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What format do Blu-Rays get ripped to?

i would think it all depends what you use to rip to a file and what application you intend to use for playing the rip.
 
"Blu-Ray" video can be a bunch of different stuff. I think the best overall description would be to call it 'mpeg' with all the different compression tech and advancements that goes along with it.

Blu-Ray is really just a high-capacity storage medium. I can't recall the upper limit but I think the theoretical capacity is in excess of 100Gb.

That high capacity allows mpeg2/4 video to be streamed at a higher bitrate and greater definition despite whatever compression tech is utilized.

Here is the Wiki on the Blu-Ray '.m2ts' container.

The M2TS container format used on Blu-ray discs can contain one of the three mandatory supported video compression formats MPEG-2 Part 2, H.264/MPEG-4 AVC or SMPTE VC-1 and audio compression formats such as Dolby Digital, DTS or uncompressed Linear PCM. Optionally supported audio formats are Dolby Digital Plus, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio and Dolby Lossless.

The M2TS container format used on AVCHD equipment is more restricted and can contain only H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video compression and Dolby Digital (AC-3) audio compression or uncompressed LPCM audio.
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if you just rip as is to your hard drive, then it'll be in a m2ts container and the video will be AVC, VC-1 or mpeg 2 for the old ones. the only diff will be that it'll be decrypted.

if you use megui and eac3to then you can extract the movie only and keep the video and audio as is but in either the same m2ts container, or a matroska container.

if you re-encode then it'll be whatever you choose. scene rips are to avc video in a mkv container - apart from the console crowds. PS3 dudes like AVC-HD rips (same format as a blu ray but fits on a dvd9), or the 360 crowd who stick to wmv (can't play mkvs)
 
just rip em to a mkc container. that's what i do with my BDs and old HD-DVDs. less hassle to play em and the qual is the same
 
tommo123 said:
just rip em to a mkc container. that's what i do with my BDs and old HD-DVDs. less hassle to play em and the qual is the same
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What I can't stand about some formats is the audio will not be synced. It will need to drop some video frames to re-sync - I cannot tolerate this. Will this format do this?
 
always does for me. with eac3to you can extract whatever audio you like and leave as is, or re-encode if you want to. mkvtoolnix will mux em together for you. thinkmegui does it too.

none of these tools do anything with encrypted content mind. you need to sort that out yourself first
 
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