Hello, thanks for the Video. I purchased the Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD from your link, and in makemkv I'm getting Status: Possible, not yet enabled. Have you come across this?
Thanks for watching! This is really odd. In our experience LibreDrive was already enabled out of the box. Is the firmware version of your drive different from ours? We might suggest making a help thread on the MakeMKV forum as well since they are pros with drive firmware and LibreDrive support. Hope this helps.
@@TwoGuyzTech I did, and turns out that Amazon sent me a Feb 2023 drive with 1.03 Firmware already on it. So I returned it and am getting one from one of the guys on the forum.
@@WilPagan All good, thank you for letting us know, that sucks they came out with a new firmware. I will pin your comment so hopefully other people can be aware that some of these drives are getting updated from the factory. Hopefully you can get setup with a drive that works out better!
@@TwoGuyzTech sounds like the recommended drive is already junk like you mention at the beginning of the video, its too hard to find matching software and hardware. I don't understand why this is still an ongoing problem the 4K format is over 6 years old now.
Mark my words, when we lose the option to own physical media, like anything else, it will be a loss that we will of wished we didn't let happen. Cancel your streaming services and insist on physical media. So you OWN IT. I built my home theater, home media server (NAS) and got BW-16D1HT drives years back because I saw this trend trying to move everything to subscription/renting. I buy every physical copy I can find, be that DVD, BD or 4K. Even digitized VHS's that were never released on disc. Good video, more need to do this!
Unfortunately a lot of different industries are moving to the same path (like video games) and it's scary not feeling like you own the content you want to watch. I absolutely agree with your comment and I hope plenty of other people see the value in physical media as time goes on. Thanks for watching!
Technically even with a disc you only own a license to watch it, in some places like the UK it's legal to create a back up for personal use however it's barely legally challenged elsewhere anyway. I don't like subscription based services as much as the next guy, but do we really expect everyone to be ripping all these discs and setting up a home theatre?
I've recently started buying (mostly) 4k blu-rays. Didn't buy or even watch movies for years. If you have one or two subsription services where you can get all you need at the quality you want that is fine and convenient, but that's hardly ever the case. The potential to be convenient if what you want is where you want when you want it is streaming's only really positive side IME, but it has tons of negatives compared to 4k blu-rays. I don't mind not owning TV series, which I mostly don't have time to watch multiple times anyway, but owning movies seems to be vastly superior to streaming for a number of reasons.
I'm rebuying all my childhood favourites on physical media because if I want to stream them they're usually behind a pay wall twice the price of a blu ray or DVD. We've sold our soul man
I bought an Asus BW-16D1X-U external USB blu-ray drive last week for ripping 4K blu-rays and it's been fantastic. It rips 4K discs in about 30 minutes. Standard blu-rays in about 20m. I bought it used for $60 (free shipping) and flashed the firmware, then opened it up and moved the drive from its USB enclosure over to my desktop tower. It was a really cheap and easy way to get into blu-ray ripping. The speeds are great too.
@@markvandenberg4606 hey I actually ended up doing it and I’m on Mac. The forum post on MakeMKV’s website is mostly all that you need, but as much as the authors and other users claim it is, I found the instructions somewhat cryptic. For the LG model I bought I had to flash at least 3 different firmwares before actually getting the drive to rip 4K discs. Not to mention, the actual final firmware needed to make it work I had to dig a bit to find it.
I’ll also add I’ve been using the same Pioneer BD drive for over 3 years now, and it’s been amazing. Any problems I’ve had with it stem from software and not hardware. The fact that it doesn’t use a tray was my main reason for buying it.
@@StingerFromAbove yes, but I believe you’re going to have to pay for an app that can do it. I’m not sure of any that are free. That’s why I don’t use it to watch 4K BR Discs. I have however used MakeMKV to rip 4K discs. I have a 2017 27” iMac and a 2019 16” MacBook Pro that I use it with.
I happened to buy this suggested drive on Amazon in February from the "Produplicator Store". It was $60 more than from the Pioneer store, but it did work as described. Thanks for helping me find a way to digitize our 4K Ultra HD movies!
It is a small thing and not a major question, but this video was not only helpful, it was well done. It was clear, easy to follow, and not only answered my question. I learned a few things as well. Well well done!
starting my 1st 4k rip right now. finally got everything setup: NAS with lots of space, bluray drive, etc. will see how this turns out. oddly enough, this makes me want to purchase physical movies again, which i havent done in years.
@@deansmits006 got all my 4k blurays that i own ripped, slowly buying more as i catch them on sale at amazon. i got 3x 8tbs in my NAS, so 16tb usable space. down to 6tbs free, was looking at another 8tb on amazon this morning to fill the last bay of my NAS. although, i had to reinstall windows on my PC, so i gotta reinstall makemkv and get the beta code again, but wont have to do that until i get my next 4k bluray
You really need to update this video and its description to let people know that the Pioneer BDR-XS07 doesn't work anymore due to 1.03 being what they ship out now. That drive currently can't even be flashed to work properly at all, so it's literally one of the main drives to avoid. You've got the Amazon link right at the top of the description without any warning that it should not be used. If you're not going to change the video itself, at least update the description with a clear warning. The fact you make commission off of that is even worse.
@@a_a1796 Yeah no problem. I unfortunately purchased one for Christmas, only to find it’s now useless for this purpose. I’m disappointed they haven’t updated the description on this video.
I have been using it for years,full videos.Maybe they changed it but I am using version 1.5.1 on Mac and I know it is in repositories on linux for free.@@azurekite3870
I've been using MakeMKV for a long time and I must say this is a great intro video! You can also stream line the track selection by selection the preferred language (i assume English for most watching this video) under the preferences menu then the language tab. Happy ripping everyone!!!!
I still have all the DVD's I bought YEARS ago. And did the same with XBMC on my xbox. Still have about 3 of them OG units. My main reason for doing this back them was KIDS! My god, they would scratch up any Game disc or DVD movie title I had. At times, I owned 4-5 copies of a DVD or Games. Putting them on a NAS or Windows SMB share saved me THOUSANDS of dollars! I would just rip the entire ISO and then set up the Scrapers. But even I have to admit that doing this now is more just for the titles I really like to watch. And there are only a few of them on Blueray I care to watch these days as not much from Hollywood really gets me wanting to watch or ever watch it again. Then as the kid grew up? I really had no need to do this. With Blurrays? I just have not bothered. Overtime? I really don't spend much time doing home theater. And I have most of my stuff in storage now. The golden age of it is sort of lost on me as the kids grew up. And I don't have to worry about messed up or scratched discs like I use to, making the disc unplayable or unwatchable.
EXCELLENT and informative video. I had previously installed it, and it rips DVDs just fine, but after 3 blurays it wouldn't allow me to rip any more blurays. I thought I'd have to buy a key until I saw your video as to how to get the free key. Now it works on blurays and DVDs just fine. So a great bit THANK YOU!
Thank you. I am echoing so many comments here. Excellent tutorial, very well presented and easy to follow. I am waiting on delivery of the Pioneer drive and look forward to ripping my extensive movie library.
So I have registered MKV and bought a refurb pc for $150 and three external drives. All 3 drives can rip Blu-ray’s at the same time. I can only burn one disc using my Mac. All computers use same MKV license. Save all media to external drives which become my backups. I copy files to my NAS. All I was looking for is a drive to rip my 4K. Thanks for video and tips!
Just a quick pointer you need to flag the forced subs as well NAME = Forced and FLAG = df. Also VC1 codec does not work so you will have to convert the vc1 codec to a format plex likes. The only blurays I have trouble with are 3D blurays. Also check you disc as slight scratches or dirty disc will end in a failed rip or will not rip at all. And for tv series and film naming I use a programme called Filebot it has saved my countless hours renaming boxsets etc.
Could you give a more detailed description of the subtitle settings you've mentioned. I recently went through a lot of research to get forced subtitles to work correctly for me in Plex. I just want to make sure that your settings get included in my workflow, but I'm not sure where or how you're setting these values. Thanks in advance, and thanks for making this point. I don't think a lot of people know how to get forced subtitles to work correctly in Plex. ~Frank
I have problem with VC-1 codec a well….but it seems to be the client that most often doesn’t support them rather than the Plex server… I tried to use handbrake to converte to h.264 or h.265 but I don’t know how to do in order to avoid any video degradation and I just want to pass all the audio untouched. I don’t care about reducing file size….
@@yourpalfranc 12:29 the subtitles labeled (forced only) - click on that, then choose Properties. “FLAG” will = d for default, you want to add f next to d - as in “df” - so that FLAG = df This way your player gets “flagged” to play the forced subs. For some reason, d is not enough to flag the player. The df must be flagged to the player.
I learn today that I can unselect all audio fils in just 1 click, cool! Shame Dolby Vision disk can't be rip yet with MakeMKV 1.17.5. THX for the video.
great tutorial. used it for years and this is spot on for both Blu ray and 4k. only issue is subtitles not working all the time. Example Avengers. In the beginning when Natasha is held you dont get the standard English subtile. But on Inglorus Basterds you do get it.
Thanks for watching! Subtitles are a mixed bag with 4K unfortunately. I hope that by selecting all the English subtitles in the movie people will get all the data they need but it's hard to predict how the studio will format them on the disc. I appreciate the feedback! :)
@@TwoGuyzTech Though I use Mac, there is on older windows a download called ClownBD. It is a group of software (free) that does very well with subtitles if you make an effort. As forced subs can be a stream of its own or a subset of a stream, you can find which is which and flag it as forced. Something if you have time you may want to check out. Also, be aware that it uses a specific older version of Java.
There’s an app called subtitle edit that OCRs the subtitle file and saves it as a text file, which you then can add to your handbrake file. It can select multiple sub files, so you can get the standard subs, the foreign language bits, etc.
Thanks for watching, last time we heard an update about this, the BDR-XS07 drives being sold currently are not able to be patched. We made an updated guide for using an LG WH14NS40 drive in another video, but the MakeMKV forum post we linked should always have the most up-to-date information. Hope this helps!
Logan! Need to find the latest 4K RIPPER ! PLEASE let me know what you recommend. Can't find the MakeMKV link to the latest drive as of Jan/Feb 2025. Thanks
I did this for my 500+ collection of DVDs and bluray. I have backups of every file, so it doubles the storage needed - I don't want to have to rip 100s of movies again if a drive fails. I'm not going to rip my 4K discs, as the file sizes are really big. I have a Panasonic 820 4K player for playback.
i have a registered version of MakeMKV and I have a question regarding the "cover.jpg" that shows at the bottom of the listing @10:32. If you include that file in your rip is it embedded in the final .MKV file? I use Plex as my media sever on my network so when I add the file to the server will the correct "cover" be displayed to choose from?
Great guide. I found my old bluray drive the other week, unfortunately liteon drives don't seem to be listed as compatible :( guess I have to go buy a new bluray drive lol, after putting my old one in storage more than 10 years ago.
"You need physical blu rays to rip". Very informative. 😄 love the video! Thanks for the tips! I've had issues with mkv even on my dvds. Sometimes I get good rips, and sometimes I get ones that just skip.
Who wants to watch 4K movies on a laptop, or a cellphone? 4K UHD movies (movies in general) are supposed to be viewed on a big screen TV or a projection screen.
@@slimdude2011 I know right? That’d be weird. So it’s a good thing I have a big screen and surround sound I watch them on. (Btw read that in a totally sarcastic mind voice)
I would like to mention. On Make MKV there is another option called Backup where you will have all the menus also installed. I hope you will try and comment on this option
Is it also possible to burn 4K HDR movies to a BDXL disc with this burning device? If so, does the 4K HDR effect stay the same or doesn't the BDXL disc support HDR image? And what about 120fps? Does the BDXL disc support this too? I really want to know. And another question: which edit software program does support highest picture quality (4K HDR 120fps) to be burned on BDXL disc WITH the possibility of making a Blu-ray menu structure (START FILM, CHAPTERS etc.)? Does anyone know???
Question: I am able to rip 4K fine with DVDFab products, and select presets for size/quality I like at around 4 to 7 Gigs in size files. I know a little bit about codecs, selecting 2 pass, and adding my own language tracks to the DVDFab result using free software like MKVToolnix to add tracks, and AVidemux to synchronize audio if necessary for my nieces that speak Spanish. Should I stay like this, or would I get more benefits in size/quality if I nerd out on MKV forums, and learn more about messing with codecs, and adcanced re-encoding options?
You should consider not wasting your time reducing the quality of the 4k discs. Just rip them as movie-only at full quality as the best picture possible is the whole point of getting a UHD blu-ray. Otherwise you might as well just spend a lot less buying a code and do streaming 4k. HDD space is very cheap relative to the cost of the movies and ripping movie at full bitrate takes more like 10 minutes instead of hours.
@@curtisbmeThing is there's different reasons to wanting smaller files, if I'm watching on my phone or just want HDR without 40gb file I can only get that through UHD movies still.
@@sinnwalker You do that on the fly with something like Plex that can do real-time transcoding for the time you are watching on a lower end device, you don't do it by ruining the source.
Great tutorial, I’ve been ripping DVDs and Blu-rays for some time using Make MKV and using PLEX and an older PC to store my rips. I’ve never tried it with 4K Blu-ray. As I’ve never owned a 4K Blu-ray player I’ve never bought any UHD Blu-ray Discs. I’ve got a fairly new (2019) Pioneer drive in my PC so I’ve taken a risk and ordered a UHD disc to test it out. 🤞
How did it work out for you? I'll be trying this for the first time when mine arrives in the next couple days. I'm curious about the level of learning curve involved for someone with a basic understanding of PC's. I installed Make MKV, and purchased a 20Tb HDD, but I'm waiting on the Pioneer drive.
@@ChrisWaters If you mean which player did I buy, it was a Sony UBP-X700 UHD BD Player, I picked this one as it also played SACDs as well & I do have a small collection of those discs. If you mean which drive I have in my PC it was a Pioneer BDR-212DBK, but the firmware was 1.03 which means it won’t work as a 4K disc ripper with MKV.
How can you get UHD Blueray to ripped faster? I'm using Leaw 14:37 o Professional 13 with the pioneer drive you recommended on my 2 year old computer. If I invest in an mini computer just for ripping UHD will this speed up the process. 2 hours for a movie is too long and I have 400 to ripped and im only up to 50😭
It still does not work for DolbyVision Discs right. As the DolbyVision Metadata is not picked up by MKV yet. For now I guess Discs are still the way to go.
@@KING_DRANZER Thanks for watching - MakeMKV does properly rip Dolby Vision enhancement layer data and embeds it into the MKV using DV profile 7, which is not supported by the vast majority of players yet (which usually support DV profile 5, the Dolby Vision format used by most streaming services). So unless you have a player that can handle Dolby Vision in an MKV you will probably only get HDR10. But we still like to rip these movies in order to future-proof our library. Hope this helps :)
@@TwoGuyzTech Cool. So the newest iteration resolves that issue. Have not tried it and stayed away as it was not supporting it previously. I guess will have to give it a try.
I assuming its safe to buy the Pioneer BDRXS07TUHD but it has a 'T' (in the model name), an added dilema to my confusion to proceed. I suspect it covers Australian market, it's a better price than paying postage for the other.
Error 'Scsi error - ILLEGAL REQUEST:INVALID FIELD IN CDB' occurred while issuing SCSI command A40..002000800 to device 'SPTI:\Device\CdRom0' help please
Thanks for the very clear video. Will ripping movies or music concert videos using MakeMKV bypass the region code and allow me to play back on my computer? I have a couple that are not USA concerts, and one of the DVDs is a PAL format. Will the PAL disc be able to play? Can I convert the files to MP4 and burn them to disc to play in my Sony 4K UHD Blu Ray DVD player? Thanks in advance for your response!
Thanks for watching! Yep this should work fine but we haven't tested DVD discs from other regions personally. 4K Blu-rays do not have any region code so they should also work perfectly. You can convert the resulting MKV with a software like Handbrake to get an MP4 and put it onto a disc if your player supports playing MP4 files from disc, though it might be easier just to put the MP4 file on a USB stick. Hope this helps!
I am using the Verbatim Slimline bluray burner which I can recommend. Apparently it comes in three different variants where only one of them reads 4K, otherwise they're all the same hardware except for what type of USB connection it depends on. It is very small and even fits into one of those CD carrying cases in fabric, if it is square shaped. The only downside I find is that it feels a bit fragile when it's open as it is not a laydown tray but rather a pinch-center arm that comes out and that feels a bit flimsy. Very cheap though, it's the best way to get into burning bluray backups in case you're stuck in the cloud or on external hard drives prone to mechanical failure or handling malpractice.
@@hammerheadyak I have never tried but yes, it should be able. It's just about having the right software. I have the 43890 model which doesn't do 4K/UHD but does BDXL. It's the 43888 that does both.
@@fortynine3225 Good to know, and I'll keep that in mind. Still, it's conveniently small, it was cheap and seems to do the job. If the opposite is buying a chassis mounted drive then I'm out of luck anyway; my last tower was my XP computer and I have no intention of going back to them. As an entry model, it's still easy to recommend to newcomers since it does the deal and is fairly quiet since it only goes to 6x. I've had fat DVD drives that were insanely fast but could bring down the house walls by being so loud.
@@Henkibojj I was looking into that a week or so ago with folks on Forums advising strongly against buying a slim burner. I bought a OWC Mercury Pro, with being very fast and highly rated being a sales argument, for online HD movies and flac music burning on a disc (i do own lots of blu-rays and CDs but some stuff i like is not for sale that way). And i bough BD-R and M DISC BD-R (which is suppost to last decades). So it is not about ripping for me but putting data on.
Hello. I just came across this video. Thank you ufor posting. This video is now over 1 year old. Do you have a new DVD Burner to replace the Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD? I am planning to buy one soon. Thank you
Thanks for the video. Although I am quite familiar with MakeMKV, I was not aware of the "Expert mode" setting - seems useful and will certainly look into it next time I use MakeMKV. Couple questions regarding the license that you mentioned was purchased 12 yrs back 1) Is it still working on new installs of MakeMKV 2) Can this license be used on multiple devices? I use different computers (Intel NUC, 2011 Mac Mini, etc.) depending on where I am (home theater room, server room etc.) doing the ripping and wonder if the same license can be used on multiple devices or would I need to purchase separate licenses for each? Thanks. And keep up the great work! 👍
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful. Yep our old existing license still works on new installs and you can use it across as many devices as you want.
@@TwoGuyzTech Though if you use it a lot and having given him anything in 12 years, you should consider a donation to him by 'buying' the license again.
I own both a windows desktop and a MacBook Pro. With MKV on my Mac I ended up getting constant error messages in regards to permissions so I removed it from the Mac. Currently using mkv going through my collection of tv shows etc, doing the DVD’s at the moment until I purchase a blu ray.
What I don’t understand is how to make sure the rip has all of the audio formats. Some discs have selectable audio between Atmos, TrueHD, DTS:X etc. Also if the disc has Dolby Vision profile too, is it also part of the rip?
THANK YOU for this video. I have the LG BH1640 that requires that flashing and other such. I am ordering TODAY another drive. I wanted to ask you if the Pioneer BDR-XS07S will work? It is USB C powered- UPDATE, I went ahead and ordered the same one in the video. I am hoping it is an older firmware. I am really frustrated with this. I just got a new mac mini m2 and have the NAS and I followed your steps to rip Aquaman ATMOS using my laptop Pioneer drive that shows the Libre functional. The MKV file was not recognized by Plex at all and when I play it in VLC I do not get ATMOS.
Hi, How do I make sure that I maintain 4k stream with Direct Play after ripping and not compressing the file? Is there a way to do this with a Sony A80L?
Thanks for watching. Simply do not enable any forms of transcoding during playback. For example, use a DLNA server, or Direct Playback in Jellyfin if your client supports it. Hope this helps!
TY for this great information and video. My question has to do with mini dvd disks. My son had a number of homemade family mini dvds before his passing in 2013. Would it be possible to use your software to make digital copies of his mini dvds?
Thank you very much for watching! This is a tricky issue. Cameras that recorded to Mini DVDs usually required a step to "finalize" the disc, which would process the video so that the disc would be playable on a normal DVD player. So if you can play the Mini DVDs on a DVD player, your discs are finalized, which means MakeMKV should be able to read the video just fine, as long as you have a DVD drive in your PC that is capable of reading Mini DVDs. The Pioneer drive we demonstrated here will not accept Mini DVDs and could be damaged if you try to play one - we recommend looking for a DVD drive that has a tray that slides out and has a small circular recess shaped for Mini DVD discs. These can be found in a lot of older desktop PCs and some laptops. If the disc was not finalized, you can still put it into a computer and see if there's any data that you can play inside the file structure of the disc. This is going to depend largely on the make and model of the camera, and we don't have experience with anything this old. There may also be data recovery professionals in your area that you can contact as a last resort if you're not having luck with anything and you want to get as much of the video from the discs as possible. We hope you can get those videos back and wish you all the best - hope this comment helps.
@@TwoGuyzTech thank you. His camera is a Sony mini disk . I appreciate your help with this in trying to get this these videos to his kids. If you have any other ideas please let me know.
Thanks for watching! ISO files can be nice if you want to perfectly preserve the entire disc including menus, but they do take up more space and cannot be streamed over applications like Plex.
Thanks for this helpful video! I want to ask if the home screen menu starts up where you can select the audio and video settings and play any extra features? Or does it go straight to the movie?
No you don't get that kind of ripping capabilities with MakeMKV, it just rips the movie or whatever video track you choose. In some cases you'll be able to see other video tracks like menu and extra features that you can rip separately if you need, but I doubt anyone's interested in having a separate non functioning menu video file. If you want to see the menu and/or play extra features of the movie, that's when you put the original disc in your player and watch that, once in your lifetime... ;)
Would you recommend HDD or SSD to store the movies? I’m going to want to stream mine to a player over the network and I want to make sure not to lose any quality when watching my 4K movies
NOTICE! Anyone who bought the pioneer drive and is having trouble ripping, as long as your firmware is before Dec 2022, such as version 1.02, you need a VPN to bypass the ISP geolock caused by the war so that makemkv can communicate with the server. This did the trick for me. Hopefully it helps you too.
I was dabbling with 4k rips a couple years ago... and remember there being issues ripping the HDR/Dolby Vision layer of the movie. Has this been fixed?
Thanks for watching - MakeMKV does properly rip Dolby Vision enhancement layer data and embeds it into the MKV using DV profile 7, which is not supported by the vast majority of players yet (which usually support DV profile 5, the Dolby Vision format used by most streaming services). So unless you have a player that can handle Dolby Vision in an MKV you will probably only get HDR10. But we still like to rip these movies in order to future-proof our library. Hope this helps :)
@@tomconnell7154 just check the technical specs of your player or test it in a store before buying one. That's what I did before buying a Zappiti Neo and it works great.
I've been ripping movies with MakeMKV and DVDFAB. The thing I've been wanting to do is combine 2 discs into one file. Like Zack Synder Justice League, extended versions of Lord of the rings and the hobbit.. Has anyone been able to do this?
Any suggestions on Windows software/programs to use for ripping DVD with multiple tv show episodes so each different show episode is its own file? Thanks
Good info, I've been using an internal Pioneer Bluray drive, never had a reason to upgrade to a 4K drive because I could never find a decent one. Also been using two other converters too, Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate and Acrok Video Converter, though I have not tried them with 4K discs. Aimersoft has a lot of other tools and even rips UA-cam videos to your computer (and other video sites if they're supported) and Acrok is a good, lightweight converter, sometimes converts the occasional disc that Aimersoft didn't pick up. I shall add MakeMVK to my list now :D
I know the convenience of having everything in one place I get that. But I'm sure quality is affected a bit since you're moving those data now from your storage to your AVR just to stream it vs getting those same data directly from the disc itself via the 4K player. How much data is lost from this ripping/local streaming method?
Hey! I just bought a nas and used your video to help me with ripping my 4k UHD discs! Thank you so much. So I have a question. I used makemkv. Do they rip the Dolby vision as well? When I’m using Plex on my nvidia shield pro, Dolby vision doesn’t pop up..am I missing something?
Thanks for watching! MakeMKV does properly rip Dolby Vision enhancement layer data and embeds it into the MKV using DV profile 7, which is not supported by the vast majority of network players/Plex clients yet (which usually support DV profile 5, the Dolby Vision format used by most streaming services). So unless you have a player that can handle Dolby Vision in an MKV you will probably only get HDR10. But we still like to rip these movies in order to future-proof our library. Hope this helps :)
Can you cofirm if this, Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD, can play read 4K UHD discs out of the box, did you have to downgrade or upgrade your firmware, or could you already play read 4K UHD disc out of the box, please let me know before i buy one. Thanks.
Thanks for watching! Can confirm as of the time of buying our drive, which wasn't that long ago, the Pioneer can rip 4K Blu-rays out of the box without any firmware upgrade/downgrade. And this should stay the same unless there's a change made by Pioneer. Hope this helps!
any advice for a DVD that has dozens of primary titles with different segment maps. I am assuming you need to find the correct one and this is done to make ripping more complex?
What's the best Nas to use? I also hàve a lot of movies and I still buy physical media cause with Vudu I don't like the idea of buying a movie and even though you bought it you don't actually own the copy I"ve been using Western Digital Elements 4tb external hard drive since 2018 I believe still works but I"ve been looking into these Nas drives if you have any recommendations I appreciate your input
Thanks for the informative video. I tried ripping one of my blue ray disc using this software, but the output folder contains lots of .mkv files, is that usual or I'm missing something?
I've been following along with every one that has their procedure for ripping blu Ray dish and I still get no disk after downloading the blu Ray disk. I'm using an ASUS blu ray player.
Be carful ripping the audio depending on what you are going to play the ripped movie on not all things support the audio tracks. Best to stick with the normal Dolby audio then the HD audio but if you are going to play back the ripped movie on your surround sound rip the HD audio
Flashing the firmware is a process you'll have to do to some 4K drives if you want to be able to use it to rip 4K - basically it means to modify the code inside the drive using a special tool. With the drive we used though this is not necessary, it all works out of the box and makes things much more convenient. Hope this helps!
I had a lot of Blu-rays movies backups in my hard drives in 4K (.mkv) that I back up long time ago with the size of 21GB or less but with the VLC media player, I discover that I can convert all these media from 21 GB to 4 GB each with the same quility. On VLC media player, you just go on midia menu then convert/ save and than You chose the movie 21 GB for exemple to convert to .MP4 to another place in your computer. I save almost 1 Terabyte on this.
LOL - I learned by googling how to do this yesterday and today this pops in my feed. Dang you google! But this was helpful and I learned a couple things. this works GREAT on my Mac with the LG bluray I flashed.
Great video. Is there a Linux tool for ripping a Bluray to an ISO (or some other disc image) where everything is included (menus, special features, etc.)?
You can use MAKEMKV, make a dump of the disc it wont be an ISO. But it will be the AACS, BDMV and JAVA folders. Then using a tool like "mkisofs" you can make an ISO of that output.
Thanks for watching! I tried looking up the ASUS BW-16D1X-U on the MakeMKV forums but unfortunately it sounds like that drive probably isn't going to work for 4K movies. We posted a link to a MakeMKV forum thread that has several different Blu-ray drives that are compatible with 4K ripping, and we can also highly recommend the Pioneer USB model that we linked in the description. Hope this helps!
I also found my other blu-ray drive, and its an LG BP50NB40, and I saw on the MKV page that there is a blu-ray drive BP50NB40 that will work, but doesn't specifically say LG. Do you think whoever made the list just forgot to put LG on there, and how do you flash a drive, because I don't know how, and don't want to mess it up.
@@silverbulletfan We bought the Pioneer drive to bypass all of the patching so we're not sure about what the process would be for that specific model. Our drive worked right out of the box so if you can patch your drive you probably don't have to make any changes to the app. The MakeMKV forums are a great resource as well.
Any info (and link) on what drives i can buy (Belgium or The Netherlands Sites) that are good to go (Firmware not updated or if possible to redo to older firmware)? I just bought some 4K disks that may need a rip for safety. And are there devices that can auto rip 4K (Like a NAS that can rip as well or something smaller)?
Thanks for watching! I'm running Fedora 37 with GNOME, everything is pretty much stock but I have installed a few extensions like Blur my Shell and gTile for usability. Hope this helps :)
Tha...nk You Sir for explain the paths for save data. Sir . I need your kind help, please is there any External 4k Blu ray Re writable DVD Driver . I need Re writable . If you know , pls let me know the co. and model name . I need to purchase please. Thanks again. ❤❤
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Hello, thanks for the Video. I purchased the Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD from your link, and in makemkv I'm getting Status: Possible, not yet enabled. Have you come across this?
Thanks for watching! This is really odd. In our experience LibreDrive was already enabled out of the box. Is the firmware version of your drive different from ours? We might suggest making a help thread on the MakeMKV forum as well since they are pros with drive firmware and LibreDrive support. Hope this helps.
@@TwoGuyzTech I did, and turns out that Amazon sent me a Feb 2023 drive with 1.03 Firmware already on it. So I returned it and am getting one from one of the guys on the forum.
@@WilPagan All good, thank you for letting us know, that sucks they came out with a new firmware. I will pin your comment so hopefully other people can be aware that some of these drives are getting updated from the factory. Hopefully you can get setup with a drive that works out better!
@@TwoGuyzTech sounds like the recommended drive is already junk like you mention at the beginning of the video, its too hard to find matching software and hardware. I don't understand why this is still an ongoing problem the 4K format is over 6 years old now.
@@TwoGuyzTech Would that also be a problem with non-4K Blu-rays?
Mark my words, when we lose the option to own physical media, like anything else, it will be a loss that we will of wished we didn't let happen. Cancel your streaming services and insist on physical media. So you OWN IT. I built my home theater, home media server (NAS) and got BW-16D1HT drives years back because I saw this trend trying to move everything to subscription/renting. I buy every physical copy I can find, be that DVD, BD or 4K. Even digitized VHS's that were never released on disc. Good video, more need to do this!
Unfortunately a lot of different industries are moving to the same path (like video games) and it's scary not feeling like you own the content you want to watch. I absolutely agree with your comment and I hope plenty of other people see the value in physical media as time goes on. Thanks for watching!
"You will own nothing and you will be happy." - The World Econonic Forum.
Well... Just rip the stream... and voila, you got your own copy.
Technically even with a disc you only own a license to watch it, in some places like the UK it's legal to create a back up for personal use however it's barely legally challenged elsewhere anyway. I don't like subscription based services as much as the next guy, but do we really expect everyone to be ripping all these discs and setting up a home theatre?
I've recently started buying (mostly) 4k blu-rays. Didn't buy or even watch movies for years. If you have one or two subsription services where you can get all you need at the quality you want that is fine and convenient, but that's hardly ever the case. The potential to be convenient if what you want is where you want when you want it is streaming's only really positive side IME, but it has tons of negatives compared to 4k blu-rays. I don't mind not owning TV series, which I mostly don't have time to watch multiple times anyway, but owning movies seems to be vastly superior to streaming for a number of reasons.
I'm rebuying all my childhood favourites on physical media because if I want to stream them they're usually behind a pay wall twice the price of a blu ray or DVD. We've sold our soul man
or UA-cam has a good amount of them for free, assuming you were born before the 2000's
learned that right click and unselect was an option brilliant as never realised after ripping thousands of discs
Wow. I still remember doing this to DVDs about 20 years ago. Good times.
DVD Shrink? I 'memba.
DVD Decrypter was king!
You noobs 🤓 I still remember using my Sound Blaster Live Gold software to rip CD-A’s to MP3… good times…
@@nathanddrews Yup.
I just to used ,any DVD , then I switched to DVD fab ,grate memories!
For anyone considering ripping 4K make sure you have a big enough HDD. A 1TB drive will fill up fast. Really nice instructive video.
I bought an Asus BW-16D1X-U external USB blu-ray drive last week for ripping 4K blu-rays and it's been fantastic. It rips 4K discs in about 30 minutes. Standard blu-rays in about 20m. I bought it used for $60 (free shipping) and flashed the firmware, then opened it up and moved the drive from its USB enclosure over to my desktop tower. It was a really cheap and easy way to get into blu-ray ripping. The speeds are great too.
Is the flashing process difficult?
I’d be interested to hear this too. I’m on a Mac (if that makes a difference).
@@markvandenberg4606 hey I actually ended up doing it and I’m on Mac. The forum post on MakeMKV’s website is mostly all that you need, but as much as the authors and other users claim it is, I found the instructions somewhat cryptic. For the LG model I bought I had to flash at least 3 different firmwares before actually getting the drive to rip 4K discs. Not to mention, the actual final firmware needed to make it work I had to dig a bit to find it.
I just bought the same drive but I have the patched firmware. Can you post a video or give instructions with a flasher and the correct firmware file?
You can open it up to put it in a normal 5.25 inch bay? Interesting!
I’ll also add I’ve been using the same Pioneer BD drive for over 3 years now, and it’s been amazing. Any problems I’ve had with it stem from software and not hardware. The fact that it doesn’t use a tray was my main reason for buying it.
Is it possible to use this Pioneer drive to play 4k blurays on the actual MacBook?
@@StingerFromAbove yes, but I believe you’re going to have to pay for an app that can do it. I’m not sure of any that are free. That’s why I don’t use it to watch 4K BR Discs. I have however used MakeMKV to rip 4K discs. I have a 2017 27” iMac and a 2019 16” MacBook Pro that I use it with.
I happened to buy this suggested drive on Amazon in February from the "Produplicator Store". It was $60 more than from the Pioneer store, but it did work as described. Thanks for helping me find a way to digitize our 4K Ultra HD movies!
Good to hear! I'm glad the video was helpful, thanks for watching :)
It is a small thing and not a major question, but this video was not only helpful, it was well done. It was clear, easy to follow, and not only answered my question. I learned a few things as well. Well well done!
Hey man thank you very much! I really appreciate it, glad the video was helpful :)
starting my 1st 4k rip right now. finally got everything setup: NAS with lots of space, bluray drive, etc. will see how this turns out. oddly enough, this makes me want to purchase physical movies again, which i havent done in years.
Welcome to the fold....good luck not buying more and diving deeper into the world of NAS....
Well, how has it been going?
@@deansmits006 got all my 4k blurays that i own ripped, slowly buying more as i catch them on sale at amazon. i got 3x 8tbs in my NAS, so 16tb usable space. down to 6tbs free, was looking at another 8tb on amazon this morning to fill the last bay of my NAS.
although, i had to reinstall windows on my PC, so i gotta reinstall makemkv and get the beta code again, but wont have to do that until i get my next 4k bluray
You really need to update this video and its description to let people know that the Pioneer BDR-XS07 doesn't work anymore due to 1.03 being what they ship out now. That drive currently can't even be flashed to work properly at all, so it's literally one of the main drives to avoid. You've got the Amazon link right at the top of the description without any warning that it should not be used. If you're not going to change the video itself, at least update the description with a clear warning. The fact you make commission off of that is even worse.
yo thanks for the warning
@@a_a1796 Yeah no problem. I unfortunately purchased one for Christmas, only to find it’s now useless for this purpose. I’m disappointed they haven’t updated the description on this video.
Also you can use Handbrake to reduce the file size after to save space if needed.
This is the info I was looking for. Thanks!
well i've tried it and thr free version only lets rip only 10 mins of a movie only:(
I have been using it for years,full videos.Maybe they changed it but I am using version 1.5.1 on Mac and I know it is in repositories on linux for free.@@azurekite3870
Handbrake is freeware@@azurekite3870
Very important if you don’t have a massive media server
I've been using MakeMKV for a long time and I must say this is a great intro video! You can also stream line the track selection by selection the preferred language (i assume English for most watching this video) under the preferences menu then the language tab. Happy ripping everyone!!!!
Thanks for sharing!
I still have all the DVD's I bought YEARS ago. And did the same with XBMC on my xbox. Still have about 3 of them OG units. My main reason for doing this back them was KIDS! My god, they would scratch up any Game disc or DVD movie title I had. At times, I owned 4-5 copies of a DVD or Games.
Putting them on a NAS or Windows SMB share saved me THOUSANDS of dollars! I would just rip the entire ISO and then set up the Scrapers.
But even I have to admit that doing this now is more just for the titles I really like to watch. And there are only a few of them on Blueray I care to watch these days as not much from Hollywood really gets me wanting to watch or ever watch it again. Then as the kid grew up? I really had no need to do this.
With Blurrays? I just have not bothered. Overtime? I really don't spend much time doing home theater.
And I have most of my stuff in storage now. The golden age of it is sort of lost on me as the kids grew up. And I don't have to worry about messed up or scratched discs like I use to, making the disc unplayable or unwatchable.
😂 let's not drop our guards, watch out for the grand kids
Awesome video . I have been doing this to Blu-rays and HDDVD discs . I need to get a 4k Blu-ray reader.
EXCELLENT and informative video. I had previously installed it, and it rips DVDs just fine, but after 3 blurays it wouldn't allow me to rip any more blurays. I thought I'd have to buy a key until I saw your video as to how to get the free key. Now it works on blurays and DVDs just fine. So a great bit THANK YOU!
Finally decided to buy make mkvs. I used it enough to justify the purchase.
Thank you. I am echoing so many comments here. Excellent tutorial, very well presented and easy to follow. I am waiting on delivery of the Pioneer drive and look forward to ripping my extensive movie library.
So I have registered MKV and bought a refurb pc for $150 and three external drives. All 3 drives can rip Blu-ray’s at the same time. I can only burn one disc using my Mac. All computers use same MKV license. Save all media to external drives which become my backups. I copy files to my NAS. All I was looking for is a drive to rip my 4K. Thanks for video and tips!
Just a quick pointer you need to flag the forced subs as well NAME = Forced and FLAG = df. Also VC1 codec does not work so you will have to convert the vc1 codec to a format plex likes. The only blurays I have trouble with are 3D blurays. Also check you disc as slight scratches or dirty disc will end in a failed rip or will not rip at all. And for tv series and film naming I use a programme called Filebot it has saved my countless hours renaming boxsets etc.
Could you give a more detailed description of the subtitle settings you've mentioned. I recently went through a lot of research to get forced subtitles to work correctly for me in Plex. I just want to make sure that your settings get included in my workflow, but I'm not sure where or how you're setting these values. Thanks in advance, and thanks for making this point. I don't think a lot of people know how to get forced subtitles to work correctly in Plex. ~Frank
I have problem with VC-1 codec a well….but it seems to be the client that most often doesn’t support them rather than the Plex server… I tried to use handbrake to converte to h.264 or h.265 but I don’t know how to do in order to avoid any video degradation and I just want to pass all the audio untouched. I don’t care about reducing file size….
@@yourpalfranc will at the weekend if I can
Filebot is a lifesaver for TV series!! I've been using it for about a year and it saves SO much time!!
@@yourpalfranc 12:29 the subtitles labeled (forced only) - click on that, then choose Properties. “FLAG” will = d for default, you want to add f next to d - as in “df” - so that
FLAG = df
This way your player gets “flagged” to play the forced subs. For some reason, d is not enough to flag the player. The df must be flagged to the player.
I learn today that I can unselect all audio fils in just 1 click, cool! Shame Dolby Vision disk can't be rip yet with MakeMKV 1.17.5. THX for the video.
great tutorial. used it for years and this is spot on for both Blu ray and 4k. only issue is subtitles not working all the time. Example Avengers. In the beginning when Natasha is held you dont get the standard English subtile. But on Inglorus Basterds you do get it.
Thanks for watching! Subtitles are a mixed bag with 4K unfortunately. I hope that by selecting all the English subtitles in the movie people will get all the data they need but it's hard to predict how the studio will format them on the disc. I appreciate the feedback! :)
@@TwoGuyzTech Though I use Mac, there is on older windows a download called ClownBD. It is a group of software (free) that does very well with subtitles if you make an effort. As forced subs can be a stream of its own or a subset of a stream, you can find which is which and flag it as forced. Something if you have time you may want to check out. Also, be aware that it uses a specific older version of Java.
There’s an app called subtitle edit that OCRs the subtitle file and saves it as a text file, which you then can add to your handbrake file. It can select multiple sub files, so you can get the standard subs, the foreign language bits, etc.
Love your detail! Keep it up! Great information also. Going to get the PIONEER BDR-XS07 also. If this has changed, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!
Thanks for watching, last time we heard an update about this, the BDR-XS07 drives being sold currently are not able to be patched. We made an updated guide for using an LG WH14NS40 drive in another video, but the MakeMKV forum post we linked should always have the most up-to-date information. Hope this helps!
Logan! Need to find the latest 4K RIPPER ! PLEASE let me know what you recommend. Can't find the MakeMKV link to the latest drive as of Jan/Feb 2025. Thanks
What is your advice on a NAS? Like Synology, but need to know which one with a couple SSD drives for it. Thanks again!
I did this for my 500+ collection of DVDs and bluray. I have backups of every file, so it doubles the storage needed - I don't want to have to rip 100s of movies again if a drive fails.
I'm not going to rip my 4K discs, as the file sizes are really big. I have a Panasonic 820 4K player for playback.
i have a registered version of MakeMKV and I have a question regarding the "cover.jpg" that shows at the bottom of the listing @10:32. If you include that file in your rip is it embedded in the final .MKV file? I use Plex as my media sever on my network so when I add the file to the server will the correct "cover" be displayed to choose from?
I think I will try and do this sometime next summer.
I bought the Pioneer several weeks ago, and I find it a great alternative to a standalone player. MadVR plays movies with outstanding quality.
Thanks for watching! We absolutely agree!!
Great guide. I found my old bluray drive the other week, unfortunately liteon drives don't seem to be listed as compatible :( guess I have to go buy a new bluray drive lol, after putting my old one in storage more than 10 years ago.
"You need physical blu rays to rip". Very informative. 😄 love the video! Thanks for the tips! I've had issues with mkv even on my dvds. Sometimes I get good rips, and sometimes I get ones that just skip.
Dirty discs
Who wants to watch 4K movies on a laptop, or a cellphone? 4K UHD movies (movies in general) are supposed to be viewed on a big screen TV or a projection screen.
@@slimdude2011 I know right? That’d be weird. So it’s a good thing I have a big screen and surround sound I watch them on.
(Btw read that in a totally sarcastic mind voice)
@@slimdude2011which is precisely why I rip the 4K movies to my media server then watch them on my big screen TV in the other room 🥰
@@riffdexother room?
I would like to mention. On Make MKV there is another option called Backup where you will have all the menus also installed. I hope you will try and comment on this option
I'm a first timer trying to figure out what that option is for.
Is it also possible to burn 4K HDR movies to a BDXL disc with this burning device? If so, does the 4K HDR effect stay the same or doesn't the BDXL disc support HDR image? And what about 120fps? Does the BDXL disc support this too? I really want to know.
And another question: which edit software program does support highest picture quality (4K HDR 120fps) to be burned on BDXL disc WITH the possibility of making a Blu-ray menu structure (START FILM, CHAPTERS etc.)? Does anyone know???
You can also set your language preferences so you don't unselect and choose your languge every time.
10:53 are you serious ? i spend so much time deselcting those manually on a lot of disc . now i know how to safe a lot of time
Thank you for the education and very well explained guide. And here I was thinking 4K was not rip-able yet.
Thank you for watching! I'm glad it was helpful :)
Question: I am able to rip 4K fine with DVDFab products, and select presets for size/quality I like at around 4 to 7 Gigs in size files. I know a little bit about codecs, selecting 2 pass, and adding my own language tracks to the DVDFab result using free software like MKVToolnix to add tracks, and AVidemux to synchronize audio if necessary for my nieces that speak Spanish. Should I stay like this, or would I get more benefits in size/quality if I nerd out on MKV forums, and learn more about messing with codecs, and adcanced re-encoding options?
You should consider not wasting your time reducing the quality of the 4k discs. Just rip them as movie-only at full quality as the best picture possible is the whole point of getting a UHD blu-ray. Otherwise you might as well just spend a lot less buying a code and do streaming 4k. HDD space is very cheap relative to the cost of the movies and ripping movie at full bitrate takes more like 10 minutes instead of hours.
@@curtisbmeThing is there's different reasons to wanting smaller files, if I'm watching on my phone or just want HDR without 40gb file I can only get that through UHD movies still.
@@sinnwalker You do that on the fly with something like Plex that can do real-time transcoding for the time you are watching on a lower end device, you don't do it by ruining the source.
Great tutorial, I’ve been ripping DVDs and Blu-rays for some time using Make MKV and using PLEX and an older PC to store my rips. I’ve never tried it with 4K Blu-ray. As I’ve never owned a 4K Blu-ray player I’ve never bought any UHD Blu-ray Discs. I’ve got a fairly new (2019) Pioneer drive in my PC so I’ve taken a risk and ordered a UHD disc to test it out. 🤞
How did it work out for you? I'll be trying this for the first time when mine arrives in the next couple days. I'm curious about the level of learning curve involved for someone with a basic understanding of PC's. I installed Make MKV, and purchased a 20Tb HDD, but I'm waiting on the Pioneer drive.
@@qua7771 it didn't work unfortunately. I'm now the owner of a 4K Bluray player😀
@@anthonychallis2472 Sorry to hear that. I may be too. We'll see.
@@anthonychallis2472What 4K drive did you buy?
@@ChrisWaters If you mean which player did I buy, it was a Sony UBP-X700 UHD BD Player, I picked this one as it also played SACDs as well & I do have a small collection of those discs. If you mean which drive I have in my PC it was a Pioneer BDR-212DBK, but the firmware was 1.03 which means it won’t work as a 4K disc ripper with MKV.
Great video! Absolutely love the wallpaper on your Dell laptop @ 1:20 - could you post a link? Thanks!
It's one of the built in wallpapers in Fedora Linux 37.
How can you get UHD Blueray to ripped faster? I'm using Leaw 14:37 o Professional 13 with the pioneer drive you recommended on my 2 year old computer. If I invest in an mini computer just for ripping UHD will this speed up the process. 2 hours for a movie is too long and I have 400 to ripped and im only up to 50😭
Here's another working link to the Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD 4K drive used in this video, works on both PC and Mac: amzn.to/3FgWyf0
It still does not work for DolbyVision Discs right. As the DolbyVision Metadata is not picked up by MKV yet. For now I guess Discs are still the way to go.
@@KING_DRANZER Thanks for watching - MakeMKV does properly rip Dolby Vision enhancement layer data and embeds it into the MKV using DV profile 7, which is not supported by the vast majority of players yet (which usually support DV profile 5, the Dolby Vision format used by most streaming services). So unless you have a player that can handle Dolby Vision in an MKV you will probably only get HDR10. But we still like to rip these movies in order to future-proof our library. Hope this helps :)
@@TwoGuyzTech Cool. So the newest iteration resolves that issue. Have not tried it and stayed away as it was not supporting it previously. I guess will have to give it a try.
I assuming its safe to buy the Pioneer BDRXS07TUHD but it has a 'T' (in the model name), an added dilema to my confusion to proceed. I suspect it covers Australian market, it's a better price than paying postage for the other.
Error 'Scsi error - ILLEGAL REQUEST:INVALID FIELD IN CDB' occurred while issuing SCSI command A40..002000800 to device 'SPTI:\Device\CdRom0'
help please
Thanks for the very clear video. Will ripping movies or music concert videos using MakeMKV bypass the region code and allow me to play back on my computer? I have a couple that are not USA concerts, and one of the DVDs is a PAL format. Will the PAL disc be able to play? Can I convert the files to MP4 and burn them to disc to play in my Sony 4K UHD Blu Ray DVD player? Thanks in advance for your response!
Thanks for watching! Yep this should work fine but we haven't tested DVD discs from other regions personally. 4K Blu-rays do not have any region code so they should also work perfectly. You can convert the resulting MKV with a software like Handbrake to get an MP4 and put it onto a disc if your player supports playing MP4 files from disc, though it might be easier just to put the MP4 file on a USB stick. Hope this helps!
I am using the Verbatim Slimline bluray burner which I can recommend. Apparently it comes in three different variants where only one of them reads 4K, otherwise they're all the same hardware except for what type of USB connection it depends on. It is very small and even fits into one of those CD carrying cases in fabric, if it is square shaped. The only downside I find is that it feels a bit fragile when it's open as it is not a laydown tray but rather a pinch-center arm that comes out and that feels a bit flimsy. Very cheap though, it's the best way to get into burning bluray backups in case you're stuck in the cloud or on external hard drives prone to mechanical failure or handling malpractice.
can you use it to rip blurays? also is the model Verbatim 43888?
@@hammerheadyak I have never tried but yes, it should be able. It's just about having the right software. I have the 43890 model which doesn't do 4K/UHD but does BDXL. It's the 43888 that does both.
Folks actually advise against buying slimline whatever brand burner because it is fragile. They seem to break a lot also.
@@fortynine3225 Good to know, and I'll keep that in mind. Still, it's conveniently small, it was cheap and seems to do the job. If the opposite is buying a chassis mounted drive then I'm out of luck anyway; my last tower was my XP computer and I have no intention of going back to them. As an entry model, it's still easy to recommend to newcomers since it does the deal and is fairly quiet since it only goes to 6x. I've had fat DVD drives that were insanely fast but could bring down the house walls by being so loud.
@@Henkibojj I was looking into that a week or so ago with folks on Forums advising strongly against buying a slim burner. I bought a OWC Mercury Pro, with being very fast and highly rated being a sales argument, for online HD movies and flac music burning on a disc (i do own lots of blu-rays and CDs but some stuff i like is not for sale that way). And i bough BD-R and M DISC BD-R (which is suppost to last decades). So it is not about ripping for me but putting data on.
Hello. I just came across this video. Thank you ufor posting. This video is now over 1 year old. Do you have a new DVD Burner to replace the Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD? I am planning to buy one soon. Thank you
Thanks for the video. Although I am quite familiar with MakeMKV, I was not aware of the "Expert mode" setting - seems useful and will certainly look into it next time I use MakeMKV. Couple questions regarding the license that you mentioned was purchased 12 yrs back 1) Is it still working on new installs of MakeMKV 2) Can this license be used on multiple devices? I use different computers (Intel NUC, 2011 Mac Mini, etc.) depending on where I am (home theater room, server room etc.) doing the ripping and wonder if the same license can be used on multiple devices or would I need to purchase separate licenses for each? Thanks. And keep up the great work! 👍
Thanks for watching! Glad it was helpful. Yep our old existing license still works on new installs and you can use it across as many devices as you want.
@@TwoGuyzTech Though if you use it a lot and having given him anything in 12 years, you should consider a donation to him by 'buying' the license again.
I own both a windows desktop and a MacBook Pro. With MKV on my Mac I ended up getting constant error messages in regards to permissions so I removed it from the Mac. Currently using mkv going through my collection of tv shows etc, doing the DVD’s at the moment until I purchase a blu ray.
What I don’t understand is how to make sure the rip has all of the audio formats. Some discs have selectable audio between Atmos, TrueHD, DTS:X etc. Also if the disc has Dolby Vision profile too, is it also part of the rip?
My question is does quality change or is it 1:1 my biggest issue is anything ripped in my experience looks worse than the Disc version
its 1.1 its just copies it
Do you have another blu-ray drive that you recommend for Mac? The pioneer that you use is no longer available at the Amazon store. Thanks.
THANK YOU for this video. I have the LG BH1640 that requires that flashing and other such. I am ordering TODAY another drive. I wanted to ask you if the Pioneer BDR-XS07S will work? It is USB C powered- UPDATE, I went ahead and ordered the same one in the video. I am hoping it is an older firmware. I am really frustrated with this. I just got a new mac mini m2 and have the NAS and I followed your steps to rip Aquaman ATMOS using my laptop Pioneer drive that shows the Libre functional. The MKV file was not recognized by Plex at all and when I play it in VLC I do not get ATMOS.
Hi,
How do I make sure that I maintain 4k stream with Direct Play after ripping and not compressing the file? Is there a way to do this with a Sony A80L?
Thanks for watching. Simply do not enable any forms of transcoding during playback. For example, use a DLNA server, or Direct Playback in Jellyfin if your client supports it. Hope this helps!
2:21 what does that mean "all of these drives need to be flashed before UHD reading/ripping".
Did you flash yours?
Thanks for watching! No, the Pioneer model we used did not need to be flashed but some internal drives do. Hope this helps.
@@TwoGuyzTech thanks but what is flashing? Downgrading.
Concise and easy to follow. Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
TY for this great information and video. My question has to do with mini dvd disks. My son had a number of homemade family mini dvds before his passing in 2013. Would it be possible to use your software to make digital copies of his mini dvds?
Thank you very much for watching! This is a tricky issue. Cameras that recorded to Mini DVDs usually required a step to "finalize" the disc, which would process the video so that the disc would be playable on a normal DVD player. So if you can play the Mini DVDs on a DVD player, your discs are finalized, which means MakeMKV should be able to read the video just fine, as long as you have a DVD drive in your PC that is capable of reading Mini DVDs. The Pioneer drive we demonstrated here will not accept Mini DVDs and could be damaged if you try to play one - we recommend looking for a DVD drive that has a tray that slides out and has a small circular recess shaped for Mini DVD discs. These can be found in a lot of older desktop PCs and some laptops.
If the disc was not finalized, you can still put it into a computer and see if there's any data that you can play inside the file structure of the disc. This is going to depend largely on the make and model of the camera, and we don't have experience with anything this old.
There may also be data recovery professionals in your area that you can contact as a last resort if you're not having luck with anything and you want to get as much of the video from the discs as possible. We hope you can get those videos back and wish you all the best - hope this comment helps.
@@TwoGuyzTech thank you. His camera is a Sony mini disk . I appreciate your help with this in trying to get this these videos to his kids. If you have any other ideas please let me know.
I'm pretty sure I recall setting up all of this in preferences when I RIP my SD DVDs. Is that not the same for any resolution DVD?
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What’s the benefit of ripping into a MKV file versus mounting ISO disc copies? I’m guessing ISO mounting is possible via a NAS these days?
Thanks for watching! ISO files can be nice if you want to perfectly preserve the entire disc including menus, but they do take up more space and cannot be streamed over applications like Plex.
Thanks for this helpful video! I want to ask if the home screen menu starts up where you can select the audio and video settings and play any extra features? Or does it go straight to the movie?
No you don't get that kind of ripping capabilities with MakeMKV, it just rips the movie or whatever video track you choose. In some cases you'll be able to see other video tracks like menu and extra features that you can rip separately if you need, but I doubt anyone's interested in having a separate non functioning menu video file. If you want to see the menu and/or play extra features of the movie, that's when you put the original disc in your player and watch that, once in your lifetime... ;)
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Are there any drawbacks with mkv playback? Any stutter or reading issues?
Our movies streamed from a Synology Nas to an Nvidia shield playback just like a 4k Blu-ray. Thanks for watching!
Would you recommend HDD or SSD to store the movies? I’m going to want to stream mine to a player over the network and I want to make sure not to lose any quality when watching my 4K movies
We recommend going with hard drives for the better price per terabyte and the movie playback will be exactly the same as SSD. Hope this helps.
@ thank you, I have like 700 4K blu rays so I need the space and don’t want to sacrifice quality lol
Hi, great tutoria,l thank you. One question: can you output disc back-ups as iso-files too with the makemkv software?
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do you ever show how to actually doing all this ? cause im having trouble figuring this all out
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Anyone who bought the pioneer drive and is having trouble ripping, as long as your firmware is before Dec 2022, such as version 1.02, you need a VPN to bypass the ISP geolock caused by the war so that makemkv can communicate with the server.
This did the trick for me. Hopefully it helps you too.
I was dabbling with 4k rips a couple years ago... and remember there being issues ripping the HDR/Dolby Vision layer of the movie. Has this been fixed?
Thanks for watching - MakeMKV does properly rip Dolby Vision enhancement layer data and embeds it into the MKV using DV profile 7, which is not supported by the vast majority of players yet (which usually support DV profile 5, the Dolby Vision format used by most streaming services). So unless you have a player that can handle Dolby Vision in an MKV you will probably only get HDR10. But we still like to rip these movies in order to future-proof our library. Hope this helps :)
@@TwoGuyzTech how do you know or find out if your player can handle Dolby Vision in an MKV ?
@@tomconnell7154 just check the technical specs of your player or test it in a store before buying one. That's what I did before buying a Zappiti Neo and it works great.
I've been ripping movies with MakeMKV and DVDFAB. The thing I've been wanting to do is combine 2 discs into one file. Like Zack Synder Justice League, extended versions of Lord of the rings and the hobbit.. Has anyone been able to do this?
Any suggestions on Windows software/programs to use for ripping DVD with multiple tv show episodes so each different show episode is its own file? Thanks
Good info, I've been using an internal Pioneer Bluray drive, never had a reason to upgrade to a 4K drive because I could never find a decent one. Also been using two other converters too, Aimersoft Video Converter Ultimate and Acrok Video Converter, though I have not tried them with 4K discs. Aimersoft has a lot of other tools and even rips UA-cam videos to your computer (and other video sites if they're supported) and Acrok is a good, lightweight converter, sometimes converts the occasional disc that Aimersoft didn't pick up. I shall add MakeMVK to my list now :D
I know the convenience of having everything in one place I get that. But I'm sure quality is affected a bit since you're moving those data now from your storage to your AVR just to stream it vs getting those same data directly from the disc itself via the 4K player. How much data is lost from this ripping/local streaming method?
Thanks for the video guys, it is very helpful.
Hey bud thanks for checking out the video! We appreciate it, hope you're doing well :)
@@TwoGuyzTech I am doing great thanks, I hope all is well in the TwoGuyzTech world also :).
Hey! I just bought a nas and used your video to help me with ripping my 4k UHD discs! Thank you so much. So I have a question. I used makemkv. Do they rip the Dolby vision as well? When I’m using Plex on my nvidia shield pro, Dolby vision doesn’t pop up..am I missing something?
Thanks for watching! MakeMKV does properly rip Dolby Vision enhancement layer data and embeds it into the MKV using DV profile 7, which is not supported by the vast majority of network players/Plex clients yet (which usually support DV profile 5, the Dolby Vision format used by most streaming services). So unless you have a player that can handle Dolby Vision in an MKV you will probably only get HDR10. But we still like to rip these movies in order to future-proof our library. Hope this helps :)
@@TwoGuyzTech ok, thanks!
who is better do it a mkv archive or play of iso, in a zidoo ?
Can you cofirm if this, Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD, can play read 4K UHD discs out of the box, did you have to downgrade or upgrade your firmware, or could you already play read 4K UHD disc out of the box, please let me know before i buy one. Thanks.
Thanks for watching! Can confirm as of the time of buying our drive, which wasn't that long ago, the Pioneer can rip 4K Blu-rays out of the box without any firmware upgrade/downgrade. And this should stay the same unless there's a change made by Pioneer. Hope this helps!
any advice for a DVD that has dozens of primary titles with different segment maps. I am assuming you need to find the correct one and this is done to make ripping more complex?
If you've finished this out, can you share what you've found?
Are we able to bring an MKV into an NLE like Adobe Premiere? Does Premiere recognize that type of file? I’m guessing not.
What's the best Nas to use? I also hàve a lot of movies and I still buy physical media cause with Vudu I don't like the idea of buying a movie and even though you bought it you don't actually own the copy I"ve been using Western Digital Elements 4tb external hard drive since 2018 I believe still works but I"ve been looking into these Nas drives if you have any recommendations I appreciate your input
Thanks for the informative video.
I tried ripping one of my blue ray disc using this software, but the output folder contains lots of .mkv files, is that usual or I'm missing something?
Will this Process Work for just Blu-Ray Disks ,I'm new to this I just want to make sure I'm not wasting my time I have no 4k stuff yet.. Thanks
Thanks for watching! Yes will work with DVDs, Blu-Ray and 4k discs.
I've been following along with every one that has their procedure for ripping blu Ray dish and I still get no disk after downloading the blu Ray disk. I'm using an ASUS blu ray player.
Be carful ripping the audio depending on what you are going to play the ripped movie on not all things support the audio tracks. Best to stick with the normal Dolby audio then the HD audio but if you are going to play back the ripped movie on your surround sound rip the HD audio
Also, what does it mean to "flash the firmware?" How do you know if you need to do this, and how do you do it? Obviously I am not a techie! Thanks.
Flashing the firmware is a process you'll have to do to some 4K drives if you want to be able to use it to rip 4K - basically it means to modify the code inside the drive using a special tool. With the drive we used though this is not necessary, it all works out of the box and makes things much more convenient. Hope this helps!
I had a lot of Blu-rays movies backups in my hard drives in 4K (.mkv) that I back up long time ago with the size of 21GB or less but with the VLC media player, I discover that I can convert all these media from 21 GB to 4 GB each with the same quility. On VLC media player, you just go on midia menu then convert/ save and than You chose the movie 21 GB for exemple to convert to .MP4 to another place in your computer. I save almost 1 Terabyte on this.
LOL - I learned by googling how to do this yesterday and today this pops in my feed. Dang you google! But this was helpful and I learned a couple things. this works GREAT on my Mac with the LG bluray I flashed.
Haha good to hear!! Google can be like that sometimes... a little scary. Thank you for watching!
Great video.
Is there a Linux tool for ripping a Bluray to an ISO (or some other disc image) where everything is included (menus, special features, etc.)?
brasero but only for DVD
You can use MAKEMKV, make a dump of the disc it wont be an ISO.
But it will be the AACS, BDMV and JAVA folders.
Then using a tool like "mkisofs" you can make an ISO of that output.
@@IIGrayfoxII interesting. thanks.
How do you rip the John Wick movies??? They have multiple anti-rip features
I as well have the same issue with the PIONEER-XS07UHD… Status: Possible, not yet enabled…
Can someone tell me if my ASUS BW-16D1X-U Blu-ray will work, and if not if I can make it work, or what Blu-ray burner would be recommended?
Thanks for watching! I tried looking up the ASUS BW-16D1X-U on the MakeMKV forums but unfortunately it sounds like that drive probably isn't going to work for 4K movies. We posted a link to a MakeMKV forum thread that has several different Blu-ray drives that are compatible with 4K ripping, and we can also highly recommend the Pioneer USB model that we linked in the description. Hope this helps!
I own a paid version of MakeMKV, if I buy the Pioneer Drive you recommended, will I have to make any changes to MakeMKV?
I also found my other blu-ray drive, and its an LG BP50NB40, and I saw on the MKV page that there is a blu-ray drive BP50NB40 that will work, but doesn't specifically say LG. Do you think whoever made the list just forgot to put LG on there, and how do you flash a drive, because I don't know how, and don't want to mess it up.
@@silverbulletfan We bought the Pioneer drive to bypass all of the patching so we're not sure about what the process would be for that specific model. Our drive worked right out of the box so if you can patch your drive you probably don't have to make any changes to the app. The MakeMKV forums are a great resource as well.
@@TwoGuyzTech if I get the Pioneer, I don't have to do anything then?
Does the firmware issue only apply for 4k or can it prevent 1080 blu ray and old Skool dvds as well?
I've been ripping 1080 Bluray and dvd for years with a ton of different drives with no problem. I've only had to jump through hoops for 4k.
Great video, clear and informative. Thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
Any info (and link) on what drives i can buy (Belgium or The Netherlands Sites) that are good to go (Firmware not updated or if possible to redo to older firmware)?
I just bought some 4K disks that may need a rip for safety.
And are there devices that can auto rip 4K (Like a NAS that can rip as well or something smaller)?
Than you for the guide, what linux disto are you running on the dell laptop? Also is that stock Gnome?
Thanks for watching! I'm running Fedora 37 with GNOME, everything is pretty much stock but I have installed a few extensions like Blur my Shell and gTile for usability. Hope this helps :)
Have yall looked at or reviewed a Zappiti player?
We have reached out to Zappiti but haven't heard back from them.
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So will this pioneer drive work out of the box, or do I need to flash it first?
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Is the Pioneer listed above still working with 4K rips? Latest firmware version listed on Amazon is 1.03.
How do I create a 4K Blu-ray? That would be a good video? What software authoring tools do I need?
Tha...nk You Sir for explain the paths for save data.
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Great tutorial! Thank you so much!!
i just installed, my old/ish Asus Laptop has a pioneer drive from factory. It said highly unlikely to work.
It worked lol
How did this work with Dolby vision / HDR10 / HDR10+ on the playback side?