@archer75 said:
Ripping movies with DRM is super easy.
Except when there are 800 varations of the same movie on the disc, which is more and more commenly used.
And you want 720p downloads but complain netflix is poor quality?
No one is talking about 720p downloads but you.
Netflix quality is pretty damn good. Maybe not bluray exactly but certainly better than 720p. Looks great even on my new LG OLED. Unless your have internet issues resulting in a lower bitrate?
Maybe to your preferences. There’s waaaaaaaaaay more to a digital movie than resolution, and there’s a HUGE quality difference between a Blu-ray movie and a Netflix movie. 50/50 Mbit fiber here, so bandwidth is not an issue.
You don’t need to use subler to pull subs. Makemkv can do that and you are already using that to rip. I then process in handbrake and burn subs into the image so I don’t have to mess with subtitle files. Though if I needed the file I could just merge it into the MKV easy enough.
Some of us don’t want hardcoded subtitles since we switch between subtitles and don’t want non-scaleable ■■■■■■ looking subtitles that change from movie to movie. So yes, we do need Subler. PGS files are images, and not text strings.
Even with tons of variations on the same disc it’s still easy to find the right one. There are many methods to do so.
You were talking about 720p in your original post. Netflix is certainly better. I’m watching on a LG 4k OLED w/dolby vision and the quality is pretty damn good. No, not bluray but certainly better than any 720p stream/download/rip you’re going to find. Yes, there is way more to a movie than resolution. I’ve been ripping and encoding movies for more than a decade so I am well aware.
I used AnDVD HD but they fucked their customers so I moved to MakeMKV which is even better (and cheaper). Both tools are evading the copy protection mechanism and thus are against the law (nearly worldwide).
I can only speak for Germany now but as long as you don’t sell or offer the ripped Blu-rays for download they (the content mafia, police, etc.) will ignore you. If you give friends access to your Plex you should be careful who you give access. Some people like to turn into assholes sometimes and tell “them” that you shared a bunch load of movies.
I have experimented with encoding on my imac quite awhile ago but it is dead now. I’ve never ripped on it as I didn’t have an external Bluray drive for it. So I don’t have any info on how to do that on mac. Sorry.
As far as buying or renting digital movies I hear that Fandango is the way to go. They have the highest bitrates out of any of the services. I read that off a forum post on avsforum from someone who has equipment to measure the bitrate of streaming services.
@“T’hain Esh Kelch” said:
I just got the cheapest Blu-ray drive I could find on Amazon, and that’s 3 years ago soon, and that has been working just fine.
Yep… two years ago for me and it was 30 bucks. I think they were giving a free one away at WalMart if you buy a sack of underwear.
I know this is an old post. But I have a tivo ive been using to record and transfer movies to my PC. No problems at all. full HD no copyright. Except HBO they are the only movie channel that has copyright. So i can not transfer them to my PC.
@mkstretch said:
I know this is an old post. But I have a tivo ive been using to record and transfer movies to my PC. No problems at all. full HD no copyright. Except HBO they are the only movie channel that has copyright. So i can not transfer them to my PC.
I’d prefer not to have heavily compressed footage in my library - And live broadcast footage is exactly that.
@atrus said:
T’hain Esh Kelch wrote on December 12 2013, 11:23 AM: »
Yeah, currently that is also what I do.
But I have two issues here: 1. it is much quicker, and easier, to download the movies online for free; and 2. I’ve had very bad success with ripping Blurays due to DRM, so it is not really worth it for me.
Movies Anywhere is a pretty good service, easy to use and quality is pretty good. I have two problems with it:
Not all studios participate, Paramount, Lionsgate and MGM…hopefully that changes in the future
I wish this would integrate into Plex somehow, even if it was just a passthrough, where you log in with MoviesAnywhere credentials…just want one place for ALL my movies…I’m very close but not quite there
