rip blu-ray, shrink, burn to dvd?

4743hudsonj

anybody got the best combo for doing this, ive read around, looked at a few programs and some look stupidly complicated and others dont work

so have you got programs that are relitivly simple to use and work for

Reading and ripping the bluray disc to my hdd

Then shrinking the file to dvd size

Then to rip to dvd (if the above results in .vob etc then i shall just use imgburn)

any recommendations, i cant really be bothered to rip audio streams and video stream separately and have to calculate what bitrates i want in order for them to fit just to converts a home movie into dvd format.

4743hudsonj

bump anyone?

Marty_J

It's probably easier to just buy it on DVD for a few pounds on eBay.

kwikbreaks

You'll need to find something capable or ripping blueray to disk and I can't help with that.

Once extracted ConvertXtoDVD is capable of making a DVD which will play in a standard DVD player from most video files. You'll obviously lose quality though so the exercise seems a bit pointless.

4743hudsonj

i probably poorley explained

im converting some hd footage off a camera(home videos etc) that is burnt to bluray (the only copy of said videos) and a relative wants copys of some and only has a dvd player, so i need to rip the files of the bluray downsize it to the correct size preferably in vob and then ill use imgburn to burn the .vob's onto a blank dvd

either that or an all in one program

so nothing illegal, just something ive never done before

-TangleFoot-

DVD Flick?

4743hudsonj

does it rip blu-ray and convert it to vob?

-TangleFoot-

I don't know. What kind of files are on the disc?

4743hudsonj

dont know, ill have a look but it can only be a choice of mpeg-2, vc-1 and m-peg 4 avc surely so isnt there one that rips all three and another to convert ito whatever needed

i assume the mpeg-2 codecs need merely shrinking and theyre set to go on dvd?

-TangleFoot-

4743hudsonj wrote: »

i assume the mpeg-2 codecs need merely shrinking and theyre set to go on dvd?

Not exactly - take a look at the Wikipedia articles on DVD-Video and MPEG-2 for starters!

Now, what exactly did you record the video with?

Blackjack_Davy

As far as I know there are no all-in-one backup solutions such as ConvertXtoDVD available for blu-ray (yet).

I've converted mine to DVD but it's something of an arcane art involving a suite of separate programs including indexers, frameservers, video and audio transcoders, muxers...

definately not something for beginners.