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Blu-Ray ISO to MP4
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Handbrake will do it, but make sure you check the large file size option. Regular MP4s cannot be larger than 4gb and bluerays will compress to more than that.
Not always. I have a few Bluray encodes at 720p using constant quality at RF20 that are less than 4GB in size. The last Harry Potter movie is one that stands out to me as the 720p encode ended up smaller than the 480p Digital Copy included by the studio.
That said, most devices can deal with 64-bit MP4 files nowadays, so I'd just leave "Large File Size" checked just in case.
As far as I know Handbrake wont open an ISO.
Best bet is to mount the ISO using DEAMON tools lite or Virtual Clone Disk then use MakeMKV to extract the main movie to a mkv file then use Handbrake to convert the mkv to an mp4.
I use the 64 bit version of handbrake and it works with isos just fine, if it is already on the harddrive as an iso. As roidy says, MakeMKV can extract from the actual disk if you are ripping from the disk and need to extract, etc..
As long as the ISO contains a format hb can read ... hb can open right from the ISO. Afaik HB has read dvd iso's since almost the beginning.
Us poor Windows users don't get a 64bit version or the ability to open ISO's directly
edit:- Handbrake wont open any of my ISO's made with AnyDVD.
edit:- Handbrake wont open any of my ISO's made with AnyDVD.
Scratch that, just tried one of the new nightly's and it works fine. Just out of interest does it handle Blu-ray ISO's?
Yes I have encoded some blu-ray iso's in handbrake, but they were already ripped to the harddrive as an image. Being such a mac person, I don't even have a blue ray player, but being a real movie buff I have bought a few titles in blueray and borrowed a windows laptop to rip the iso image to disk.
Thanks, all we need now is for Handbrake to support PGS sup subtitles and the whole process would be perfect
Use the video file option to load the ISO. Also get one of the new nightly versions of Handbrake, much faster and better quality than 0.9.4
http://build.handbrake.fr/
http://build.handbrake.fr/
HandBrake does not currently understand the Bluray disc structure, so you'll have to know which file contains the feature movie. This is further complicated by the fact that movies can be split between multiple files (although this appears to becoming a rarer occurrence). This also means that you won't have subtitles (which can be an issue for a few discs that use subtitle tracks for forced subtitles), or chapters.
I suspect the necessary support will eventually be added to Handbrake, but the developers have other commitments that take a lot of their "free" time. Here are a couple threads on the Handbrake forums that deal with encoding from Bluray/HDDVD and the forced subtitle issue.
http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=9258
http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16784
I suspect the necessary support will eventually be added to Handbrake, but the developers have other commitments that take a lot of their "free" time. Here are a couple threads on the Handbrake forums that deal with encoding from Bluray/HDDVD and the forced subtitle issue.
http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=9258
http://forum.handbrake.fr/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=16784
I'll check it out. Ripbot seems to work pretty well if anyone is looking for another option.
ISO to mp4 with Handbrake
Used Handbrake and tried to load in an ISO but I got an unreconizable format message. Got this on several Bluray ISOs.
Used Handbrake and tried to load in an ISO but I got an unreconizable format message. Got this on several Bluray ISOs.
Depends on how the BluRay was ripped. It has to be decrypted during the rip. HB won't do that. Then you have to mount the ISO. One it is mounted as a virtual BluRay, HB can read it. Windows 7 requires software for this.