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Check out the Ultimate UHD Drives Guide on the MakeMKV Forum. Any of the non-external ones will likely work fine with a cheap USB-SATA adapter.
You might need to flash the drive you get with an older (or LibreDrive-patched). Some adapters don't allow the drives to be flashed. However this only needs to be done once, so opening your case and plugging in the drive for a few minutes shouldn't be a big deal.
Don't forget you will need MakeMKV to do the actual ripping. It's $50, but Mike puts a free beta key on the forum every few months. Definitely support him if you can.
MakeMKV (if this is the programm you use) gives me the following information:
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Name: BW-16D1HT Revision: 3.02
LibreDrive Information Status: Enabled Drive platform: MT1959 Firmware type: Original (unpatched) Firmware version: 3.02 DVD all regions: Yes BD raw data read: Yes BD raw metadata read: Yes Unrestricted read speed: Possible, not yet enabled
The Firmware Version is important i think the new versions won't read UHD disks anymore. I also found a link from the MakeMKV Forum in which they provided help for finding Firmware flash. Unfortunally i can't tell if this is the one you might seek because i bought mine from an ebayer which already flashed it for his own purpose. But nevertheless i hiope it will help you: https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=17865
Put the dvd in your drive and use MakeMKV to extract all the files.
On and in future, never use something as high as CRF 4 for DVDs, i have no clue how you get a 600mb file from that, but in reality, CRF 4 should output bigger than the original file. Oh and please pass through AC3, the bit rate is already low enough.
DVD ripping is free though. Everything else (even UHD discs) is free while in beta, but it's been in beta more than a decade. Even if you want to support the developer, it's not even available to purchase right now, with makemkv.com/buy just stating that you can't buy it right now and to use the beta key.
Everything you need can be found here
Scroll down to the 8th post and download that MediaFire file (Modified) ASUS ODD FW Changer + UHD Friendly Firmwares)
In there is a flasher and all the firmwares you will need.
Let me know if you need more help.
yeah I have a wh14ns40, and I downgraded the firmware to 1.02 using the zip pack from the makemkv forum post on "super hacker method" (lol), and ripped my first 4K movie a few days ago. worked great.
Downloaded the zip file linked on the third post of this forum thread at their forums:
https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=18873
was actually easier than I anticipated.
I've only recently looked into remuxing BDMV's so I'm not too knowledgeable on this but have you looked into makemkv?
You can set a "minimum duration to be considered" parameter for makemkv and it'll skip doing anything with any files below that. Say the copyright notice is 22 seconds (as was, in my case). You set the minimum duration to 30 seconds or more and it'll entirely skip processing the 00003.m2ts file
Yeah, fair point, but I didn’t say it would be the easiest. Still, OP can use the TV they have. Except, yes you need a blu ray drive that reads 4k discs. You can rip them with https://makemkv.com. It’s just an option if you’re PC inclined.
BW16D1HT all the way I have these in stock all the time flashed to LibreDrive and 4K UHD compatibility, thoroughly tested and guaranteed to work right out of the box.
The bitrate on iTunes is not going to stack up to a UHD.
Also, it's incredibly easy to flash the firmware on that Asus. Just use the utility here. Takes like 10 seconds with no fancy procedures.
I have one. If you are going to rip BD's poke around this thread first then join the forum for any other questions. https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=19928
And r/makemkv will help you find/figure things out if you don't know yet.
I have this drive, if you hold firmware it can work out of the box, but otherwise you'll need to downgrade.
https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=18873
second post, google drive link at bottom. I've ripped several 4k movies with it.
I think I got this drive for around $36 on a black friday a year or two ago. But hadn't noticed any big sales lately so this is a decent price.
if you have a case that still has 5.25" bays lol
Most DVD/BD discs have copy protection built-in to the media, it takes something like RedFoxto decode them. I think "Region 0" label discs just don't have the protection built-in. Not sure if MAKEMKV has a decrypter built in or not.
Also, with handbrake, for the first testing pass set the level to high or "very fast" -- it'll look horrible, but only take a few minutes to process. Also limit it to the first chapter or so; that'll help time as well. The suggested settings on handbrake are reasonable, BTW.
I'm 2 months late but basically if you have a disk drive, you can use a program called MakeMKV to rip an exactly copy of what is on the DVD/Bluray in an mkv container. What our fella over here did was take the audio straight from the newly ripped dvd/bluray file and upload it to a file sharing site
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I recently purchased a CX and had been seeing similar issues with dual track profile 7 DV MP4s like the one in the OP screenshot - from https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18602&start=3510#p98654, it looks like the DV compatibility has been "reduced" on the CX at some point.
The CX definitely can still play DV files through it's internal Plex app, but it seems to be very specific about the formats it'll accept - https://4kmedia.org/lg-amaze-dolby-vision-uhd-4k-demo/ works for me for example, but that's a single track TS file.
>I haven’t seen a UHD disc that isn’t DV profile 7 yet
Well if you have spent time over on the makeMKV forums you will known UHD Rips can be REMUXed into ATV 4K compatible - Profile 5:
https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18602&start=2865#p95247
But yes if you need THD/Atmos then the Apple TV 4K simply will not do the job.
on the makeMKV forums somebody says that it is possible...probably better to look ask there..
No PC software supports DoVi MKV playback right now. I would read through this thread, and this post in particular. To quote: > > This has been discussed ad nauseum but there's a lot of things that are required to make Dolby Vision playback work. > > 0) You need a decoder. We may be able to finagle that on a PC in some of the latest GPU drivers out there. Maybe
> 0) It's likely something like LAV Video would be needed to wrap a driver to expose it
> 0) You need a splitter that understands the MKV format. Assumably that'd be LAV Splitter
> 0) Next you need a renderer that can output the decoded, split video. This also needs to understand DV. > > Once some of this makes its way to ffmpeg, maybe Nevcariel (author of LAV Filters) will take on the decoder and splitter. There's an almost 0% chance that madshi will take on the rendering in madvr so that's out. Even if he did, he's busy and dynamic tone mapping isn't even finished for HDR. You'd be looking at years not months assuming he actually said yes, which, as mentioned, is very unlikely. Hence you'd need someone to add it to one of the EVR renderers. I've not looked into those lately so I've no idea if they're active or not. > > All this is to reenforce what I said before, PC playback of DV isn't happening any time soon.
So basically your only option right now for DoVi MKV playback is Plex for Android (see this post). And that only happened 11 days ago.
Here's the link for more info about uhd drives and ripping: https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19634 But important note, you can make any internal drive external using a usb enclosure.
Plex only looks at the drive you point it to. If you have a movie on a pc that plex is not looking at then there's no point in keeping it there. So no you don't need the movie in your pc when you move it to your plex server drive.
You can only rip the movie, audio and subtitles. Plex handles selecting which subtitles or audio track you want to use to watch.
No Plex App on WebOS will result in Plex server transcode HD audio into lossy DD audio and output that.
There is NO HD audio App support on any Smart TV, no matter what App you use on it and does not matter if it is eARC TV or not:
https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18602&start=3105#p96822
> I read that ripping/playing Dolby Vision content is still problematic. Is that correct?
https://www.reddit.com/r/PleX/comments/haj9n7/spent_the_last_month_ripping_every_dolby_vision/
https://makemkv.com . Supports basically all contents of the disc except dolby vision, which will be added fairly soon. There’s no recompressing. It just rips what’s on the disc. H265 is well compressed already.
You have your choice between a modified BDXL blu ray drive running firmware to support 4K uhd Blu Ray backup (ripping) or an honest to goodness UHD Blu Ray drive also firmware flashed for 4K disc ripping that will Play Back 4K discs from the drive itself.
https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18602
There are some guides on the internet on how to achieve this. Though I'm not up to date on how this has been working recently. It seems that last year you could rip it into a mp4 that had the Dolby Vision stream, but the audio needed to be only AC3.
I don't know if recent developments have made it possible to have a file that holds both Dolby Vision AND Dolby Atmos and can be played by Plex.
The 2019 Shield as a device has no problem playing back Dolby Vision and Dolby Atmos, you just need to find the right way to make those files out of the original Blu-Ray and a player that can serve them to the Shield.
I haven't purchased a DVD in years, since everything is streaming now. But I have a huge collection of old DVDs, and I ripped them to MKV files, put them on my file server, and built a Kodi library that way.
I ripped the disks using DVD Decrypt, and then converted them to MKV files with MakeMKV. There are other tools like HandBrake, but I found that DVD Decrypt and MakeMKV worked best for me. They can be run from command line, so I wrote scripts to rip them, rename them, and move them to the file server.
By default, all you're going to rip are the episodes. For disks which have bonus features, I sometimes had to make an effort and decision whether or not to include those. But having the episodes all in MKV makes binge watching a lot easier.
https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=18933
Look at EDIT (15.02.2020):
I believe the link under that edit has the flasher and all available firmware. I didn't check for your model but I recently used it for another Asus drive and it had what I needed.
TS container seems to support Dolby Atmos. Some HDR sample videos I downloaded from LG are in TS containers; so I can verify that the built in player supports TS containers. From what I've read, TS seems to support Dolby Vision as well.
While there aren't that many tools available for TS compared to MKV or MP4, it could be your best bet.
Where are you even trying to buy it from? I don't see anywhere on their site to buy - just a place to download, and it still says "beta" all over their site.
Here is the forum post with the current beta key, good until the end of March 2020:
In regards to optical drives that will rip anything (cd, dvd, blu-Ray, 4K UHD Blu-ray) I sell pre-configured (or pre-flashed) drives for folks who don’t want to mess with flashing themselves. Those people do exist I’ve met 1700 of them so far. I don’t fault anyone for using bit torrent or flashing a drive themselves but if you’re not into either and want a drive you can plug in and start ripping your discs with my email and phone number are here along with 18 pages of positive feedback.
https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=17829
Thank you.
Pioneer drives are still not supported at this time.
Non-Bulky LG slim drives ARE now supported by MakeMKV. They are quite fast and when used in the Vantec slim drive case are USB bus powered and perfect for laptop users.
Now for a shameless plug:
https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=17829
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Thank you!
https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18602
Its not fully cracked, however once the players can catch up MKV can still support this, its a matter of correctly interpreting the video streams. For now, MP4 is functional, though you have to mux back in the lossless audio.
What you need is an UHD Blu-ray remux. It's usually 60-80GB and DV remuxes have two video tracks (you can check with mkvtoolnix or VLC).
This website lists most DV releases: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showthread.php?t=276448
Then you download Dolby's mp4muxer and mux a DV capable mp4.
https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=18602&sid=c97de6b6be05010de33732bc09161c87
I bought this at Best Buy a few years ago: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/lg-8x-external-usb-2-0-blu-ray-disc-double-layer-dvdrw-cd-rw-disc-rewriter-black/9243009.p?skuId=9243009. The good news is that someone recently came up with a modified firmware to make it UHD Friendly. I can confirm that I got mine to work, but your mileage may vary as it is a modified firmware that you would have to flash yourself. https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=18933&hilit=Lg+bp50nb40 You can see an edit in the first post from September where they added support for UHD disks.
First, you need a Windows computer and a Blu-ray drive.
Then, acquire the latest version of the MakeMKV program here: https://makemkv.com (free while in "beta", which has been for like a decade now).
Put the blu-ray disk in, run MakeMKV, push the button, and some time later a MKV file will appear in your target folder that has the movie. You can then copy that file to any of your devices and watch the movie, and put the Blu-ray disk back on your shelf.
Note that you must own the blu-ray and not give it away or sell it, nor give away the MKV file created. That would be piracy, and illegal. But if you keep it all for personal use, it should not be a problem.
Go check out the makemkv.com forums. This post is probably the best place to start: https://www.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=19634
Yes, you absolutely can. Just find a model with "MK firmware" available, buy it, and flash it. Then stuff it in a USB3 enclosure and rip away. Not sure about flashing the drive from the enclosure, so you'll have to research to find a housing that allows that. Learn: https://makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=19113
> However some discs require unique support due to obfuscation methods etc.
Are you aware of others methods in addition to Lionsgate's playlist-obfuscation?