Good thread on Wirlpool about BD ripping, plus Clown_BD description also check out ToNMT UI and its update for ripping out a ts.
Some info on BD the NMT Formus about 1080p using Handbrake and 720p using Handbrake and some good info on the Handbrake Forum. and another guide on Blu-Ray ripping.
The PCH doesnt like more than 5 Reference Frames for DVD and 4 for BD, and only 3 B-Frames (not sure if this is for both DVD / BD) as per this post and how to calculate it here based on the x264 doco. While this good encoding guide, suggest that the pch can handle Pyramidal B-Frames.
I also found this guide on the different x264 options and what they can be used for, and some that are considered more up to date here and here.
Found another good guide here, i’ve found ripping subs is an issue, so i thought i outline my process below
- Rip with ClownBD or ToNMT or RipBot264 (not sure which is better, i think ClownBD as it extracts all components) Convert and DTS/Core to AC3-448 due to problems with Audio.
- use SubRip to OCR the Forced subs, save as .srt
- use BDSup2Sub to save the Forced sub’s to idx/sub (vobsub). Looks like there is a bug in the PCH, and you need to convert the subtitles down to a smaller size (PAL), ( Probably worth keeping all sup/idx/sub/srt files)
- Use Chapter Grabber to load the Chapters from the ClownBD extract and rename them then save them to xml.
- Convert M2ts to MKV using Handbrake
- Use MKVMerge-GUI to add in the Subs and Chapters and merge into one mkv. (Some details on the Wiki)
- If you want to Backup to DVD the original BLueRay, then use tsMuxeR-GUI and Split when re-muxing from the de-muxed sources.
