Hi, I have a movie on my PC in the form of blu-ray with the folders and files of the disc. I moved the entire folder to my NAS where all my other movies are and did a refresh on Plex but it doesn’t see the movie. how do I get plex to see it?
Plex doesn’t deal with raw disc images (or backups).
Just run that file through MakeMKV – then you can add the actual movie as well as local extras (if you want) to Plex.
normally inside BDMV\STREAM there is one .m2ts file that has the entire movie. I just copy that file to my NAS and plex can play it. but in this case the movie is broken up into multiple .m2ts files. so how do I use makemkv? is there a document somewhere with instructions?
there’s a bunch of guides on their homepage.
Plex has a brief summary / some linked in a related support article
ok so I downloaded the newest makemkv app and fed it my blue-ray files and it created 5 .mkv files. 4 of them are the full movie about 51gb and the other one is just a short clip about 600mb. Why does it create all these files? what’s the difference between the 4 full movie files?
I can only guess…
Blu-Rays data is stored in many individual segments. Sometimes there’s different versions of the same movie where only single segments are different – e.g. many Pixar / Disney movies contain segments where text is showing on the video that’s available in different languages, such as a bunch of newspaper articles showing in “The Incredibles” (I’ve got the same for Star Wars where the movies are 100% the same except for the flying text banners at the beginning of each film which are available in different languages). MakeMKV will export all of those versions in a single file combining all applicable segments. This can result in multiple full-size copies that are almost the same.
Basically MakeMKV will export all the videos contained on your disc – the feature film, extras, FBI warnings, the disc’s menu background videos…
You can configure it to ignore videos below a certain threshold (e.g. everything <30 seconds)
TL;DR: if you don’t know which is which you’ll need to open each video to properly name it (or delete those you don’t want).
It takes practice.
You’ll learn quickly - out of necessity.
The names, or the embedded Title Fields, offer absolutely nothing in the way of identification as a rule. You need to look at the file’s chapter count, audio, subs or other info to make ‘an educated guess’ - or rip everything and look at it, like Tom says.
Eventually, you’ll learn what to get and what not to bother with.
In some cases there will be many, many identical files with only one having The Real Playlist. For those, you can usually visit the forums at MakeMKV and someone that has already figured it out before you will reveal the correct file.
It’s a process.
This is part of the process:
https://mkvtoolnix.download/downloads.html
After the ripping (of everything) and after the identification - you’re going to need something to discard all that crap you don’t need and keep what you do need. MKVToolNix is the tool for that. It’s also the tool that won’t let you make an MP4 out of it - so that embedded Title Field you may not have removed in MakeMKV doesn’t come back to haunt you.
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