BD Drives with Vortexbox

[Ron Olsen]

jeepguy_1980 said:


Ron Olsen said:


Update via the VB GUI and you will pick up the vortexbox-1.9 package which has Blu-ray ripping enabled with no changes needed to the code.

No metadata is retrieved for Blu-ray DVDs, as mentioned in my previous post. Hopefully, Andrew can add this capability in a future update.


Do we have to purchase a MakeMKV license for this to work?


Yes, a license is required for Blu-ray ripping in MakeMKV, after a 30-day free trial. *See*http://makemkv.com/buy/ for details.

Note: Andrew does not get any income from this; it's all between you and MakeMKV. *If anyone knows of a free Blu-ray ripper that runs headless on Fedora Linux, I'm sure Andrew would be happy to use it.

[Ron Olsen]

jeepguy_1980 said:


Have you guys tried using this? *I'm going to play with it this weekend.

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http://mediainfo.sourceforge.net/en


A command-line version of mediainfo is available in the VortexBox repository. You can install it via

yum install mediainfo

[jeepguy_1980]

How do you apply the license to MakeMKV in VB?

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Mediainfo claims it gets bluray metadata.

[Ron Olsen]

jeepguy_1980 said:


How do you apply the license to MakeMKV in VB?


Don't know; I'm still on the 30-day free trial and haven't bought a license. You could ask in the MakeMKV forum about this: http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/.....um.php?f=3


Mediainfo claims it gets bluray metadata.


The command-line version of mediainfo that's available in the VB repository displays audio and video info from the files it processes, and works fine on .mkv files containing Blu-ray rips. *If there is metadata (tag) info in the file, it will also display it.

[buba013]

add in blurip good program with good streaming results.

[Ron Olsen]

buba013 said:


add in blurip good program with good streaming results.


Thanks for the tip.

However, blurip is a Windows-only program, so it can't be used on VortexBox.

http://code.google.com/p/blurip/

[xfire]

Looking for a recommendation on an good "external" BluRay for my Vortexbox.

Thanks

Bob

[Ron Olsen]

I have a Digistor DIG-79102 USB BD/DVD Writer that I've used to rip Blu-ray DVDs on my Mac and on my VBA. Seems to work well.

http://www.digistor.com/Digist.....-Tray-Load

http://www.amazon.com/DIGISTOR.....B002SY5GRS

[xfire]

Thanks once again Ron.