MakeMKV now does 4k UHD rips

[Justanotherday]

Why convert? Plex plays .m2ts files. I'm playing one as I write this. An ISO file has to be mounted in order access the files. If it is a blue ray you have to open the the package which is in the ISO. Best to copy the specific tracks you want to disk so Plex can access them without having to do a mount.

Thanks for the info. A lot of the .m2ts files are within folders. Is that maybe why Plex cant play them because they are in subfolders?
The folder structure is as follows: "name of show">BDMV>STREAM>00000.m2ts
The Players that I have used in the past usually were refering to the Playlist file=00000.mpls
Hope I explained this correctly. Any ideas?
Thnx

 

[Cave Man]

Your m2ts files need to be named with the title of the movie before Plex can scrape them.

 

[Justanotherday]

Your m2ts files need to be named with the title of the movie before Plex can scrape them.

Thanks, but after renaming the both the .mlps and .m2ts files located in the subfolders, Plex still does not find them.

 

[Cave Man]

Are they within the folder that you defined as a Movies folder when you set up Plex the first time? If so, they should be scraped.

 

[Justanotherday]

Are they within the folder that you defined as a Movies folder when you set up Plex the first time? If so, they should be scraped.

They are.
"name of show">BDMV>STREAM>"name of show".m2ts - will not get scraped
"name of show">"name of show".m2ts - will get scraped
Seem as though it will not go deeper than the one subfolder of the defined movie folder.

 

[Rigby]

They are.
"name of show">BDMV>STREAM>"name of show".m2ts - will not get scraped
"name of show">"name of show".m2ts - will get scraped
Seem as though it will not go deeper than the one subfolder of the defined movie folder.

Generally it's a good idea to rename your files according to the customary conventions, e.g. described here:

https://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220687-naming-series-season-based-tv-shows/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200381023-naming-movie-files/

Other apps, such as e.g. Infuse, MrMC and Kodi will also understand these names. There are tools such as Filebot which can automate renaming many files in batches.

 

[Justanotherday]

Generally it's a good idea to rename your files according to the customary conventions, e.g. described here:

https://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200220687-naming-series-season-based-tv-shows/
https://support.plex.tv/articles/200381023-naming-movie-files/

Other apps, such as e.g. Infuse, MrMC and Kodi will also understand these names. There are tools such as Filebot which can automate renaming many files in batches.

Thanks for the info. This all makes sense as I'm familair with having to do this in the past with how other players recognize movies files. But for some reason even though the movie files are named appropriately, Plex will not find it more than one folder deep.

 

[HDFan]

"name of show">BDMV>STREAM>"name of show".m2ts - will not get scraped

That's because the bdmv "folder" is a package. To see the contents you have to open the package with a special procedure (right click in Finder). Plex doesn't know how to do that.

You have to move things out of a package into a regular folder for the file to be seen. I have some Folder/Folder/.m2ts files that are seen by Plex with no problem.

 

[Justanotherday]

Thanks,
So what of the many other .m2ts files? If I move the main movie file out of the STREAM subfolder of the BDMV folder will the main movie .m2ts file play correctly? The larger (main) movie .m2ts file does not need the other smaller .m2ts files? It doesn't reference them or even the .mpls file in the PLAYLIST folder? I mean with reference to PLEX of course.

 

[Audit13]

The playlist folders contains a BluRay's different playlists (extended vs non-extended version, special features, etc.) similar to a table of contents.

The MPLS file sets the order in which the m2ts files will be played for a specific feature (extended vs non-extended, etc.). Sometimes, the main movie consists of a single m2ts file. Other times, the main movie consists of several m2ts files.

I'm not familiar with Plex but Kodi doesn't need an MPLS file in a folder to play the m2ts file.

 

[priitv8]

Basically the biggest m2ts file contains the main feature in its entirety (all video, audio and subtitle tracks) and will play as such, with selectable audio and subtitles.
But because it does not contain much metadata, you won’t see for example language names assigned to tracks or chapters. These are kept in other filesin bdmv structure.
PS the ‘package’ deal is only a voodoo of Finder, in the filesystem its still just a folder.

 

[HDFan]

If you sort the stream folder in the package by size, normally the largest file is the main title. In some of my .m2ts files I do see the language subtitles in Plex:



so I guess I would say you might see the languages associated with the subtitles without any of the other support files on the disk.

My major problem is determining which audio track to use as Plex gives minimal information:



I drop the file into the MediaInfo app in order to determine which is the DTS-MA track:


so I know that audio track 2 is the high resolution one. I then add to the movie title name "T2" so I know which track to select in Plex. Awkward. Maybe someone else has a better way.

Ah, I see the 3 dot (more) option on the movie info page (in the Plex web app on my server) has the information.

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[bbednarz]

What is the typical file size for one of these? I've done blu-rays and those come out to between 20 and 50GB per movie. I have to imagine these are at least double the size.

 

[priitv8]

What is the typical file size for one of these? I've done blu-rays and those come out to between 20 and 50GB per movie. I have to imagine these are at least double the size.

Nope. They use more efficient H.265 aka HEVC as video codec, so the size is not plain double. UHD movies weigh between 50 and 80GB in size. The ones with additional Dolby Vision stream and more audio languages end up in that upper range.
Simple HDR10 with a single TrueHD Atmos track can well be around 50GB.

 

[bbednarz]

Nope. They use more efficient H.265 aka HEVC as video codec, so the size is not plain double. UHD movies weigh between 50 and 80GB in size. The ones with additional Dolby Vision stream and more audio languages end up in that upper range.
Simple HDR10 with a single TrueHD Atmos track can well be around 50GB.

Interesting, that's not as bad as I was thinking then. I need to find a drive that's compatible so I can try this out.

 

[priitv8]

Interesting, that's not as bad as I was thinking then. I need to find a drive that's compatible so I can try this out.

The only problem at this very moment is, that it seems to be impossible to re-mux these m2ts files to remove excessive language ballast. Tried and trusted TsMuxeR has not been updated in years, so it handles the HEVC stream very badly (result is unusable).
Only way to get a smaller repack is to mux into MKV. For me it is also a dead end as my equipment does not play TrueHD Atmos sound from MKVs.