Ripping blu-ray to MKV with DVDFab

[90312]

Yeah it will be lossless and a very large file.

[roghelt]

This one will give you what you want:

If I read your posting cioorrectly, you want to be able to stream the MKV files to your Oppo Blu-ray player. I suspect that you will be using the DLNA feature of the player in order to be able to do that.

That will be an issue. It seems that the DLNA spec requires that the H.264 video be High Level 4.0. Blu-ray videos are High Level 4.1 and will not play via DLNA. The HL4.0 spec means that in many cases the bitrate will be too high. Recoding to a lower bitrate @ High Level 4.0 will be a must. Not even sure if loseless audio will work. I've been trying to find the DLNA spec, but the official website is lacking in specification info. I've discovered the issues via my Samsung BR player.

Also, the player might not accept MKV wrapped files via DLNA either. Mine will happily play HL4.1 MKV files via a USB connected device, but will not play HL4.0/4.1 MKV files via DLNA, only HL4.0 MP4 files.

In a nutshell, the DLNA spec appears to be pretty damn tight. I do not expect you to be able to do what you want via DLNA.

First: thank you, 90312 -- that's EXACTLY what I was looking for! I assume the mkv.passthrough profile will give me "lossless" MKVs of my blu-ray movies.

Second: Sorry, Mr. Video, but my Oppo BDP-105 does DLNA beautifully! I've been trying out two different media servers (as well as plain vanilla SMB), and all allow me to stream to the 105 -- as well as use the Oppo as a renderer. I use an Android app that provides the interface when my home theater TV isn't on.

I have hundreds of hi-res and lossless flacs that stream flawlessly to my 105 that's actually a universal network player. And, though I haven't ripped any of my BD movies to MKV yet, there are countless posts on Oppo's and other forums that discuss how well it does DLNA blu-ray MKVs. I'm running Windows XP-SP3, two 4-TB NAS and running an ethernet connection to the 105. I'll give you an update once I do a few conversions and report back on the quality of the streams. BTW, check out the Oppo website, for starters, to see what this 'beast' is capable of....

[MrVideo]

I've searched DVDFab site to see if I can create 1:1 bit-perfect lossless MKVs of my BD movies -- including the audio tracks.

If I read your posting cioorrectly, you want to be able to stream the MKV files to your Oppo Blu-ray player. I suspect that you will be using the DLNA feature of the player in order to be able to do that.

That will be an issue. It seems that the DLNA spec requires that the H.264 video be High Level 4.0. Blu-ray videos are High Level 4.1 and will not play via DLNA. The HL4.0 spec means that in many cases the bitrate will be too high. Recoding to a lower bitrate @ High Level 4.0 will be a must. Not even sure if loseless audio will work. I've been trying to find the DLNA spec, but the official website is lacking in specification info. I've discovered the issues via my Samsung BR player.

Also, the player might not accept MKV wrapped files via DLNA either. Mine will happily play HL4.1 MKV files via a USB connected device, but will not play HL4.0/4.1 MKV files via DLNA, only HL4.0 MP4 files.

In a nutshell, the DLNA spec appears to be pretty damn tight. I do not expect you to be able to do what you want via DLNA.

[90312]

This one will give you what you want:

[Jonatan]

Try bd ripper you have a 30 day trial
What bd player did you buy may be infected with cinavia
Btw Go read forum rules do not discuss competitor software

[roghelt]

I finally broke down and bought a blu-ray player and a bunch of BD movies...welcome to 2013

I've set up my external HDDs with plenty of storage and successfully networked streaming music to my Oppo player. I'd like to watch some of my blu-ray movies in a lossless format without the shiny discs, but of course the player won't stream .iso. So the next best thing would be MKV -- I'm only interested in the main feature movie.

I've searched DVDFab site to see if I can create 1:1 bit-perfect lossless MKVs of my BD movies -- including the audio tracks. Can anyone point this noobie in the right direction here -- and also let me know if it's possible to do this with DVDFab? I recently downloaded the latest trial version and think it's terrific for backing up my blu-rays -- but really interested in the MKV abilities.

It's nice to be aboard here! As a long time user (I confess) of xxxxxx & ImgBurn, they've worked really well for me in in backing up my standard DVDs, but DVDFab has so many more features for blu-ray! Looking forward to purchasing it in the near future - and eliminating the watermarked backups.