How to: Convert Blu-ray Discs for Audio File Playback (Atmos supported)

[bookofsaturdays]

no; not in this case we have:

-a folder that contains files of a copied Atmos blu ray
-a blu ray player capable or playing MKV files and Atmos via USB

I’m assuming what you have is a BDMV folder, in which case you can use MakeMKV to open the index file that is found in the BDMV folder and rip it as you would a normal Blu-Ray.

From there you’d need to select the right stream and make sure the Dolby TrueHD 7.1 is checked and whatever other audio format you may want, and then what you get is an MKV file which you can play over USB on your Blu-Ray player.

I hope I explained in a somewhat coherent way, any others feel free to join in and correct me if I’m wrong!

 

[quadrifonico]

I’m assuming what you have is a BDMV folder, in which case you can use MakeMKV to open the index file that is found in the BDMV folder and rip it as you would a normal Blu-Ray.

From there you’d need to select the right stream and make sure the Dolby TrueHD 7.1 is checked and whatever other audio format you may want, and then what you get is an MKV file which you can play over USB on your Blu-Ray player.

I hope I explained in a somewhat coherent way, any others feel free to join in and correct me if I’m wrong!

thanks, lemme give a try

 

[letting1]

I've seen a few similar posts in this thread about problems with ripping some Blu-ray discs, so I hope this is the right place to bring up my issue.

I bought a Blu-Ray from a seller in the Netherlands through Discogs. This disc appears to be near mint. Here's the disc.

My intent was to use MakeMKV to rip this disc and add the files to Kodi, using @HomerJAU's excellent guide and tools. The problem is the disc won't load. It won't play with my Panasonic Blu-Ray player. I'm not too surprised about that because I think it's a region issue although there is no indication on the disc that it is "regionalized". But it won't open with MakeMKV and my Blu-Ray drive in my PC, either. When I load the disc in the drive, it spins it up, thinks about it for a bit and then says "No disc inserted".

The drive details are in the screenshot above under Drive Information. MakeMKV version is on the screenshot, too, and I have the current key loaded to enable Blu-Ray. The drive is not a fancy one or even very new but it works fine with MakeMKV to backup my other Blu-Ray discs. I did the Mumford and Sons disc just before doing this post.

I was under the impression from reading various sources that internal Blu-Ray drives in PC's were not "regionalized". Am I wrong on that? If so, and if there is a region conflict, are there internal drives that are region free? Or is this just a bad disc?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

 

[madscot]

I've seen a few similar posts in this thread about problems with ripping some Blu-ray discs, so I hope this is the right place to bring up my issue.

I bought a Blu-Ray from a seller in the Netherlands through Discogs. This disc appears to be near mint. Here's the disc.

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My intent was to use MakeMKV to rip this disc and add the files to Kodi, using @HomerJAU's excellent guide and tools. The problem is the disc won't load. It won't play with my Panasonic Blu-Ray player. I'm not too surprised about that because I think it's a region issue although there is no indication on the disc that it is "regionalized". But it won't open with MakeMKV and my Blu-Ray drive in my PC, either. When I load the disc in the drive, it spins it up, thinks about it for a bit and then says "No disc inserted".

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The drive details are in the screenshot above under Drive Information. MakeMKV version is on the screenshot, too, and I have the current key loaded to enable Blu-Ray. The drive is not a fancy one or even very new but it works fine with MakeMKV to backup my other Blu-Ray discs. I did the Mumford and Sons disc just before doing this post.

I was under the impression from reading various sources that internal Blu-Ray drives in PC's were not "regionalized". Am I wrong on that? If so, and if there is a region conflict, are there internal drives that are region free? Or is this just a bad disc?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

Drives are regionalised, you can go into the settings and change the region but you can only do that 2 or 3 times and it will lock permanently so need to be careful

 

[quadrifonico]

I've seen a few similar posts in this thread about problems with ripping some Blu-ray discs, so I hope this is the right place to bring up my issue.

I bought a Blu-Ray from a seller in the Netherlands through Discogs. This disc appears to be near mint. Here's the disc.

View attachment 113962

My intent was to use MakeMKV to rip this disc and add the files to Kodi, using @HomerJAU's excellent guide and tools. The problem is the disc won't load. It won't play with my Panasonic Blu-Ray player. I'm not too surprised about that because I think it's a region issue although there is no indication on the disc that it is "regionalized". But it won't open with MakeMKV and my Blu-Ray drive in my PC, either. When I load the disc in the drive, it spins it up, thinks about it for a bit and then says "No disc inserted".

View attachment 113967

The drive details are in the screenshot above under Drive Information. MakeMKV version is on the screenshot, too, and I have the current key loaded to enable Blu-Ray. The drive is not a fancy one or even very new but it works fine with MakeMKV to backup my other Blu-Ray discs. I did the Mumford and Sons disc just before doing this post.

I was under the impression from reading various sources that internal Blu-Ray drives in PC's were not "regionalized". Am I wrong on that? If so, and if there is a region conflict, are there internal drives that are region free? Or is this just a bad disc?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

hi, in your case sounds more like a damaged / faulty disc, happened to me a few times

 

[quadrifonico]

hi, in your case sounds more like a damaged / faulty disc, happened to me a few times

certain discs "rot" after years ,not of use i mean, but by themselves...usually they look kinda opaque instead of reflective

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

I've seen a few similar posts in this thread about problems with ripping some Blu-ray discs, so I hope this is the right place to bring up my issue.

I bought a Blu-Ray from a seller in the Netherlands through Discogs. This disc appears to be near mint. Here's the disc.

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Can 'Windows Explorer' see the disc?

 

[HomerJAU]

Drives are regionalised, you can go into the settings and change the region but you can only do that 2 or 3 times and it will lock permanently so need to be careful

This is not true when using MakeMKV. MakeMKV loads its on driver and ALL discs and supported drives become region free and usable by MakeMKV.

When MakeMKV rips the disc removes the disc encryption and region locking in the files it creates on your computers file system, hard disc or SSD etc. Thise files are full open to play, convert, etc.

Both the BD drive and the disc may not be the issue here. ( unless Faulty or unsupported drive or Faulty disc)

 

[HomerJAU]

hi, in your case sounds more like a damaged / faulty disc, happened to me a few times

That is a common problem, A reason to rip all your BDs immediately.

 

[HomerJAU]

I've seen a few similar posts in this thread about problems with ripping some Blu-ray discs, so I hope this is the right place to bring up my issue.

I bought a Blu-Ray from a seller in the Netherlands through Discogs. This disc appears to be near mint. Here's the disc.

View attachment 113962

My intent was to use MakeMKV to rip this disc and add the files to Kodi, using @HomerJAU's excellent guide and tools. The problem is the disc won't load. It won't play with my Panasonic Blu-Ray player. I'm not too surprised about that because I think it's a region issue although there is no indication on the disc that it is "regionalized". But it won't open with MakeMKV and my Blu-Ray drive in my PC, either. When I load the disc in the drive, it spins it up, thinks about it for a bit and then says "No disc inserted".

View attachment 113967

The drive details are in the screenshot above under Drive Information. MakeMKV version is on the screenshot, too, and I have the current key loaded to enable Blu-Ray. The drive is not a fancy one or even very new but it works fine with MakeMKV to backup my other Blu-Ray discs. I did the Mumford and Sons disc just before doing this post.

I was under the impression from reading various sources that internal Blu-Ray drives in PC's were not "regionalized". Am I wrong on that? If so, and if there is a region conflict, are there internal drives that are region free? Or is this just a bad disc?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts.

The screen shot shows on the right info on the driver that allows unfettered access your BD drive:
LibreDrive (the French ‘Libre’). In that section it reports your drive is not supported. You probably have a hardware problem too. Tell me about the drive?

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

hi, in your case sounds more like a damaged / faulty disc, happened to me a few times

That is a common problem, A reason to rip all your BDs immediately.

Disc rot certainly can be a problem

 

[HomerJAU]

Because the disc won’t play in your BD Player, the disc is probably damaged, disc rot.

 

[quadrifonico]

yes as i said earlier to me it's a damaged disc

 

[letting1]

Thanks for all your replies. Here are mine:

Can 'Windows Explorer' see the disc?

No, Win Explorer does not see the disc.

Drives are regionalised, you can go into the settings and change the region but you can only do that 2 or 3 times and it will lock permanently so need to be careful

Yes, I can see in the properties of the drive that the DVD region can be changed, but there is nothing for Blu-Ray region in properties. And as @HomerJAU said, MakeMKV uses it's own driver.

The screen shot shows on the right info on the driver that allows unfettered access your BD drive:
LibreDrive (the French ‘Libre’). In that section it reports your drive is not supported. You probably have a hardware problem too. Tell me about the drive?

The drive is an LG Super Multi Blue BD Rewriter model WH12LS30. Manufactured Jan. 2011 (old). It's outside of the PC in its own case with it's own power supply connected to the PC via USB 3.0 Here's a link to the drive manual:

Manual

I have used MakeMKV with this drive on several Blu-ray Concert discs and it's worked ok. Slow, but it gets done. I have noticed that LibreDrive info but I think it's always said that. Here's a screenshot of a successful rip I did today:

Thanks!

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

No, Win Explorer does not see the disc.

Yes, I can see in the properties of the drive that the DVD region can be changed, but there is nothing for Blu-Ray region in properties. And as @HomerJAU said, MakeMKV uses it's own driver.

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This makes no sense. If MakeMKV can see the Blu-ray disc, Windows Explorer should be able to see it too!

 

[letting1]

This makes no sense. If MakeMKV can see the Blu-ray disc, Windows Explorer should be able to see it too!

Yeah, but MakeMKV can't see it. Look at the second screenshot in my original post. No disc.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

Yeah, but MakeMKV can't see it. Look at the second screenshot in my original post. No disc.

I'm confused... Why did you post this image: -

 

[letting1]

I'm confused... Why did you post this image: -

That image was posted in #114 in reply to @HomerJAU to show that the drive works on other BD's, ie. Mumford and Sons. In my original post #103, I showed the MakeMKV screenshot when I have the Keane disc in the drive and it says No Disc. The drive can't see it and Windows Explorer can't see it.

 

[HomerJAU]

Your PC/drive is probably blocking the LibreDrive driver from loading.

Also, please use the very latest MakeMKV version. So do that now please, then:

Try turning your PC off, wait 30 sec, restart.

Now run MakeMKV BEFORE any BD is inserted in the drive,

AFTER MakeMKV is running, load the disc


THX

 

[letting1]

Thanks, @HomerJAU. I believe I have the very latest MakeMKV version 1.17.9. Should I reload it?

Also, "AFTER MakeMKV is running," do you want me to load the Keane disc (the one that wouldn't load) or the Mumford and Son's disc (the one that loads but the driver info is still not right)?