Ripping Blu Rays Problems

[NiftyMist]

Hello LTT Community!  So I have recently acquired a blu ray/dvd combo drive for my PC.  $25.00 open box price at MicroCenter  .  So I went ahead a started ripping my blu ray collection to my external hard drive in preparation for my FreeNas Server build that is coming up in the next few week.  I had already done all of my DVDs months earlier using MakeMKV to make an .mkv file.  Then using Hand Break to convert into .mp4 files for storage.  I've done 4 blu rays with no problems.  But now I'm ripping my Star Wars complete saga blu rays.  Episode I and II went fine.  I got the .mp4 files to play.  But when I've completed Episodes III and IV I got an error that says the file are corrupt when I try to play them to make sure they are working.  The .mkv files are working fine.  I'm just having the issue when I convert it to the .mp4 with Hand Break.  Am I'm doing something wrong here or are there any fixes to this issue?  

 

Thanks for the input!! 

[bobhays]

I'm not great with handbrake but I had similar issues before but instead of corrupt the files just wouldnt play. Try changing the encoding options. I suggest using a small clip so that it encodes quickly and you can easily figure out which settings work.

 

EDIT: I'm also planning on ripping some blu-rays. I just did 1 of harry potter and it was around 20 gigs. How much space do you save converting to mp3?

[dalekphalm]

I'm not great with handbrake but I had similar issues before but instead of corrupt the files just wouldnt play. Try changing the encoding options. I suggest using a small clip so that it encodes quickly and you can easily figure out which settings work.

 

EDIT: I'm also planning on ripping some blu-rays. I just did 1 of harry potter and it was around 20 gigs. How much space do you save converting to MP4?

The amount of space you save directly relates to what quality settings you choose. Using a RF setting of 18 (Almost indistinguishable from the uncompressed MKV blu-ray rip) will usually save you 6GB to 10GB. Most of my Blu-ray rips are around 10-12GB in size after compressing them in Handbrake.

 

You can be more aggressive with the compression for significant data savings, but it's entirely up to you how much quality you want to sacrifice. You could shrink the files down to crazy small amounts, like as small as 2GB. For me, I prefer quality over small file size.

 

@NiftyMist, try adjusting the encoding settings. Can you post a screen shot or two of the settings you use in Handbrake? Personally, I use the MKV container for the final product, over MP4 (MKV supports a few more bells and whistles), but it's a minor difference in the end.

[NiftyMist]

I'm not great with handbrake but I had similar issues before but instead of corrupt the files just wouldnt play. Try changing the encoding options. I suggest using a small clip so that it encodes quickly and you can easily figure out which settings work.

 

EDIT: I'm also planning on ripping some blu-rays. I just did 1 of harry potter and it was around 20 gigs. How much space do you save converting to mp3?

I'm going form about 40 GB in Star Wars Episode I to a converted .mp4 3.5 GB file.

 

The amount of space you save directly relates to what quality settings you choose. Using a RF setting of 18 (Almost indistinguishable from the uncompressed MKV blu-ray rip) will usually save you 6GB to 10GB. Most of my Blu-ray rips are around 10-12GB in size after compressing them in Handbrake.

 

You can be more aggressive with the compression for significant data savings, but it's entirely up to you how much quality you want to sacrifice. You could shrink the files down to crazy small amounts, like as small as 2GB. For me, I prefer quality over small file size.

 

@NiftyMist, try adjusting the encoding settings. Can you post a screen shot or two of the settings you use in Handbrake? Personally, I use the MKV container for the final product, over MP4 (MKV supports a few more bells and whistles), but it's a minor difference in the end.

I think I'm going to wait until I get my FreeNas up and running and keep .mkv files.  I have noticed a quality difference.  I'm planning a build that will have 6 1TB drives in ZFS Raid-Z2 for an effective Storage space of 4 TB with 2 drive for redundancy.  I should have more than enough space for the for see-able future for movies and just about everything thing else I store.

[bobhays]

 

Snip, wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to get 3 2tb's and set up a raid 5 (or the ZFS equivalent). Just wondering.

 

EDIT: it would also let you expand more in the future.

[NiftyMist]

Snip, wouldn't it be a lot cheaper to get 3 2tb's and set up a raid 5 (or the ZFS equivalent). Just wondering.

 

EDIT: it would also let you expand more in the future.

What should I do with the 2 1tb drives I have now then?

[bobhays]

What should I do with the 2 1tb drives I have now then?

well I guess you could just use those and add 2x2tb (check if that works with the zfs raid you were talking about)

[dalekphalm]

well I guess you could just use those and add 2x2tb (check if that works with the zfs raid you were talking about)

@NiftyMist Since you already have 2 of the 1TB drives, doing a 6-disk RAIDZ2 array is totally fine.

 

However, @bobhays is correct, you should be able to "nest" RAID arrays using ZFS. It's certainly more complicated, but should still work.

 

Basically, it would work as follows:

your 2x 1TB drives would be created into a "Striped vdev" (ZFS equivalent of RAID0). This would then appear as a 2TB volume.

 

You can then take this 2TB volume (comprised of 2x 1TB drives) and use it in a RAIDZ array with whatever number of native 2TB drives you would like.

 

The second array (RAIDZ) would just treat your 2x 1TB drives as a single 2TB drive, no different from the other ones.

 

Obviously this does cause potential issues, such as more points of failure, and a more complex rebuild cycle if one of the 1TB drives failed (You'd first have to reconstruct the RAID0 array, then rebuild the RAIDZ array from parity).

 

If you decide to use the 2x 1TB drives in this manner, I would highly suggest building a RAIDZ2 array, with 2 parity disks, simply to help offset the increased risk of failure.

[othertomperson]

If you're building a NAS for this I would go more HDDs over more compression. I say would, that's what I am doing.

[dalekphalm]

If you're building a NAS for this I would go more HDDs over more compression. I say would, that's what I am doing.

I agree. I'm thinking of re-ripping all my Blu-Rays into MKV uncompressed. I have the HDD space, and plan on expanding more eventually anyway.

[techguru]

you already posted this problem...and we already answered it

it was probably a problem with the drm on the BD