Well the saga continues. After my initial post of using MakeMKV and DVR-MS ToolBox readers of the post and I have found some issues. It appears that the DVR-MS Toolbox encoding the MKV files is failing with an error trying to decode the video contained within it. After a bit of investigation it appears to be that some Blu-Ray disks work fine and some don't. A few people have resolved this by installing different codecs but still occasionally have issues. As my goal was to be able to RIP my Blu-Ray disks to the hard disk with the least amount of effort and without installing lots of software on my media centre this solution doesn't really cut it. As you may of guessed I killed my Windows 7 by trying additional third party codecs.
So I was back to my quest to find a solution. On my travels I discovered an application called TSMuxer. This application has the ability to very quickly convert HD video files between formats with no quality loss whatsoever. This works by changing the container formats but keeping the video and audio streams the same.
TSMuxer is a small app that has the ability to grab the .mkv files I had created via the instructions of the last post on this topic and convert them to either .ts and .m2ts. The file format m2ts is the original blu-ray format and .ts is the original dvd format found within the vob filests.
Compared to my attempt with DV-RMS, you are not going to see the files size reduction as you did with Microsoft own format. However I find this procedure much more reliable and as .m2ts is a container there is no loss of quality.
TSMuxer does not require the input file to be a .mkv, I started with this as I had started going through my Blu-Ray collection. You can simply use TSMuxer to look at the disk and burn it straight to .m2ts.
This process took about 20 minutes and resulted in a file that plays natively in Windows Media Player 12, Windows Media Center and even better – streams and plays in HD to an Xbox 360 Media Center Extender. No stupid codec packs and no dodgy DirectShow filters.
For more information and to download TSMuxer follow this link http://www.smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html.
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