How To Rip 4K Blu-ray Movies & TV Seasons in 2024! | COMPRESSION & MORE

A fantastic one stop shop for an old giffer like me that last ripped a disc back in the early 2000's - a lot has changed since then for sure... Thanks again.

Started my own plex server using your older videos. A+ content.

You read my mind---I had just started ripping my own copies of the 4K LOTR Extended edition BDs. Lifesaver!

You did an excellent job of going over each scenario. Very well done

Found this channel a couple of weeks ago. This has been great. I've since started ripping and using my own plex server and it is awesome. Planning to get a UGreen NAS and make it bigger.

This is a great one. I just ripped my entire library over the last 6 weeks using your older videos as guides. Started with an ASUS BD-R drive, but returned that one and switched to the LG. The ASUS was scratching my discs. Anyway, I used MKVToolNix to multiplex the mkv files when removing subtitle tracks I didn't want (after MakeMKV did its thing), relabeled things and even did the split after chapter and appending for episodes of Lost that are recognized by Plex and Zidoo as separate or combined episodes. But, I don't know why, it totally slipped my mind that I could do this merging of MKV files for LOTR Extended Editions or The Hobbit 3D Extended Editions. I'm combining them now and then gonna throw them back up on the Synology NAS! Thanks for your videos!

Thank you for the annual update!!! Live this!+

Great video! Very informative.

Your channel has been so helpful. I’m still debating on buying a NAS or building one. Waiting on a sale for something that will work for me. But I appreciate this detailed breakdown on the ripping process.

Dude awesome video, the MakeMKV is just like the old DVD Decrypter 😊

Great tutorial 👍 Thanks…

Do not use nvenc or other gpu encoding. It is designed for livestreaming (ie. speed) and not high quality encoding. Downsizing and compressing 4k movies to 1080p works really well with h.265 (passthrough metadata in handbrake should always be turned on for hdr ) and if you have your original discs, you can always convert them again when the next big compression standard comes out. There are lots of topics to discuss... ie, if you convert to h.265 for Plex server, and your TV does not have h.265 decode ability, your server will need to do a re-encode to a format the device supports. Handbrake could probably have a series of videos to review all of the options and how to use them correctly.

I’ve been ripping with a Pioneer BDR-UD04 and MakeMKV for ~2 years now. It’s an excellent drive for this and it can also burn DVDs, Blu-Rays, UHD Blu-Rays and M-Discs (for archival purposes).

Thanks for such a comprehensive guide. I'm using MakeMKV with MacOS. Just a couple of questions. How do you deal with TV shows episodes being out of order? does MakeMKV installs Java? I don't want Java at all in my OS, I'm a little bit paranoid and I think it's a well know security breach. Thank you!

Great video. You literally explained my ?s I am wondering though, if I'm only going to rip Blu-ray no 4ks yet. With the player you use the m disk lg player do I need to flash the stuff if no riping to 4k ?

I like the wii u stand for the disc!

The mist difficult thing I found at least a few years ago was encoding/compression of 4K HDR to maintain support for the most amount of playback devices and not losing certain HDR features. For instance maintaining playback of dolby vision, HDR10+, and HDR10 with proper failover for what the playback device supports. Requires special consideration to the HDR profiles and settings used for H265 encoding. Idk of they've sort of streamlined it now.

You should do a video on 3D Blu-ray for viewing on VR.

Hello, I just had to return that lg optical drive today, because it stopped working after a couple weeks. This seems to be a very common issue. Is there a more reliable option that is reasonably priced?

Got my own plex server set up on the exact same nas you have 🤣 havent ripped anything for years, so it'll be good to brush up and get the correct drive now my old one is broken 😁