Fight Club 10th Anniversary Edition

[umlout]

Hi,

I am failing to create a rip of Fight Club 10th Anniversary edition (Blu-Ray)
It is Region A,B and C and was purchased in the UK

AnyDVD HD version 7.0.4.2

The trial version of PowerDVD plays the move OK, but using VLC to play the biggest m2ts file (which appears to be the feature) in the STREAM directory plays a few snatches of audio with plenty of pops and distortion, and it probably plays one frame in every couple of hundred with a lot of blocking and distortion. No error is reported.

Ripping with handbrake 0.9.6 creates a 6Gbyte file that doesn't play in any media player I have tried.

My Drive is a LG iHBS112

I have asked a friend to try playing/ripping it with a registered copy of AnyDVD HD with similar results.

Log file should be attached.

Regards,

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umlout

[FurryGuy]

Try using AnyDVD's built in ripper by "Ripping to Image". "Mount" the image using virtual drive software (the free Virtual CloneDrive works wonders for that). Does the image play properly?

If it does then AnyDVD did its job correctly and the problem can be tracked down to how you are ripping using HandBrake. If it doesn't play properly posting a log file from the BD in question (right click the red fox icon in the notification area to get the AnyDVD menu for log file creation) will go a long way to tracking down what the problem with AnyDVD might be.

[James]

Originally Posted by FurryGuy

Try using AnyDVD's built in ripper by "Ripping to Image". "Mount" the image using virtual drive software (the free Virtual CloneDrive works wonders for that). Does the image play properly?

If it does then AnyDVD did its job correctly and the problem can be tracked down to how you are ripping using HandBrake. If it doesn't play properly posting a log file from the BD in question (right click the red fox icon in the notification area to get the AnyDVD menu for log file creation) will go a long way to tracking down what the problem with AnyDVD might be.

This isn't an AnyDVD problem, I don't know why "ripping" will help at all.

[Jeff R 1]

Originally Posted by umlout

Hi,
The trial version of PowerDVD plays the move OK, but using VLC to play the biggest m2ts file (which appears to be the feature) in the STREAM directory plays a few snatches of audio with plenty of pops and distortion, and it probably plays one frame in every couple of hundred with a lot of blocking and distortion.

You may have to spend some money on a descent Blu-ray player. If Power DVD suits your needs, then make sure and test it well.
Personally I use TMT 5 and that works for me, but Power DVD was a disaster in my case.
You could also give DAPlayer a try if you haven't already done so, but don't expect any miracles from that either.

http://digiarty.com/

[umlout]

Originally Posted by James

This isn't an AnyDVD problem, I don't know why "ripping" will help at all.

Using VLC to view the contents of the .m2ts file to verify the content is unencrypted, then using handbrake to decode the chapter structure and re-encode to a different codec suite has served me well with a number of bluray disks.

The corruption I described with vlc is similar to that I see with DVD .VOB files that are not properly decrypted.

[umlout]

Originally Posted by FurryGuy

Try using AnyDVD's built in ripper by "Ripping to Image". "Mount" the image using virtual drive software (the free Virtual CloneDrive works wonders for that). Does the image play properly?

If it does then AnyDVD did its job correctly and the problem can be tracked down to how you are ripping using HandBrake. If it doesn't play properly posting a log file from the BD in question (right click the red fox icon in the notification area to get the AnyDVD menu for log file creation) will go a long way to tracking down what the problem with AnyDVD might be.

Doing this did not improve anything. I get the exact same behaviour from the virtual image and am still not able to rip (or view) the movie.

[Peer]

Originally Posted by umlout

The corruption I described with vlc is similar to that I see with DVD .VOB files that are not properly decrypted.

You can't simply pass that logic on to Blu-ray discs.
VLC is known to fail with a number of properly decrypted BDs, that play fine with another player (the latter being proof that the decryption is ok, I think I don't need to point that out, as you managed to play the disc with PDVD).

With Blu-ray we now have three competing codecs (MPEG2, AVC and VC-1).
VC-1 and especially AVC have dozens of different options for encoding (things were VERY simple with DVDs).

VLC can't handle some of those.

[umlout]

Originally Posted by Peer

You can't simply pass that logic on to Blu-ray discs.
VLC is known to fail with a number of properly decrypted BDs, that play fine with another player (the latter being proof that the decryption is ok, I think I don't need to point that out, as you managed to play the disc with PDVD).

With Blu-ray we now have three competing codecs (MPEG2, AVC and VC-1).
VC-1 and especially AVC have dozens of different options for encoding (things were VERY simple with DVDs).

VLC can't handle some of those.

You are quite right. I was wrong. Sorry for spurning your software. AnyDVD HD had properly decrypted the disc contents. It turns out where vlc is not able to play the file, ffmpeg was perfectly capable.

My use of PDVD was to ascertain that my hardware (drive and disc) were fine. I don't know if it identifies whether the contents is encrypted or not. PDVD is somewhat bloated for my tastes though, and seems to cost almost as much as a stand-alone player so I'm not going to get a copy.

I am still learning this, I still only have a handful of bluray discs, and had not encountered any issues with the others.

Thanks for your help.