

No waiting, no mounting, no TMT, just a movie that played. DolbyTrueHD showed up on my receiver right away and the sound difference was very apparent. First go around I did not get the DolbyTrueHD 7.1 so I stopped the movie and went into the LAV Audio setup and selected to bitstream Dolby TrueHD and DTS-MA and tried again. Selected out the DolbyTrueHD 7.1 track and the English subs, took about 20 minutes or so to complete.Ĭopied it over to my media drives and then ran it through MBC, let MB grab the metadata and set things up and then I played it. Hardware decoding using devices with Sigma chips will definetly beat software decoding in PCs when it comes to deinterlacing or BluRay players like Pioneer BDP-62FD with custom firm ware will produce better video quality from BluRays as well as no restrictions when it comes to playback.ĭid a test last night/ this morning by ripping Star Trek: Wrath of Khan using MakeMKV. At present I have two and toying wih the idea of adding a third. As I mentioned many times before, I am getting used to having more then one playback device for my content. There is no question about the quality that LAV filters with madVR renderer will produce, have you though tested interlaced VC1 content and checked for smooth playback dropped frames? While it is true that folder rips will play on the internal player, it still leaves you with the problem of seamless branching when you have an extended and theatrical cut in the same release as well as the headache for using BD lite menus (filenames) when navigating TV shows or having to rip the disc to individual episodes. They look beautiful, and playback with HD audio too. I can honestly say, MBT's internal play along with LAV filters play my folder rips very well. I have in general been happy with the ISO rips, but if it can be better/easier I would love to learn and go that route. I know I can use MakeMKV to rip the Blu-ray and select out what I want, but when it comes to playback, is there anything else, like further configuration of LAV, that will have to be done.Īlso, is there anything to deal with 3D Blu-ray ripping where I do not have to change the 3D format? (Does it even matter if you do?) In my current setup I rip my Blu-rays with DVDFab and keep only the main movie, high definition audio, and the English subs and write them to the ISO format. I can for sure see that it is easier, no mounting and no external player, but I was wondering what else I would run into or have to configure if I chose to go that route. In an earlier conversation today in a different thread it was suggested that having Blu-ray rips stored as MKV rather than ISO would provide better functionality with MB.
