Movie Only Copy Including Menus

[mike_r]

v0.41 exe only
v0.41 ZIP full package

Here's the dilemour: You've got a film that you want to backup onto a BD-R. The total disk is say 30gb and you know you can shave off some extras, but which ones?

I had this problem this week. I wanted to copy '"Where The Wild Things Are" for the kids. The ISO is 29.4gb and the movie only with Clown_BD is about 15gb. Seems a shame to loose the menus and have so much free space left on the BD-R. The only solution I could find was BDInfo / BDEdit to find the menus and simply a bit of trial and error. Not really a good solution.

I've knocked up a little app called Clown_BD BD Copier for fun (or a version with Mplayer & tsMuxeR too for previews). It's fairly rough just now, no language settings, no context help or configuration so far. Basically you need AnyDVD to decrypt and ImgBurn installed to create your ISO (thanks to LightningUK for the support in creating the IBB file).

So open your BD location:



and let the application do the rest. It'll automatically select:

. all menus (they're in BOLD & at the top) so you don't accidentally delselect them
. All streams over 60 mins (ie probably the main feature)

Exceptions: If the size of the stream exceeds 23.8gb then it will not be automatically selected, or if the cumulated size exceeds 23.8gb.

Now press the ImgBurn button which starts ImgBurn. Now you can save your ISO to wherever you need it. Mount the ISO with Virtual Clone Drive and test-drive with PowerDVD. If it works OK, then you can burn it. My PS3 doesn't care if you play extras and the file is not there. It just skips it. Perhaps other machines will bork. Who knows.

Here's another example from Wikie



If you select too much then you'll see the bar is red:



I can't think of anything more to add, but please let me know if you have any questions (or bug reports )

Update

Of course there is no transcoding, remuxing demuxing. It's a 1:1 copy less the 'extras'

[Racem22]

Thats awesome man. This will help out on many occasions I'm sure. Thank you for the chance to use it! Will let you know about any bugs or the like.

[mike_r]

There aren't any bugs, just untested scenarios

It does work, but I've not tested for example what happens when ImgBurn is not installed or the .IBB file is not associated with anything. That's not my problem if someone tries to break the software then they probably can do it.

Obviously movies where the main feature alone is over 23.8gb then this utility is useless.

There are a few features that could be usefull:

For example I noticed last night with Slumdog Millionaire (German version). The main movie is 2x on the disk, for some reason there are about 6 playlists for each of the main movies. Unselecting 1 of the playlists could give you a hint that that .m2ts is also in XYZ also.

Another is some playlists containt the same (say 60x in mpls, 2 minute long, 1gb in size) .m2ts. BDInfo shows this as like 2:00 hours long and 60gb in size. My program will also show 2:00 hours but only 1gb. I think it's best if I also correct the time too to 2 mins.

Somehow auto selecting by user options. Maybe few a sliders with select all under X seconds and over y seconds, similarly under x byte and over y bytes. Maybe based on language too? Select only tracks with an "eng" stream.

Possible a preview of the video. This would have to rely on an external video renderer like mplayer.

[mike_r]

v0.02b (2010-05-09)
. Improve I/O on building IBB file
. Improved total time calculate.
  eg Where an MPLS has multiple times the same M2TS:
  Where The Wild Things Are
  00120.mpls has 99x 00000.M2TS @ 169,371,648 bytes duration 00:05:52.
  Before change showed this as 16,767,793,152 bytes duration 04:45:05.
. Fixed small display bug on menu only playlists
. Added tooltips for treeview
. Highlight likely main movie candidate
. Imporoved selecting less than 23.8gb
. Now has an INI file so the users can configure auto select for MAX & MIN
  stream sizes based in seconds (eg 3600 = 1hour)

v0.01b (2010-05-08)
. Initial Version

[mike_r]

Originally Posted by mike_r

Another is some playlists containt the same (say 60x in mpls, 2 minute long, 1gb in size) .m2ts. BDInfo shows this as like 2:00 hours long and 60gb in size. My program will also show 2:00 hours but only 1gb. I think it's best if I also correct the time too to 2 mins.

This is a real example. Horton Hears a Who (German Version). 00105.MPLS show as 02:36:47 @ 22,789,576,704 as it's got 00147.m2ts many times in the clip.

BDInfo



Clown_BD BD Copier

[mike_r]

v0.03b (2010-05-10)
. Incorportated Preview Funtion.
  Make Sure MPlayer location is correctly specified in .INI file
  Right Click On Tree View Item To Get a Preview Of the .M2TS

[-Jim-]

Mike,

This looks interesting. Thanks for posting it.

I did try ClownBD some months ago a couple times and left it because it didn't allow you to maintain Menus.

I keep thinking the Brain Trust @ SlySoft (or Olie) will release a commercial version (CloneBD anyone?) that will do this in a simple format like their other packages. I see DVDFab is getting closer with every release but I prefer a Slysoft package.

I really want to back up a dozen or so titles so I can take 'em to the Cabin this summer, and let the kids play them there and not worry if they get damaged. All they want is AC3, subtitles, & Menus along with the main movie (On a BD-R25).

I'll check out your package and see if I can learn enough to make it work. Thanks again for working on it.

[mike_r]

v0.08 (2010-05-15)
. Improved MPlayer Integration.
. Enlarged Preview Window.
. Enhanced Performance.
. Use VOLUME LABLE To Create Temp Directory & .IBB File.
. New Build To Cater For MPlayer x32.
. This Version Tested on Win7 x64 & XP x32 Bits.
. Automatically Select 1st Loaded Optical Disk On Startup

Special Note
------------

Delete you old .INI file 1st use.

If you experience problems with MPlayer (like no picture). Try removing
this text from the .INI file:

-vo gl:yuv=2:rectangle=2:force-pbo:ati-hack -dr -noslices

[mike_r]

v0.10 (2010-05-15)
. Incorrectly Displaying Number Of Chapters
. Now show Chapter Details In Info Window When Playing
. Parse All Source Directories & Create Them In Destination Even If Empty
. Small Bug When Clicking ImgBurn Button Before Clicking On Treeview
. Fully Scalable Window
. Improved Creation Of MPLS

New version uploaded. Changelog is not complete (left it at work), but some good improvements.

Delete your INI and let the program create it again. Mplayer now works fine in both Win7 & XP without needing to change INI manually.

Enjoy.

[mike_r]

This should be considered as BETA, as I've only done 2 titles:

Hannah Montanna (normal)
Monsters Inc (seamless branching)

to test. Worked ok for me.

v0.13 (2010-06-01)
. Small bug when some M2TS streams were missing
. A Rather Crude tsMuxeR Batch Mode For ReMuxing The Entire Disk
  It Works, But Perhaps The Interface Needs To Be Enriched. Select tsMuxeR In
  The Dropdown To Build .META and .BAT file.

Delete your .INI file 1st.