So I am wanting to start getting into buying blue rays and ripping them to my media server. I also am seriously considering using BD for archiving important documents and such off my Nexcloud. I started looking into drives and these two seem to be highly recommended.
I guess I was wondering how others that use Blueray Drives for stuff have their setup? If I get an internal and then install it in my server obv I remove the bottleneck of moving data over the network. The advantage of the external one being better flexibility and I can use it with other machines easily.
If I were buying a drive for ripping, I would head over to makemkv and get a drive confirmed to be libredrive compatible. That way you can rip 4k ultra HD discs if you want.
Both of these are confirmed to be reliable good drives by makemkv. I guess I was looking more for insight into peopleās workflow and how they actually use them.
Rip with makeMKV, to save on storage (at the cost of image quality), I crank the rips through Handbreak (make sure to keep subtitles or audio streams depending on needs).
I do full rips with makemkv for everything from DVD to ultra hd bluray. When possible I manually find the chapter titles and put them into mkv.
Then for DVD and regular bluray I CPU transcode to shrink the file. DVD gets h.264 transcode and bluray gets h.265. I find the space savings of h265 on DVD is minimal and not worth the time differential. I also manually input the meta data like title and release date here, if makemkv did t get it.
4k ultra hd doesnāt get transcoded, unless I need a temporary transcode. In that case I use GPU transcode.
Much cheaper. I will give that a try first. The other drives were interesting just because they are naively supported by makemkv so you donāt have to flash firmware.
Seconding the 50-60$ recommendation, the most important thing will be verifying the firmware versioning and drive compatibility on Makemkvās forum. Picked up 2 of these last year for exactly your purpose and they have worked beautifully, and much much faster than what I had before.
Contrary to some here I leave all mine as the .MKV files without transcode to preserve as much as possible, at huge detriment to storage space. ĀÆ_(ć)_/ĀÆ
I use the ASUS BW-16D1HT internal, and the Pioneer BDR-XD07UHD external. Both support 4K and M-DISC. Iāve used the ASUS to burn 100GB four layer BD discs for archiving data. These are both more expensive than the LG.
Just an honest question going on the premise that we own the Discs and avoid legal or not question. If use the something such as the Rarr usenet apps and have great internet speed would there be any difference if quality if downloaded a copy of my movie in a high quality Bluray Remux say wit both dolby vision and HDR 10. Or for that matter just I could just download the disc and then do the encoding however I wanted to keep it. Just simply asking is there any reason the quality would be worse. I can download a 35 to 58 GB file already the way I would want it and it will be seen by plex and ready to go in about 15 to 25 minutes. That is quicker for me than ripping it and then encoding to a super high quality remux myself even on the Threadripper because I would do a 2 pass and such. Again just wondering is there any quality to be gained and I recognize how lucky I am to living a small town where the county decided to start up their own fiber Internet, cable service (thanks to Greenlight Fiber of Wilson, NC) Now I could never move, LOL.
