How To Rip 4K Blu-ray Movies & TV Seasons in 2024! | COMPRESSION & MORE
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Today on TwoGuyzTech, Logan is going to be going over some improvements that can be made to the process of ripping 4K Blu-ray movies, and how to manage some special case scenarios, like ripping episodes from TV Season discs, splitting MKV files that are marked with chapters, and combining multi-disc movies to get the best playback experience possible for streaming.
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A fantastic one stop shop for an old giffer like me that last ripped a disc back in the early 2000's - a lot has changed since then for sure... Thanks again.
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful :)
brother, after flashing LG drive, can we play all region 4K ultra HD bluray disc? it is support dolby vision or HDR 10 ? can we connect and play on zidoo z9x pro? Thanx if you can explain 😎
Started my own plex server using your older videos. A+ content.
Thank you so much for the kind comment! Glad the videos were helpful.
brother, after flashing LG drive, can we play all region 4K ultra HD bluray disc? it is support dolby vision or HDR 10 ? can we connect and play on zidoo z9x pro? Thanx if you can explain 😎
You read my mind---I had just started ripping my own copies of the 4K LOTR Extended edition BDs. Lifesaver!
Awesome coincidence!! Hope this is helpful then, thanks for watching!
@@TwoGuyzTech Your videos have been immensely helpful since I decided to buy a NAS! Found your channel when I was on the fence on the UGREEN NAS; ended up going with Synology instead.
You did an excellent job of going over each scenario. Very well done
We really appreciate it! Thanks for watching.
Thank you for the annual update!!! Live this!+
Found this channel a couple of weeks ago. This has been great. I've since started ripping and using my own plex server and it is awesome. Planning to get a UGreen NAS and make it bigger.
We really appreciate it! Thanks for watching, we hope you enjoy the setup :)
Great video! Very informative.
This is a great one. I just ripped my entire library over the last 6 weeks using your older videos as guides. Started with an ASUS BD-R drive, but returned that one and switched to the LG. The ASUS was scratching my discs. Anyway, I used MKVToolNix to multiplex the mkv files when removing subtitle tracks I didn't want (after MakeMKV did its thing), relabeled things and even did the split after chapter and appending for episodes of Lost that are recognized by Plex and Zidoo as separate or combined episodes. But, I don't know why, it totally slipped my mind that I could do this merging of MKV files for LOTR Extended Editions or The Hobbit 3D Extended Editions. I'm combining them now and then gonna throw them back up on the Synology NAS!
Thanks for your videos!
Great tutorial 👍 Thanks…
Your channel has been so helpful. I’m still debating on buying a NAS or building one. Waiting on a sale for something that will work for me. But I appreciate this detailed breakdown on the ripping process.
ASRock n100, m.2 SATA adapter and a SATA PCIe card. I paid 400€ for a 8 Bay NAS, excluding HDDs.
Proxmox as the OS with TrueNAS in a VM. Look into it!
Thank you so much! We're hoping to have some content related to DIY NASes coming out soon. We're glad the videos are helpful :)
Do you recommend a used i7 8700 for Nas? They're at about 20 USD in my country
*Do not* use nvenc or other gpu encoding. It is designed for livestreaming (ie. speed) and not high quality encoding. Downsizing and compressing 4k movies to 1080p works really well with h.265 (passthrough metadata in handbrake should always be turned on for hdr ) and if you have your original discs, you can always convert them again when the next big compression standard comes out. There are lots of topics to discuss... ie, if you convert to h.265 for Plex server, and your TV does not have h.265 decode ability, your server will need to do a re-encode to a format the device supports. Handbrake could probably have a series of videos to review all of the options and how to use them correctly.
Thanks for watching! Indeed it is a very complicated topic. I've had good luck with NVENC (Gen 7 on Ampere) at a glance the output is pretty decent, but I haven't viewed it on an HDR display, and it's by no means the most optimal solution. We hope to take a really deep dive into this (and real time transcoding for streaming) quite soon!
@@TwoGuyzTech in my experience it is very blocky. The focus of nvenc is quick encoding and quick decoding. Unfortunately to get a quality encode in the smallest file is a slow process. You should keep up on this series... the information available is all over the place and giving new comers a series of videos to get started is great... keep it up!
@@GetOffMyyLawn Then what should I select? I don't want my CPU to be fried.
@@charlesdoesmore5488 I usually use h.265 10 bit, constant framerate, encoder preset slower, constant quality 22. It will make your cpu run full blast, and will take a long time. If you don't care about file size, then just use the instructions to create mkv files straight from the disc.
brother, after flashing LG drive, can we play all region 4K ultra HD bluray disc? it is support dolby vision or HDR 10 ? can we connect and play on zidoo z9x pro? Thanx if you can explain 😎
Thanks for such a comprehensive guide. I'm using MakeMKV with MacOS. Just a couple of questions. How do you deal with TV shows episodes being out of order? does MakeMKV installs Java? I don't want Java at all in my OS, I'm a little bit paranoid and I think it's a well know security breach. Thank you!
Great video. You literally explained my ?s I am wondering though, if I'm only going to rip Blu-ray no 4ks yet. With the player you use the m disk lg player do I need to flash the stuff if no riping to 4k ?
Dude awesome video, the MakeMKV is just like the old DVD Decrypter 😊
I would give them money, but there’s actually no way to do that.
@@GamerFromJump true, I would do the same as well. 😁
@@GamerFromJumpyou can buy a key
I’ve been ripping with a Pioneer BDR-UD04 and MakeMKV for ~2 years now. It’s an excellent drive for this and it can also burn DVDs, Blu-Rays, UHD Blu-Rays and M-Discs (for archival purposes).
Hello, I just had to return that lg optical drive today, because it stopped working after a couple weeks. This seems to be a very common issue. Is there a more reliable option that is reasonably priced?
Would you reccommed using TrueHD or FLAC when ripping 4K discs?
I like the wii u stand for the disc!
Haha glad someone noticed!!! Thanks for watching :)
The mist difficult thing I found at least a few years ago was encoding/compression of 4K HDR to maintain support for the most amount of playback devices and not losing certain HDR features. For instance maintaining playback of dolby vision, HDR10+, and HDR10 with proper failover for what the playback device supports. Requires special consideration to the HDR profiles and settings used for H265 encoding. Idk of they've sort of streamlined it now.
So @TwoGuyzTech I have my ASUS optical drive all set up and ready to rip using MakeMKV. So before I start, should I rip EITHER to .iso format OR select full disc back ups which I believe are BDMV format?
With the Terramaster 4Bay NAS if you have setup 2 drives with the default Terramaster RAiD can you later add more drives without deleting your data on the first 2 drives?
Could you get into using windows 11 Raid services to setup drives? Everything i find is about doing it on Synology or in Linux
Thank you so much😊, this will be really useful one day ,Blu-rays do get damage occasionally and it will be ashamed if you lose that movie, one really good question, I heard a rumour a good RUclipsr who talks about 4K Blu-rays, he says the latest CPUs like intel 14 gen 13 gen are blocking 4K you can't even play on on the disc is it true is there a way to solve this problem.
Thank you so much keep up the good work you're doing😊
Does this work for putting the Dolby Atmos of a 4K UHD movie on a 3D Blu-ray? Would ripping a 3D Blu-ray be the same process?
I'm looking to use my PC to stream for my projectpr. I've looked online for frontends and everything points to Kodi but I don't want Kodi. Do you have any frontends that you recommend for the PC so I could have everything enabled through my PC for my projector.
I would like to know how to put a cover picture on the mkv 4k rip file as i tried it with mkvtoolnix gui its very easy to do as a followed a youtube guide and made sure my picture is png or jpeg and renamed it to cover and is under 800 resolution and went into attachment.
But it just made another copy of the film when i click on the multiplexing button and still has the vlc player original orange cone. Is there a special codex to use for vlc player to recognise the new cover picture or does this only work if i use K-Lite Codec Pack and player and don't use vlc player.
Awesome video! I wanted to see if anyone has gotten the SDFlasher to work on windows 11?
Works the LG Electronics WH14NS40 With Mac? I bought a m2 especially
You should do a video on 3D Blu-ray for viewing on VR.
would this method work for blurays from different regions?
Is there a way to stream UHD rips from the NAS without *any* quality loss through the stream?
Got my own plex server set up on the exact same nas you have 🤣 havent ripped anything for years, so it'll be good to brush up and get the correct drive now my old one is broken 😁
Can you do a 3D ripping guide for SBS
Hi, is there any video of how to RIP a 4K movie into a blu-ray. I have tried Roxio Toast Pro and Final Cut Pro and none of them seem to work. Thanks
What about movies with Dolby Vision? Afaik MakeMKV does not incorporate the DV layer into the MKV. Can you make a tutorial about that as well please?
Reading online, it seems that Dolby Vision data is preserved by MakeMKV. The issue is that very few media players know what to do with it.
Dolby vision is retained by MakeMKV, but you can only stream it with a device capable of streaming DV Profile 7. Normal streaming apps use DV Profile 5. The NVIDIA Shield is one of these, as well as many TVs these days. Xbox S|X and PS5 cannot stream this profile of DV. If you process the video through handbrake, however, DV is lost completely and only HDR10 is retained.
Is there a new Beta license coming out currently getting license error but the live should still be good.
Do these drive allow playback of 4k blurays on windows?
Which software could you recommend to playback those 4k UHD iso files (1:1copies from disc, not shrinked files by mkvtoolnix) in Windows 10 or 11?
It's been years since Power DVD doesn't support this feature any more and VLC player is crap when it comes to picture quality when using a dedicated player like the OPPO series.
Media player if it can handle it, best software hands down
And this is, lady and gentlemen, how to own a piece of media for real
Is there a way to remove HDR from 4k rips?
I set everything up and can rip dvd and Blu-ray but when I insert a 4K disc it says “no disc” any ideas?
Dropping an uncompressed mkv in Plex will cause your Plex server to transcode the file every time you play it. Although it's nice to transcode only from an uncompressed source like that, I prefer to pre-encode my videos to something that won't get transcoded as much. I think Plex only supports direct play for 4k videos in mp4 format only. Also, Handbrake is only the beginning...once you start learning avisynth, that's a whole new rabbit hole on how to encode your videos. ;)
Hey, is the sound as good as on the original discs? for example I have a disc with DTS-5.1 MA or Dolby Atmos is it the same in the copied version on your computer as on the original one?
You can always re rip it later, it won't be noticable I'm a sound engineer with a computer background.
hey i dont see the firmware for the lg wh14ns40 in the download?
I followed the steps from your original steps. I ran into an issue where you needed the 4K keys to be able to unlock them. That is something that is not covered in this video.
Is there anyway I can talk to you guys away from here, I need help with all of this. I have 240 dvds and probably another 3-400 blu ray/4k’s that I’d like to rip and store them. I have no idea what to do when it comes to this kind of process. I have a really nice setup in my basement but when it comes to this I’m at a loss. Really could use help, thx.
So then how do we rip the bonus features such as deleted features? Or how do I get multiple dubs?
Thanks for watching! These will simply appear as other smaller tracks on the disc that you can also rip with MakeMKV. If you want any extra audio tracks while ripping, expand the title you're ripping and select the languages you want to have included in your MKV. Hope this helps!
Well I'd not use a Nass but will place em on a home media center I build out myself
Really great guide. That being said, holy cow what a PITA! This convinced me I don’t want to jump into the rabbit hole of ripping. Easier to stick with DVDs or get therapy for hoarding. 😆
Eh once you've done it a couple times and developed a workflow it's pretty simple. Especially if you're just doing movies that don't need subtitles. Rip it, rename it, recompress it using a preset, drag the finished movie to your Plex folder, repeat for however many you have, delete any leftover files at the end and hit scan on your Plex library.
the drive you linked on amazon doesnt support 4k playback...
Hello I just bought the drive and enclosure that you suggested. My only concern is that I want to ensure I do not loose any quality with video and audio when I rip my content. Will this procedure ensure that I have the same quality when I stream vs when I play the disc?
If you don't transcode, yes
I'll have to check out the MKV tool you demonstrated, is there anything that helps identify the episode titles after using MKV?
You kinda just need to open em in VLC and check em. Typically whatever show you're watching will have a title after the opening credits but sometimes you have to look at the next episode preview if there is one, or sometimes you just have to compare against the synopsis on TVDB. Most of the time the episodes are arranged sequentially and then I can just use PowerRename to put the proper episode numbers on. I also occasionally use filebot to put the titles on but it doesn't work super well if the episodes aren't numbered right in the first place
Not automatically. But the easiest way to determine the episode structure on the disc is to look at the "Source File Name" of each file that MakeMKV detects. You can see it over on the right hand side in this video but he doesn't mention it. The smallest number is the first episode on the disc, and the episodes increase numerically from there. Sometimes it'll skip several numbers at a time, but as long as you name the files sequentially, you're good.
This has only been true for Blu-Ray TV show sets in my experience. DVDs are almost always already in order top to bottom, but you can still use this method to double check.
Can I buy a second drive and rip two at once? I have a 9700K and 4090
So my family has quite a large digital movie collection, which I have added a lot of movies to. I've recently moved out and would rather have hard copies do u know how to rip DVDs in reverse. I've been searching the Internet endlessly for answers and could really use some help.
No idea sorry, try a DVD rw?
What’s the Best Apps for Burning Blu-ray’s and Playing Blu-ray’s on PC and Mac ?…….
about chapters in a single mkv for tv shows. dunno about blurays, but dvds often have such large file with all the episodes on a disc crammed into one with chapters. problem is, sometimes theres a chapter for intro, few chapters per episode, then outro is also a chapter and so on. meaning, sometimes you cant split that large file per chapters since youll end up with gajillion files and its timeconsuming to glue all those together to get mkvs per episode. as i said, dunno about blurays but i do run into such cases with dvds of tv shows. thats why i always deselect that file since there are files for individual episodes also available as well, always.
Thanks for watching! Splitting by specific chapters as I showed in the video with MKVToolNix would help in this case. Having a single track split by chapters (without other tracks available) is mostly applicable to Blu-ray releases of TV series from other countries, but that's just the account of others who have ran into this same issue that I've helped in the past.
They cover this in the vid. Instead of selecting to split by chapters, there's a "before chapters" option that lets you give a comma separated list of what chapter each episode starts on. Usually it's a regular cadence like 6,11,16,21,26, etc so after you've seen a couple you can just extrapolate out and spot check the last few. There are a few discs that have both episodes by title and a glommed-together one at the end, but usually it's one or the other
@@kameoosama lol, saw it after i posted haha. anyways, yes. method described in the video should and does work. but… if its a cartoon, and one giant file with chapters has like 20 episodes crammed into it, and each episode is like 4 chapters, remembering all those numbers to enter into mkvtoolnix can be a pita, lol. that being said, i gots a i am weasel dvd thats just that and i will have to use this method, no matter how boring and twdious it will get. cheers.
@@TwoGuyzTech all good, agreed. i posted right before video got to that part, hahah. typical. cheers!
Oh yeah, there are a couple anime in 'SD-BD' format I have. Standard Definition video on a Blu-ray, so you have 50+ episodes crammed on just one or two discs. And the company that put those out likes to do all their discs as one sequential title so yeah once I looked at the first couple I just did the sequential counting I mentioned out to like chapter 100-something and checked the chapter numbers I had projected for the last couple in VLC to make sure there wasn't like, an extra chapter somewhere causing drift before I split it out. Saved a ton of time versus checking every single episode. I keep that chapter list sitting in my notepad++ buffer since it tends to work for everything else they do too, although I generally only need like the first third
Can't I use a USB-C bluray drive?
Is ripping to iso not possible with 4KBR? Looking to keep everything on the disk.
No Problem, just use makeMKVs Backup function. It copies everything. Then you need a program to create an iso of the folder.
Alright, here's a couple of questions.
The first, I already know the answer... How to merge seacam, PAL and ntsc? The answer, would be to first trim of copyright marks (say, MediaBlasters vs Funimation) and changing the timing of the audio tracks so they all match.
The second question:
How to make an MKV play different video chapters, depending on the audio tracks?
(In Finding Dory, the aquarium signage changes to match the spoken language)
What about the same, but for regions?
(If the Blu-ray player is physically in Japan, then add a mosaic overlay during "naughty" scenes. If the player is NOT in Japan, then the raw video is played.
What about blu-ray disc that have multiple titles all the same name but they jumble the chapters so you don't know which is the right output
Are you referring to TV shows?
Hey TwoGuyzTech. Can you clarify something for me? I thought that in order to play/use the UHD functions of an UHD Blu Ray drive, you needed to be using a PC with a specific Intel CPU that supported the instruction set (Intel SGX). From what I've heard, no AMD CPU will work for grabbing 4K Blu Ray discs. Is that the case or have you found this to be false?
Dumped Blu-ray with AMD processor. That was either misinformation, or just ancient and useless info
@@Kludgedean My apologies if I did a poor job of explaining my situation. I have a non-4K Blu-ray drive and have been dumping my 1080p Blu-rays to my AMD CPU system for years. I'm asking specifically about 4K discs.
@@Stealthbat that is why you firmware flash your drive. Nothing at all to do with the CPU of your pc/Mac.
Libre firmware is the key to what is needed here
@Kludgedean are you saying that if I use a drive that's been firmware flashed that I can dump 4k discs on an AMD CPU system?
@@Stealthbat I am :) currently doing so myself by cross flashing a drive -- basically an Asus drive to an lg firmware libre firmware. I was using a 5700x at the time
Totally agree. Compressing a 4K disc can take around 50 hours -- and that's on a fairly powerful system! Not worth it. Hard drive space is cheap now.
I don't know if you can help me in the reply or make a video or do both about two different things I have questions on one what about some subtitle tool that I'm able to label different subtitles to identify which ones audio commentary or something in a different language sometimes there's multiple audio commentarys and I would like to label that stuff. Also the other thing if you could help me out with is the proper file naming with some kind of tool so Plex can see the files in its database because a lot of times it won't recognize the file to show up and Plex. If you can help me with that and or make a video that would be awesome. PS I did use filebot, but I'm looking for something that's free or doesn't have a subscription okay thank you!
If you're recompressing the file you can do this via handbrake, the audio tracks by default are folded in half and you can just hit a < looking mark on the right hand side to see the track name field. You can change it even if you're using passthrough. The subtitle tracks also have a name field to change and you can add extra tracks or change around the order or set one as default or even burn one in if you need.
If you're not recompressing then there's an MKV header editor in MKVtoolnix which just lists out all the tracks and lets you change any property you want. If you need to do this for a bunch of similar tracks at once you can write a batch script that uses mkvpropedit (MKVtoolnix is really a frontend for mkvpropedit) and I do this a lot for anime TV series processing. Kinda just take the same one and make minor edits like switching which sub track is full subtitles and which one has onscreen text translations only.
As far as the Plex stuff you just need to follow the guides they provide but if you're following exactly but your show or movie has a generic name and supplying the years and everything still gets it mismatched then there's a part in their page on naming your media that explains how to add a tag with the exact IMDB/TMDB/TVDB ID number and a few of mine have this. It also explains how to tag stuff like a single movie split across multiple files, a single file with multiple episodes (useful with stuff like cartoons where multiple episodes are presented as a single episode with only one Opening and End credits) and there's a separate page for what to do if you want to put bonus features for a show or movie. As far as renaming stuff, I honestly just used Notepad++ and PowerRename for years, and when I finally did get filebot I usually still have to use PowerRename first to get the episode numbers right
Thanks for the video. Do you have hardware and software that you'd recommend for use with Apple Silicon (e.g., M1) Macs? Cheers.
You shouldn’t have to include Chapter 1 when splitting; MKVToolNix assumes that chapter 1-x, where x is the chapter before the split prior to the next episode, is episode 1.
sweet
A little spooky! I had only been googlng this a few hours ago come to bed popped TV on and this pops up!
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Can I hire someone to do this for me? (LOL) I would throw my laptop out the window just trying, good vid. Wow you sound just like your Dad
That may be kind of iffy. This is gray area stuff so I highly doubt there are people willing to advertise services for copying movies.
Just about all.of my DVDs are copy righted so I could not put them on my PC hard frive
Have anyone a tool for MacOS? thanks a lot
Try watching the video again and listen.
Tldl: makemkv is Windows and mac os
Can this drive also rip CDs?
Every drive can go this that's 25 years old or newer. Better to set the drive with proper accurate rip database support though
you don't compress your 4k rips? how much are you spending on hard drives???
2:04 - When the Enclosure costs more than the drive...
Compressing the videos to HEVC also takes a lot of hours of re-encoding as well. Not worth it.
Super disappointed that none of my Ultra HD blue rays are able to be burned.
I really appreciate these videos! however, I'm afraid it's just pushed me further towards piracy. it's clear the makers of these drives have no intent of supporting this kind of functionality, and finding supported drives turns into a game of whack-a-mole. kind of sad because I would happily pay money for physical content if I had greater ability to use it in the format I preferred
5:08 But that's the DVD Edition 😭😭
The 4K Blu-rays were in the case 😭
9:00 that's a cd 😭
I'll take a 1080p Blu-ray over some 4K streaming POS.
Two things you fault to tell
People that 1. You can not rip Dolby vision with makemkv which is essentially for 4k movies. 2. You can only playback Dolby vision rips on a nvidia shield as windows with something like Kodi does not support playback of Dolby vision.
Wrong on both accounts.
13:42
At that point why waste electricity and time when you can just torrent it, they have it all figured out what's the best compression, might as well.
Exactly
How much did UGREEN pay you for the review? I hear they bought all the tech RUclipsrs to "review" their NAS!
What's the point of spending all that money on 4K titles to then rip the disc and disgard it? Just play the thing like it was intended.
Lots of reasons. Once it's on the NAS, it can be accessed from any room in the house. Also, if you set up a Plex server and give it access remotely, you can access your library anywhere in the world on your mobile devices. It's like having your own personal Netflix. I'm also going to give my friend in another city access to my Plex and we can use the "Watch together" feature. So we can watch Breaking Bad and The Sopranos at the same time.
I'm still trying to proactively understand this as well. A shelf of 40 4k Blu-rays will take up so much less space than a server/hard drive storage area.
@@The1Music2MyEarsperhaps the pictures of NAS devices online are deceiving, but my 8-bay NAS is much smaller than 40 Blu-ray cases stacked against each other. And I'm only using 3 of the 8 bays currently. A 4-bay NAS would be nearly half the size of the 8-bay. Having said that, it's not about the space (because I still have the Blu-rays I ripped. It doesn't really decrease storage space, I outlined the advantages in my previous response. Still, NAS + hard drives + Gigibit ethernet infrastructure aren't cheap and definitely aren't for everyone.
@@ckenisell Got it. What's the total storage space you have?
@@The1Music2MyEars Three 20 TB drives. Since one of the three is saved for redundancy, that gives me just under 40 TB of space. I have ripped my entire library of about 400 movie titles and about 8 full TV series runs (a combination of HD BDs, 3D BDs and 4K BDs) and have used about 75% to 80% of the storage. I am also going to use Synology Photos and Synology Drive apps to replace Google Photos and Google Drive. Once it gets closer to 90-95%, just buy another 20TB drive, slide it in and the storage expands automatically. If one drive fails, I don't lose any data. Replace the drive and I am back to having the redundancy failsafe. If two drives fail at once, I lose everything.
I have a recommendation for your next video down the line sometime.. 😉 To show how to properly have Plex/Jellyfin/Emby setup/configured in order to playback the mkv rip as the director intended. I mean how to send the audio track directly to the receiver for decoding and have the TV/PC/media streamer play the movie in the correct frame rate. It took me a long time to figure it out and at the end when I thought I had it, I realized that apparently I have to change the refresh rate on my PC manually to 24Hz, which then sets that on my projector. All and all it’s a pain in the ass as Plex never remembers these settings and it has to be changed manually every time when I sit down to watch something from my Plex library. So I invested $250 in a dedicated media streamer - Zidoo Z9X pro and completely stopped using and removed Plex, as Zidoo plays all video files and remembers to send audio direct to the receiver and matches the frame rates as well with ease! Also be sure to mention the Apple TV and no atmos playback in the Plex app or Infuse, I stopped using it as well. Zidoo to the rescue! It costs only $50 more than the Nvidia shield but is not as outdated - the reason I didn’t and never got to own a shield. 🤷♂️ Otherwise what good is a Blu-Ray rip if we can’t watch it as the Blu-Ray player would play it back on any system ... 🤔 Thx for your videos!!
Thank you very much for the comment! This is largely the reason why we started using a Zidoo player in our theater as well. The SHIELD also sends the original Dolby ATMOS track to our processor through the Plex and Jellyfin apps but it's really nice not having to rely on an extra server-side component to send the movies over the network as with the Zidoo. We might dive into this topic deeper in another video!
I absolutely love my Zidoo Z9X Pro. I just spent the last 6 weeks ripping my entire Blu-ray library (3D, 4K, & HD) to my new Synology NAS and used the Zidoo to customize my posters, fanart (backgrounds), clearlogos, theme music, collections, poster labels, etc. The Zidoo supports ISOs, MKV, 3D MVC, native frame rates, resolutions, HDR, Atmos, DTS-X, pretty much everything.
Today, I learned that you can side-load Plex onto the Zidoo (It's called ZidooPlexMod). It was really cool setting it up and having it use the Zidoo player to play back the video. This means that it supports all of the Zidoo playback functionality. It's funny, because I started watching a movie using Plex, stopped the movie, went into Zidoo's Home Theater 4.0 app and it saved my progress from Plex. It was in my Recent category and everything. Started playing the movie and it started from where Plex stopped. Pretty cool.
How about a tutorial for when the disk won't rip
What would be the optimal system and not lose sound and picture quality. I have over 2k movies and growing
Samsung pm 890 industrial ssd, windows 11, i5 12400
Dang, I have to wait a little for the beta code to update before I can continue with the video 🥲