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I agree with Jake. there is a bundle of products that you can buy from http://www.sylsoft.com
they are the champs right now. AnyDVD will run in the background and remove any and all copy protection. in fact if you have any old pc equipment that isn't HDCP compliant AnyDVD allows you to watch BluRay video and not have to worry about HDCP.Please note that you will need a Blu Ray player in your PC and i recommend Cyberlinks Power DVD Ultra Ver.8. Next you can use Clone DVD2 to copy your movie. easiest software on the market and you can decide if you want compression or not. I agree with you, Hard Drive space is cheap. If you want they also have Clone CD to copy any CD on the market. Mobile DVD will copy anything to almost any mobile device on the planet..

if you want to rip Bluray to disk or hard drive i recommend this
Download link: http://www.sendspace.com/file/dedvp7
it will be very easy if you already have anydvdHD running in the background so you don't have to look for the CPS key to decrypt .m2ts files.

there you have it.

good luck

Anyone tried to rip BR to HDD then burn a STD def version from that?

Family Man, are you sure the first link you posted is correct? It links to a sports tech page.

Posted A long winded ramble in [The Water Cooler]forum about ripping DVDs to keep the 5.1 sound track when you stream to the PS3 using TVersity.

Your tools above may be easier but I haven't tried them yet.

Spoiler you are correct. the address is http://www.slysoft.com

sorry, I spelled it wrong.

I downloaded this nifty program after reading tons of people gushing over it's genius on the playstation.com message boards, but alas, it too, I cannot figure out.

1) How the hell do you rip a dvd into an mkv file? Supposedly with this guy's media server, streaming vids to PS3 is a simple, fast process of streaming an uncompressed mkv file. But what's that?

I've found that after decrypting a dvd with DVD Decrypter, that media server will allow me to play back the source VOB file, but only in 2-channel. Could this 2-channel only issue be the media server issue, or am I Decrypting improperly?

This ->.<- close to saying the hell with a dvd jukebox and going back to the old-school route of loading the damn discs into the machine.

Grrr...

Yeah, I'm not going to go jukebox until it's a lot simpler than it is.

Ack, I have never typed so much since this topic came up. Luckily, I am fast (but not accurate.)

If you download the doc file I have posted in the link mentioned above, I continue to have flawless results streaming Dolby 5.1 rips to my PS3 using the Unmux - Remux method to extract the different audio tracks then rebuild it as a single, uncompressed .mpg file. Despite being a two step process, each step takes only about 15 to 20 minutes each per movie. MPG compressors can take HOURS to complete and you sacrifice video quality.

What you end up with is really just a single rebuilt vob style container that ends in .mpg to make it 'friendlier' to the PS3.
VOB and MPG files are just containers for the many video and audio files and various formats of audio and video can be stored inside them.


For Spiffnme:
This "container" idea is the answer to what you were asking about. MKV files are just yet another container for video and audio files, and other stuff like menus. For instance, inside an MPG container, the video file itself might be an AVI file.

You need to add a compatible CODEC to whatever player you are using to try and view whatever file types you encounter.

Think of a CODEC as acting like a DAC in an audio receiver DVD player. It's a piece of software instead of hardware but it is used to break down or "decode" the different video and audio files into the raw data that your TV can display. The trick in the computer AV world is that you need a different compatible CODEC for every type of file.

In my post above, there is a link to a good, all-encompassing CODEC package that works with Windows Media Player and many others. It covers just about every file type imaginmable, including MKV files.

I have never used PS3 Media Server but if you are saying it requires files to be in MKV format, then it also probably requires a CODEC as a lot of these "players" and "Streamers" leave it up to you as to what CODEC you decide to use. Like the aduio world. Many CODECs claim better results over thier competition.

Short Answer, you need to find a CODEC that will unencode whatever is in the MKV files and is recognized by PS Media Server.

Or try out TVersity as I have. It is certainly no easier to get going and I have no idea if its a better or worse solution but I can vouch that it does a great job at video, MP3s, pictures and even Internet streams. Like all, it seems, it does take some effort to get it configured correctly.

I don't remember, Murph: Did you ever say whether or not you had kids?

Ha! That one took me a while, but no. No Kids. Really LOL.