How To Rip 4K Dolby ATMOS Blu-rays | The LAST Guide You’ll Ever Need

Today on TwoGuyzTech, Logan is going to be talking about his experience in ripping 4K Dolby ATMOS and DTS:X Blu-rays to hard drive storage for a NAS and media streaming using MakeMKV.

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[WilPagan]

Hello, thanks for the Video. I purchased the Pioneer BDR-XS07UHD from your link, and in makemkv I'm getting Status: Possible, not yet enabled. Have you come across this?

[XDUDE]

Mark my words, when we lose the option to own physical media, like anything else, it will be a loss that we will of wished we didn't let happen. Cancel your streaming services and insist on physical media. So you OWN IT. I built my home theater, home media server (NAS) and got BW-16D1HT drives years back because I saw this trend trying to move everything to subscription/renting. I buy every physical copy I can find, be that DVD, BD or 4K. Even digitized VHS's that were never released on disc. Good video, more need to do this!

[jakesmith]

Wow. I still remember doing this to DVDs about 20 years ago. Good times.

[amcrossx]

learned that right click and unselect was an option brilliant as never realised after ripping thousands of discs

[nolanturner]

I happened to buy this suggested drive on Amazon in February from the "Produplicator Store". It was $60 more than from the Pioneer store, but it did work as described. Thanks for helping me find a way to digitize our 4K Ultra HD movies!

[GoTeamScotch]

I bought an Asus BW-16D1X-U external USB blu-ray drive last week for ripping 4K blu-rays and it's been fantastic. It rips 4K discs in about 30 minutes. Standard blu-rays in about 20m. I bought it used for $60 (free shipping) and flashed the firmware, then opened it up and moved the drive from its USB enclosure over to my desktop tower. It was a really cheap and easy way to get into blu-ray ripping. The speeds are great too.

[JCole]

I’ll also add I’ve been using the same Pioneer BD drive for over 3 years now, and it’s been amazing. Any problems I’ve had with it stem from software and not hardware. The fact that it doesn’t use a tray was my main reason for buying it.

[jamess]

For anyone considering ripping 4K make sure you have a big enough HDD. A 1TB drive will fill up fast. Really nice instructive video.

[FocusedFrequenciesMusic]

It is a small thing and not a major question, but this video was not only helpful, it was well done. It was clear, easy to follow, and not only answered my question. I learned a few things as well. Well well done!

[thelegendarybidoof]

You really need to update this video and its description to let people know that the Pioneer BDR-XS07 doesn't work anymore due to 1.03 being what they ship out now. That drive currently can't even be flashed to work properly at all, so it's literally one of the main drives to avoid. You've got the Amazon link right at the top of the description without any warning that it should not be used. If you're not going to change the video itself, at least update the description with a clear warning. The fact you make commission off of that is even worse.

[jeebugorn]

starting my 1st 4k rip right now. finally got everything setup: NAS with lots of space, bluray drive, etc. will see how this turns out. oddly enough, this makes me want to purchase physical movies again, which i havent done in years.

[Steventwangs]

I'm rebuying all my childhood favourites on physical media because if I want to stream them they're usually behind a pay wall twice the price of a blu ray or DVD. We've sold our soul man

[MickeyMishra]

I still have all the DVD's I bought YEARS ago. And did the same with XBMC on my xbox. Still have about 3 of them OG units. My main reason for doing this back them was KIDS! My god, they would scratch up any Game disc or DVD movie title I had. At times, I owned 4-5 copies of a DVD or Games.

Putting them on a NAS or Windows SMB share saved me THOUSANDS of dollars! I would just rip the entire ISO and then set up the Scrapers.

But even I have to admit that doing this now is more just for the titles I really like to watch. And there are only a few of them on Blueray I care to watch these days as not much from Hollywood really gets me wanting to watch or ever watch it again. Then as the kid grew up? I really had no need to do this.

With Blurrays? I just have not bothered. Overtime? I really don't spend much time doing home theater.
And I have most of my stuff in storage now. The golden age of it is sort of lost on me as the kids grew up. And I don't have to worry about messed up or scratched discs like I use to, making the disc unplayable or unwatchable.

[txag]

I've been using MakeMKV for a long time and I must say this is a great intro video! You can also stream line the track selection by selection the preferred language (i assume English for most watching this video) under the preferences menu then the language tab. Happy ripping everyone!!!!

[TheNewBloodDan]

Finally decided to buy make mkvs. I used it enough to justify the purchase.

[InimicusSolitus]

I did this for my 500+ collection of DVDs and bluray. I have backups of every file, so it doubles the storage needed - I don't want to have to rip 100s of movies again if a drive fails.
I'm not going to rip my 4K discs, as the file sizes are really big. I have a Panasonic 820 4K player for playback.

[knightone]

Also you can use Handbrake to reduce the file size after to save space if needed.

[systematicallyshocked]

"You need physical blu rays to rip". Very informative. 😄 love the video! Thanks for the tips! I've had issues with mkv even on my dvds. Sometimes I get good rips, and sometimes I get ones that just skip.

[kjoshua]

Thank you for the education and very well explained guide. And here I was thinking 4K was not rip-able yet.

[tuborice]

Just a quick pointer you need to flag the forced subs as well NAME = Forced and FLAG = df. Also VC1 codec does not work so you will have to convert the vc1 codec to a format plex likes. The only blurays I have trouble with are 3D blurays. Also check you disc as slight scratches or dirty disc will end in a failed rip or will not rip at all. And for tv series and film naming I use a programme called Filebot it has saved my countless hours renaming boxsets etc.