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Makemkv bluray to DVD iso?

ivwshane

ivwshane

Lifer
I store my blurays and dvd's on my media server in ISO format to be watched anywhere. My blurays are taking up a lot of space even though I use makemkv to rip the main movie and then I use clownbd to turn it into an ISO for my media players to play. Some of my bluray movies aren't really bluray worthy and I wouldn't mind if they were converted to DVD ISO format.

My question is; what can I use to convert movie only bluray iso's to DVD iso's? Copy protection has been removed and I would prefer any free solution.

On a side note I use anydvd with DVD shrink for my dvd's.
 
If movie-only, why iso?

This would be a dirt simple fix otherwise. Your files are also uncompressed. Keeping full resolution and audio, you could still stand to save ~50% just by running the things through handbrake. Going down to 720p will save you around 80% of the file size.

I just ripped Pacific Rim and it went from a 35 GB file to a 4.85 GB file after scaling down to 720p and converting with handbrake.
 
DVD format is pretty much obsolete these days. It's got poor compression, poor resolution and a poor feature set compared to more modern file formats.

Much better to use a high quality compression tool (like handbrake) to reduce resolution to 720p (which is a good compromise) and encode with a state-of-the-art CODEC such as H.264 while saving in a flexible file format such as MKV. You can retain all the features, such as subtitles, multiple audio tracks, if you want. And you'll get a better quality result with a smaller file size.

The only reason to use DVD ISOs is if you want to keep the menu structure - but blu-ray menus are so much more complex than DVD menus, that they aren't sensibly convertible. Plus the whole point of makemkv is to strip all that stuff out, leaving you with just the main video file.
 
I'll look into handbrake.

I like iso's because I know they will be guaranteed to be played on any system (worse case scenario is that I just burn the DVD).

When I back up DVDs I only back up the main movie anyway and I do not change any compression settings which makes back ups a relatively quick process.
 
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