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    blu ray ripping problem - small m2ts files and/or multiple similar (complete?) main movie mkv streams with makemkv

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by masterchef341, Mar 27, 2011.

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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    so far I've only had this on 1 blu ray, but I suspect I will run into this again and I want to know what to do-

    the problem is that on this blu ray, when decrypted, I get a ton of small m2ts files instead of one m2ts that obviously is the main movie

    further, if i just use makemkv to pull the complete stream and put it in an mkv, I end up with 3 mkv files at 20+ GB each, and each of these mkv containers seems to contain the whole movie, but they are not all exactly the same size...

    not really sure whats going on here? should i just use makemkv and take the largest one? what are the other mkv files of similar size and seemingly the same content missing?

    thanks!
     
    masterchef341, Mar 27, 2011
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    masterchef341 The guy from The Notebook

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    update: nvm - figured it out

    if the theatrical and extended releases are on the same disc, depending on how they handle the files, they may share common file space.
     
    masterchef341, Mar 28, 2011
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    A whole bluray movie contains a main movie and multiple small m2ts files. The small m2ts files contain some unimportant things like making film, advertisement, some plots, etc. So you need not keep it. MakeMKV is a great program can extract blu-ray folder from disc and saved in MKV, personaly i usually use Aunsoft Blu-ray Ripper, for it contains more formats for me to choose, no limited to mkv.
     
    butter1093, Apr 21, 2011
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