the review! What drive do you recommend for 4k ripping?
Great video! Just had my drives and Zappiti show up. Looking forward to getting started.
Nice!!
@@TechnoDad I love it when you do tech vids, you're very good at simplifing things down - I wish you would do more its very appreciated much respect T.D. :)
Let us all know how it went, I want to order mine as well
Just a quick question : Why do you "prefer" M2TS pass through using DVDFAB vs Make MKV (movie only) option ??
I'm only asking as I'm fairly new to blu-ray movie to file ripping, i just purchased a Zappiti ONE 4K Media Player, so im currently ripping blu-ray "main movie only" to MKV files, ready for the Zappiti when it arrives. 😊👌👍
Everybody: I have no idea how to back up my 4k discs to a hard drive. Even thinking about it makes me want to hurl.
Techno Dad: I got you fam.
Sometimes I think people forget that you can actually search the internet for things.
Lol
@@Lonewolf-ei5yv It brought back memories of waiting for that £300 Sony IDE Rewritable drive to back up DVDs in the early 2000s. Dem were the days... ;-)
@@Lonewolf-ei5yv they'll be none of that crazy talk in here sir :)
Tristan Jones do you still need help?
I'm going to buy a Zappiti and I've search for a video like this without any good results. Will definitely save/bookmark this video to use later when I've bought the Zappiti. BIG thanks for this video VERY useful and informative. Really great!
No problem!!
Thanks for this! I'm only now learning more about Dolby Vision. Would be very interested to know where you heard about the next generation of Zappiti players and what they will and won't support. I just have a 4k HDR mini and love it to bits! Very interested to know more about these next gen models.
Great video techno dad! When ripping tv show blu rays, do you recommend M2TS or bdmv?
Hi Troy! I would go with BDMV folders as I have a device that will play them. You could rip each show to MKV or M2TS though. It all depends.
Very well done TD. I’m going to have to watch that a few times. This was very helpful as I realized a few things I have been doing wrong. Any thoughts if DV support will be a firmware update or is that a hardware update? It’s crazy how the oppo was so far ahead of its time & yet, is the best player out there.
Hello Brandon, Glad you liked it! The Dolby Vision and HDR10+ support will be on the new versions, so I would wait until next year.
The manufacture says that DV will have to be a hardware update. Not a software update.
@@TechnoDad can you do a video on how to remux a 4k dolby atmos or DTS-X onto a ripped 3d or Blu-ray of the same movie that is only in 5.1. Please help? Love your channel and this video was excellent.
@@mpg732 I have a question , please
Behind with this one been looking for a guide like this thanks Dad
Hi Techno Dad,
I’ve watched your 4K “NAS” videos, including this one, many times over to ensure that I’m following your instructions to the letter and have had MAGNIFICENT success.
I found Billy (great guy) and was able to have my ASUS drive’s firmware flashed remotely.
I was able to use MakeMV to rip my purchased UHD disc to my personal hard drive flawlessly.
The question I have is related to ripping the disc as a BDMV as you did in this video.
I only see the option for outputting the file a .mkv.
How do I rip as .iso or BDMV using only MakeMKV?
Thanks so much for your content, you are THE MAN!
Thx for this! I haven’t ripped in about 10 years. I’m assuming rip lock is still a problem? Are there any optical drives that don’t need to be flashed? I used to use imgburn(Mac) and anydvd(win) and it seemed to work well. Do you still have to hunt through fake playlists w/4k? Would like to just go iso/1:1 and stream my files w/DV & atmos support.
When this generation of drives we're using was first released all 2016 and 2017 models were shipped with firmware that exposed the "backdoor" that is used to bypass copy protection and thus did not have to be "flashed".
Sometime in 2018 they released firmware that closed this loophole and thus the flashing did begin.
Being somewhat of a purist myself back then I made it mission to track down as many "factory original" (drives with the "backdoor" firmware installed) drives still in existence and for sale.
Thanks to stores like Fry's Electronics who pride themselves on stocking last year's and the year's before builds of components I cleaned up lol. I was able to find and liberate around 850 factory original drives but eventually I too had to start flashing drives.
It was cool while it lasted. A total nerd scavenger hunt as I either visited or called every fry's location in the country and had them scour their stores looking for the magical date codes on every single ASUS and LG blu ray drive they had in stock. They were always more than happy to send as many as I wanted from all across the country, store to store inventory transfer in one of their fleet of Fry's trucks. Destination Palo Alto store 3. R.I.P. Fry's Electronics!
I have used MKV files for a long time. Is there an advantage to using M2TS?
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I used to use M2TS passthrough all the time since it is the native format on Blu-Ray discs and more players could play M2TS than MKV. I have recently switched to MKV passthrough though, so that I get chapter marks, and the files are slightly smaller, and most players have been updated over the years to support MKV.
Nope, most people use mkv and the application MakeMKV to rip them.
Dam TD about to hit the 100,000 mark congrats
Thank you Mark!! Should be there in four months time!!
What happened to all of the FBI and Interpol warnings as well as the ads for coming attractions?
We have brein nog FBI.
They went out for their urinalysis but don't worry, they'll be back later, thank you.
Hi Channa! Fantastic tutorial as always, it helped a lot! I am having trouble with the subtitle ripping. If I choose for example in Stargate Atlantis and Grimm to rip also the forced subtitles, then at playback it doesn't show any subtitles regardless that in the list I could choose even 2 english subtitle track. I suppose this is because it probably doesn't have any forced subtitle at all on the original disc? Which means I have to know if the movie/series has forced subtitle at all and choose accordingly before ripping? How can I find this out? Thanks, Gabor
Miss my C6 and the 3D watching! Wanted to watch Polar Express in 3D...
It’s gonna be a sad day when I have to replace mine.
@@DasTechGuy I have a 65G6V (was 8000 at retail price) one of the best and last 3D TV ever made, how much you think it can worth today?
@@carminedepaola8018 Tough to say... OLED inherently degrades over time and is ever as bright as the first day it was bought and used. Despite that, and the lack of Dolby Vision support at frame rates above 30 fps, you have a great integrated sound bar and 3D support along with OLED just being a great viewing experience in general. Not sure if LG's White Glove will still be available for a display that is 4 / 5 years old now but that was something I always brought up to folks looking at the G6 over the E6, C6, & B6 models at that time. If you found the right buyer you could probably still make anywhere from $1,000 to $3,000 or so on the lower end. I certainly doubt you'd be able to get back up to original retail value sadly though.
@@DasTechGuy Interesting. Do you think the G6 has better OLED brightness longevity than the cheaper LG oleds?
@@farouttech4275 No, not at all. LG's older OLED models all used the same organic display layer. They would all inherently degrade the same over time. However, the larger the display, the quicker you'd begin to notice that change, slow as that change might be over time and use. Now that LG's 2021 OLEDs are splitting their models between a base organic display layer and an organic EVO Display layer on the higher models it will be interesting to watch if there is a difference in the levels of fading degradation between the models. Though there are now rumors circulating that all of the LG's 2021 models have the same EVO panel but that the system on a chip that runs each model level of LG's 2021 OLEDs has different instructions on how to use the new panel or even just treat it as a normal panel.
super informative and a cool channel name and great quality all around. SUBBED!!!
Thank you so much! Welcome!
I like ISO more, can you make a tutorial for that?
It’s pretty easy, maybe next week.
What is it you like about ISO files vs MKV or MP4? Just curious.
@@stevejeffery4857 you get all the options. Nothing gets thrown out.
Can anyone recommend the best external plug in 4k 3d player to put the disks in?
You mean on PC? better to get and use a UHD Bluray player that supports Bluray 3D and is Universal plays all region you can play normal Blurays and UHD Blurays if you rip them or use Cyberlink PowerDVD software, technically it should support Bluray 3D as well but whether it can actually play 3D is down to your graphics card, video interface you're using and drivers. In most cases you can't play on pc these days unless you rip to mkv and play using something like Virtual Desktop and a compatible SteamVR/PCVR Headset. So no sharing with others. I mean if you're using SBS for example you may be able to select 3D on the remote or menu for your intended 3D display and that way you can use 3D but .srt subtitle files will probably be messed up and you'll probably have to burn in eg. Foreign language subtitles manually or when you rip, multiplex or Hanbreak (Transcode) but the positioning (and maybe timing) of them could still be an issue if you don't know what you're doing or just having trouble.
Plex has a support for 3d
Nice!
Since no one can locate Alex are their any suggestions to an external 4K Blu Ray ripper?
Do we need a program like Zappiti to play the files or is it just a physical machine to play them? Wondering because I'm trying to figure out how I would go about playing the files on my TV, Computer and phone. New to all this... My goal is to rip the files to an external drive and plug that drive into my devices and be able to play the movie file right off the external drive.
How do you preserve those DVD and blu ray menu games? Do you know of any cases where some aspects of some media can't be backed up to these systems?
I just have one question. Can the drive also rip dvd’s or is it just blu rays? I want to start ripping all my stuff for my media server
Just a heads up - MKV has supported Dolby Vision for awhile now, and Plex supports that format as well now - your info is slightly out of date. That's a 1:1 rip, including Atmos if it's there.
That just happened in mid October is what I’m finding out. Too bad there’s transcoding involved in Plex as that inherently degrades the quality. I will check which way it sends Dolby Atmos, because I do have a hunch, and if I’m right, then You’re better off buying from Vudu and using the app instead of spending all the time to rip movies at 1:1 and then compress it to be sent to your TV.
@@TechnoDad There’s no transcoding and up until a week ago they highly encouraged you to disable any transcoding due to horrendous HDR tone mapping when doing so (the latest version fixes this). The MKV specs pulled in Dolby Vision profile 7 / dual layer back at the beginning of the year. MakeMKV supported ripping into that format a few months ago. Plex has supported dual layer (the proper way to do DV on a rip) since a roughly a month ago. Any device that Plex runs on that supports profile 7 runs without transcoding (the Shield for example).
@@BlownMacTruck That's great information, thank you for that!
Hi that's a hell of a video about ripping. For 3D blu-ray why would you choose 3D MKV over a folder backup with MakeMKV ?
Hi! Space is the reason. If I rip to BDMV all the time, I'll be using up more space. M2TS and MKV will be just the movie file and less space taken up on your HDD.
Great video again TD really enjoy your tips and help. I have close to 10,000 DVD/Blu-Ray's & 300 4K discs what do you recommend? I want to be able to burn them all to watch without grabbing the physical discs how big of a storage and player do you recommend please help and recommend something that is not in the thousands of $$$. Thanks.
Question… is it possible to take build/create one movie out of 2 different DVD’s ? I have the Movie “Gravity” in Blu-Ray 3D and in the Blu-Ray Diamond Luxe Edition. Is it possible to take the “Audio” from Diamond Luxe Edition and merge it with the “3D Video” file and make it into one viewable movie ? Would be the best of both worlds.
Very good information. When ripping 4k discs, do you find that the drive must be plugged into a USB 3 port or the rip will eventually fail? Also, I have to clean the discs very thoroughly with alcohol to get them to rip and then they will sometimes fail and have to be reclined and ripped again. I am using the LG drive Alex sells but it still can be an arduous task sometimes to get a 4k ripped. Any ideas? Thanks Benny
@@satpak9383 It's not a warranty issue it's one of the details to be aware of. 4K discs should be cleaned before you attempt to back them up and even then it's not guaranteed that every single one can be back up. Visit the makemkv message boaard to go over best practices when using these drives.
Happy New Year. Quick question. Does dvdfab also have BDMV=Dolby Vision function or can that only by done with MakeMKV? Thanks in advance
Hello quick question does this work with DVDS from like other country’s that are region locked like from Japan and South America etc?
They will still have zone restrictions.
A quick tip I found that you didn't mention, When ripping a blu-ray "movie only" (Make MKV) I tick all english Subtitles however I deselect any "forced subtitles" this way I still have the choice of turning "on or off" subtitles, when needed during the movie. 🎬
Great idea!!
Thanks for the video. Is the Zappiti going to be a Firmware update for Dolby Vision, or you have to get the new one? Been thinking about getting the Zappiti, but wanted the Dolby Vision built in.
Wait until the next one for DV support.
Techno Dad. I’m new to your channel. What drive do you rip 4k discs with?
Hi! Email Alex about a 4k compatible drive - alexcoluzzi32@gmail.com
Quick question. Once you have the 3d movie on your computer, can you play it in left to right display? Another words two images. This way a person can play the movie with a VR headset. Thanks.
I’m not sure about that
Hey Techno Dad! I'm not sure I understand correctly. If I rip my Blu-rays and 4K Blu-ray to an M2TS Passthrough file, it doesn't keep the Dolby Vision AND/OR HDR10+ layers in it (because some 4k Blu-ray comes with both formats i.e: Hobbs & Shaw)? Does it keep the chapters too so I can skip through the movie or is that only available with a BDMV folder? Thank you for your informations!
Do you need a special drive for blu-ray or just 4k blu-ray?
Very intresting video... I am curious if you do not compress your media with handbreak or another program. How big is your server?? it must be 100TB or more!
Hi! I do not compress my rips. I have two 16TB drives but I only use one for the server and have like 6 TB left over.
@@TechnoDad oh lol I am using a 10tb Ironwolf pro but I have an actual server coming with 6 4tb ironwolf pros. I do compress some files such as older shows that are black and white because they already are poor quality video so it doesn't hurt them lol that is interesting tho what are you going to do when you run out of space just buy another drive lol
question, if I rip 4k UHD movies to a NAS pc with MKV- the pc nas will not perform any transcoding, simply hold the movie files - can I watch them without losing bitrate or UHD sound quality from a Nvidia Sheild Pro with PLEX on the Nvidia Shield PRO. ? Also does the NAS host pc have to have a good CPU and RAM to stream more than one 4k UHD movie at at time ?
Hi, thanks for your explanation, very informative, is it possible to edit/cut the ripped file? I want to make a shorter version of the movie, thanks again for your time 😊
I don’t think so. At least, not that I know of.
After the Blu Ray is ripped do you take it straight to PLEX or do you take the file through something like Handbrake?
I take the resulting file onto my server. For PLEX, you’ll need to rip to MKV.
@@TechnoDad ok I’ve just been researching if I should be condensing the file sizes but everything is telling me not to do that because it looses quality
I just caught your video (and emailed Alex who has already responded) but in doing some research online I'm seeing quite a few articles stating that unless your PC has an Intel 10th gen or earlier cpu (and AMD doesn't support it at all) you can't read UHD 4K discs. I was going to take the plunge and order the drive from Alex and purchase dvdfab but my two desktop PCs are both AMD. My laptop is a 9th gen Intel that has SGX but I don't want to use my laptop for this lengthy process. Any truth to these statements?
Thanks for the awesome video! I have various blu-rays and UHDs from all over the world - different zones / regions. Can you recommend a USB player to rip any region blu-ray?
Hi! I haven’t had any experience ripping different region blu rays.
yes, i have multi region discs too...what USB player to use??
Hello, can you make another video and explain how to add missing subs in bluray disc ? Thank you. Rip the disc, add missing subs and burn the movie to another disk.
Just ordered my drive from Alex. Was just curious, what hard disk drives do you prefer for file storage?
Hello Vincent, I am using Seagate Ironwolf drives. They are the designated NAS drives they make and are 7200 RPM. You can pretty much get any size but I have two 16TB drives to keep me busy ripping, LOL! Here's a link to drives - technodad.biz/Drives
I got my drive comming from Alex today can't wait😁
Yours should be there anytime.
@@enriquev8653 Party time!
@@alexcoluzzi the party has started. Just ripped my first movie with the drive I got from you. Works like a charm👌
Sorry new to this. So DVD Fab and MKV are 2 different programs that do the same/similar things, in this case ripping? So I don’t need both just one of them?
I am about to buy a 2T Samsung 980 pro and a housing for storage. Will this work?
Hi! You are correct. They both rip, but they rip different output file types. I just updated this video with a bit ore information about this - ruclips.net/video/UsITiDzxcPY/видео.html - about 40 seconds in
I live outside the USA. So can you make a video about "Friendly BLUERAY Drive". Like, which one to buy and how to make it work for ripping.??
Channa D. , Michael from Patreon recommended you. Loved you video, very informative. You made this 12/20, do you have any updates to this since it is now 7/22? I would also like to know how many GB does each disc take up when ripping, I noticed when you did the Saving Private Ryan I saw 90.68 GB listed, can I expect to used roughly this much GB on each rip? If so I would definitely need a few TB drives for my full library. You also mentioned contacting Alex for a drive, what type of drive is it? Thanks for the info keep up the good work.
Hi James! Yes, some discs can get up to 90GB, but that's the entire disc or "disc image." When you rip the movie itself, it could be anywhere from 20 GB - 70 GB. So it all depends. Yes, that's a lot of space. I have 32TB of space for my Zappiti and the 4K friendly drive is something you'll have to order from Alex - alexcoluzzi32@gmail
Realise this is going back a bit, but the recommended setting for bluray, would you use that for normal, pre bluray dvd as well pls?
How much in size is a ripped 1080p and 4K video files?
I have Blu Ray 3d of RIPD 2 disc set the second disc say's Universe it works that way you can watch very well the first disc not so well same happen to Titanic Blu Ray 3d is 4 disc combo pack what do you do with combo packs
Great video!! I'm late to the party but I don't see Alex's email address. Is he still assisting?
What is the most bang for buck player to use for this job to play original disks or does it really matter as long as it plays
Do you mean a 4K player or 4K ripper?
What kind of zappiti are you using and which should we get or can we get something else
Hey guys! Can you help me with a recommendation for a 4k streaming/decoding NAS and some general phone/computer back up please? I just bought the DS224+, which I will returning now. Had my sights set on the DS923+, then debated with DS1522+, DS423, and now I’m looking at the QNAP TS-453E-8G-US. Any suggestions.
Wow great info! This will also read 4k discs? Can you RIP a 4K disc on a computer that doesn’t have a 4K resolution? I have a 2018 Mac Book Pro
Yes you can, it’s just a video file.
Great information, but I do have a question. Have you run into issues with Sight Impaired sound overlay? It rips with movie and plays on all PC players. Does fine on Plex. Any suggestions?
Do the bd rip programs do DVDs too or would I have to get the dvd programs too? What about downscaling (4k down to say 1080p, for file size friendliness).
At the moment I'm not concerned with 4k and IMAX and Dolby and such, just looking for the movie with audio. Would makeMKV be better for me or should I look up the other program.
I'd still have to get a good ripping drive either way I'm sure.
Hi! I don't think MakeMKV does a downscaling thing. I'm also not sure how other software programs would do.
I have a question. I have over 200 movies on a app called Movies Anywhere. Any way to get pass the copyright and rip the movies on to dvd?
When you make the BDMV backup in Makemkv do you get another large file too? So you have the large ISO/mkv file and the backup file?
I use MakeMKV to rip my blu rays, but I have them as MKV files. I have always thought they were as good of quality as the disc itself, am I wrong? Should I be ripping them as M2TS files for better quality? If so, how much quality loss am I getting with MKV? Please let me know.
Hi James! MKV are fine. My Oppo just doesn't play the Atmos tracks in MKVs which is a bug with the Oppo. It will play Atmos with M2TS files so that's why I rip to that file format.
@@TechnoDad Thanks, I use Plex to Roku Ultra and seem to get Atmos through that route.
Techno dad the man
hi. im hoping your method will work because every other method ive tried has given me a 2d movie rather than 3d. so im going to try your method but i have one question. where is the custom button on dvdfab12? i need to enable 3d mkv.mvc.
Hi, Thanks a lot for this. M2ST, isn't it only 264 accelerated? MKV comes 265 accelerated, right.
Actually makemkv does support Dolby Vision. You can rip any 4k UHD disc to a 1-1 mkv file with all the audio with subtitles with Dolby Vision and plex does support it.
That’s what I’ve been hearing and I just tried it with everything else. Looks like that only works on PLEX, MKV files with DV. Not sure why it’s not working anywhere else?
@@TechnoDad I can also confirm the makemkv method with DV does work with PLEX, tested with a MKV and Shield (2019) and DV was enabled on my display.
....waiting on the other Media Server options to catch up!
Anything special you did in the ripping process to get DV?
@@TechnoDad No - it works right out of the box with recent versions of MakeMKV.
what i realized is we can rip 3d bluray movies but i want them in vertical pair ie 3D via one over other how can i do that?
Great stuff...thanks Dad!
Is FabDVD the only way to rip 3D and retain the 3D playability? It's a bit over priced if you ask me.
Hi Techno Dad, congrats for your channel !!!!!
I'm just a little confused when use DVDFab and or MakeMKV (bought the DVDFab by your link and I'm thinking to order the MakeMKV).
Another doubt is when use ISO, m2ts, mkv or BDMV formats. My acomplishment is get out the best result (Audio and Video) to create my DVDs and BDs ripped to transfer my physical collection to media. Also, how I have a big Hi-End AV 4K System here, I want have the same result when I use my Oppo player to run these discs.
Another information to you know, basically 75% of my collection is about music videos and music shows in DVD and Blu Ray. And now a days I my players are last one NVidia Shield, AppleTV 4k (Infuse) and I ordered a new Dune Ultra Vision 4k, also I am analysing to get a second player like a Zappiti Reference or Zidoo UHD3000 (what do you think about them? which one recommend me?)
Sorry for long history here, but your experience will help me to get a better solution, why I have many doubts...
And last one, I saw the Zappiti NAS video and I am analysing it also ordering one, but my first question here come to find the solution because today I have a Synology NAS and how I will change ti to a new big one, maybe could be a good choice to get a Zappitti NAS (or not by the price !!!!), Or just make a upgrade on my NAS and use these DVDFab + BluRayFab + MakeMKV running on my desktop and put it all on NAS by network (I have a excellent network here).
What should it be your choice?
Again, sorry for may long history but I am trying decide about best way for a long long time.
Thank you so much and regards
cool stuff T.D. So MakeMKV cant create the M2TS files? any other free software that can do M2TS?
No, unfortunately, MakeMKV does not rip to M2TS. DVDFab is what I use to rip to M2TS, which is $50 I think. You’ll need a 4K friendly drive to do the ripping though.
@@TechnoDad ok thats too bad about MKV not having ability to do M2TS. Yes I have a Pioneer 4k external drive.
I have not been able to play 3D Blu-rays via Zappiti NAS 4K HDR SE to Zappiti Reference on my LG G2 OLED. Am I missing something? The 3D movies will play if I select Play Menu. I have to select the option to not play the movie menu and then the 3D Blu-ray appears to be in 2D instead of 3D. I'm not sure if I'm missing something.
Can I get some guidance in burning several files like tv series to blu ray? Want to make custom menu. What is best software and settings? Thanks.
That, I don't know how to do. I would imagine a burning software would do something like that with a menu system. Are you on Mac or PC?
@@TechnoDad I'm on a pc windows 10
I have a question. Can you rip the 4K Blu-ray disc movies if they're a slightly bit scratched?!
*Y/N?*
You can try but there could be some skips depending on how scratched the disc is.
You can yes IF you give the disc a good cleaning first. Pick up a bottle of LCD screen cleaner (Try Screen Mom, found on Amazon). Spray on and wipe off with included microfiber cloth. Wipe off cleaning solution ACROSS the grain and NEVER in a circular motion. Once complete hold disc between thumb and middle finger and catch the light just right to verify the absence of any smudges. If you still experience read errors have the disc replaced by the manufacturer, no need to keep cleaning and retrying the rips.
Hello! When should I decrypt video files and when not to? Thank You
After ripping a M2TS file do I need to do any extra steps or can I just take it straight to my Plex server? I've been ripping using MKV but if you say M2TS is overall better I'll try it
Hi Jake! Sorry if it was not clear, you will need to ri MKV for use with Plex. I don't think M2TS will work for Plex, just directly into a 4K player or 4K media player like a Zappiti or Zidoo.
@@TechnoDad Oh okay. It’s no inconvenience for me since I’ve been ripping my Blu-Rays using MKV Passthrough
Hello TD, did you have any 4K disk that failed to rip? Either by using DVDFab and MakeMKV? I have a few disk that failed to even read where there is no blemish on the disk I can see. If so, what were the errors and what you did if anything to fix them.
Keep up the good works.
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Hi Paul! That’s the thing about ripping discs, it isn’t 100%. There will always be discs like that. I know I was able to rip 6 of the 8 movies in the 4K Harry Potter series but I can’t get those other two to rip properly. It’s just that way. Some just don’t work.
Thanks TD. So you will never be able to completed get rid of your players. I have issues with Saving Private Ryan, Transformers-last Knight, Star Wars-the last Jedi. For whatever reason those will not RIP.
One thing I did find out how to do was RIP my SACD's and play back the files on OPPO 203. So that is good news.
Thanks
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Hey TD, I happened to be in BBuy the other day and saw a copy of Saving Private Ryen 4k disk for 9 bucks and picked it up just to see if it would RIP. The disk ripped without issue so go figure. The other disk must have some blemishes on it that is not easily seen. So I will throw that disk away.
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Great overview. Can you address whether a RIPed 4K Blu-ray Discs in M2TS Passthrough profile will play on a Reavon UBR-X100?
Hi! It should. I was able to get them to play on the Reavon X200
@@TechnoDad I can see that you are a busy guy ... but you are the only one dealing with this subject ... so I thought that I would ask. I got the "Alex" disk drive and MakeMKV ... backed up the disc ... plugged it into the X100. I see all the folders ... but no files and no "auto" play? Any ideas?
@@aussieaussie3871 Hi! The Reavon X100 will not play BDMV folders. It will play MKV and M2TS. You will need something like a Zappiti or Zidoo to play BDMV folders. Rip the movie to MKV using MakeMKV and you should be fine.
Great video - would an external BD player like this plugged into my desktop (AMD Ryzen 5 / 2600 6-core / GT1030 / 16gb) work in converting BD to MP4 do you think?
Have a question, I have a few Blu Rays concerts and I want to pull just the audio tracks, I do use makemkv and I can see the audio track (I think it is) but I end up with MKV file I want to end up with FLAC or WAV file, do you know how I can do that. I want to maintain the uncompressed audio
Interesting! I’ve never thought of doing that. Let me look into it. Please email to remind me - TechnoDad55 at gmail dot com
When I rip TV shows on blu ray should I backup via BDMV? Do you have a way of organizing the files?
Also what about dvds? What format do you prefer since the BDMV backup option isn't really available? Should I just do a pure MKV?
There's no with MakeMKV to organize files before creating a BDMV folder. MakeMKV makes a 1:1 copy of the entire disc including menus so tje BDMV folder should look exactly like the source disc. As BDMV stands for Blu Ray Disc Movie (folder) it's blu ray only so DVD I'd stick with mkv files.
I have an LG OLED TV that apparently only supports Dolby Vision in MP4 and M2TS. How would I rip my Dolby Vision discs in those formats?
That’s strange. I haven’t heard of DV on M2TS. What are you using to rip the M2TS with DV?
@@TechnoDad I had a movie in MKV format with DV that wouldn't work on my OLED over Plex or a flash drive (it would just show up green) and I looked up my problem on Google and found out that apparently LG OLED TVs support DV in both MP4 as well as M2TS so I used an old program called MKV2M2TS that I used to use for my PS3 back in the day. It converted but just did the same thing so I wonder if there's just something about the structure of MKV that it has a problem with, I'm not entirely sure.
whats a good external or internal blu ray drive I can buy to rip my blu rays? what do you guys recommend?
Hi! First of all thank for the great Video!! One question! Does the makemkv tool also support the mkv.mvc pass-through option to rip 3D Bluerays?
Yes
Hi, great video Channa! I used the MKV 3D pass through. However, the movie just looks like a regular movie (2D). It didn’t put it in 3D. Did I do something wrong? I used all the steps you said. Help!
I need something budget priced for both films and cds? What do you recommend?
Hey techno dad,
Is your zappiti device your primary device for 4k rippers ?
Yes, sort of. The Zappiti is in the studio downstairs, however, I can access all those files in my living room and bedroom which are upstairs. I can play the files on different devices but they are being accessed in the Zappiti
I just ordered a cheap external blu ray player for my laptop, in the fine print after shipping it says doesn't support blu ray playback alone download blu ray player and use simultaneously. Is the VLC player enough to plug and play for something like that?
Hey TechnoDad! We're wanting to buy a Synology ds920+ and convert all our old DVDs and BluRays using DVDFab and host them on the Plex Media Server. I'm still not quite sure what external UHD drive to buy (don't think I can fit an internal one in my PC) and since it's been awhile since you posted this video, is there any new advice you could provide? I can't seem to get ahold of Alex at the email address you provided. Thanks for your help!
We've connected! My email address is still alexcoluzzi32@gmail.com or you can text me at 650-850-2442 thank you.
Hi Kathleen! I spoke to Alex and his email is active and working. There are instructions online for how to flash your own drive, but I have not tried it.