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blgentry:

--- Quote from: mgreg123 on August 01, 2016, 09:05:40 am ---I'm going take your advise. Here are my last questions. Does MKV take the place of AnyDVD HD and is there any difference in quality?
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As I understand it, AnyDVD rips the native file format, leaving the encryption in place and all of the structure including menus, extra footage, and that kind of thing.  I believe AnyDVD is required for playback also, since the disk structure is still encrypted.

MakeMKV decrypts the video stream, or streams, and puts it into an MKV container.  As such, it can be played by almost any player, because it's decrypted.  It is 100% full quality; only the encryption gets stripped out.  However, MKVs are just audio/video files.  They do not support menus or anything like that.  So, no menus.  Also, if you want access to other video segments on the disk, like "making of" or other special features, you have to rip those to individual MKV files.  This isn't hard or anything.  It just requires some decision making and thought.  For 95% of my movies, I just rip the main title (the movie) and leave the other stuff behind.


--- Quote ---Also I have PowerDVD 12 Ultra as another option. Which should I choose?

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I'm not familiar with the differences between AnyDVD, PowerDVD, and MakeMKV.  I've only used MakeMKV.  Again, maybe someone else with experience will have more to say.

Good luck!

Brian.

CountryBumkin:
PowerDVD is a player (like JRiver MC). It has a one benefit over MC in that it can read/open BD menus. It has a downside too, and that is that PowerDVD is a "licensed player" (so it has to follow all the industry rules about protecting the content) - meaning you can play a ripped or copied movie on it (unless the encryption is first removed). It only works with "store bought" movies, or ripped/copied moves where the encryption has been removed.

AnyDVD (and AnyDVD HD for Blu-rays) will remove the encryption on the fly, so you can insert any disk in your computer's player and it will work. You can use AnyDVD HD to remove the encryption from the disk as you copy/rip it so the copied version will play anywhere.

MakeMKV will also remove the encryption during a rip - but it doesn't have the "on the fly" ability.  And the other things Brian mentioned about menus. Also MakeMKV does not have a workaround yet for Cinavia (AnyDVD HD with CloneBD does, or you get around this issue using an unlicensed player)

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I forgot to ask, but are you playing your BD movie (13 and Risen) on a MC Client machine? If so, you need to map the client's drive to the server drive where the movie is located. Also, if the audio is not setup right you can get the error message too - it's not always related to the video side.

blgentry:

--- Quote from: CountryBumkin on August 01, 2016, 11:10:47 am ---Also MakeMKV does not have a workaround yet for Cinavia (AnyDVD HD with CloneBD does, or you get around this issue using an unlicensed player)

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But this has no effect on MC whatsoever.  MC ignores Cinavia.  Or am I wrong?

Brian.

mgreg123:
Both Movies Risen and 13 hours were played from the Media server not a client.

Thanks,
Michael G

CountryBumkin:

--- Quote from: blgentry on August 01, 2016, 11:37:14 am ---But this has no effect on MC whatsoever.  MC ignores Cinavia.  Or am I wrong?

Brian.

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Yes. Since MC is an unlicensed player, it doesn't care about displaying Cinavia message. I was just pointing out the differences (and it would be relevant if OP wanted to use PowerDVD for whatever reason).

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