HELP! Backing up BLU RAY to USB stick..!

DEBTMONKEY1A

Hello all.

My G/F has bought all three Take That concerts on BLU RAY. I also have some superb Depeche Mode concerts on BLU RAY.

W'ere wanting to back them up to a USB stick (we don't have a BLU RAY burner) if we go away for a few days (plug to laptop/friends HD tv/blu-ray player).

I've recently viewed some fantastic quality 'H264' (??!) rips-all ripped from full BLU RAY to around 2 to 2.5 GB. I have to say that on my full HD TV the quality was crystal clear & superb (sure if viewed side by side with BLU RAY I'd probably notice some difference). There were '2 pass encodes' (??!!).

I'm good with DVD authoring/compression/ripping, etc but don't have a clue how to rip BLU RAY & encode to this 'H264' standard & compress? Some of the top quality rips I've seen are MP4, some are MKV format.

These are the programmes I have....(I think the DVDFAB 8.0.9.8 has blu ray rip on it).

Imgburn, ripit4me,dvd decrypter, divx to dvd, any video converter, avi 2 dvd, dvd flick, dvd rebuilder..

Any ideas on how to proceed?

fwor

Your best bet is probably to put "blu ray ripping" into Google and then follow one of the how-to's, like this one:

http://gizmodo.com/5161848/how-to-rip-blu+ray-discs

It's a bit old now, but has links to good explanations about codecs and containers.

Looks like it's a slow and convoluted process, but I'm not surprised. One of the design objectives for blu ray was probably that it should be difficult to copy to hard disk...

DEBTMONKEY1A

Thanks fwor....but think I've answered my own question now-after looking through the link you sent. I don't have a BLU RAY drive-so my computer will not 'read' the disk. Ah well.....I'll just have to hope that the BLU RAY'S we own appear online in h264....