So I know this may be in the “shady” area of authoring, but I think it’s something I should cover. We have a client who refuses to give us their logo in HD for the FirstTitle section of the disc. He says they don’t have one and want us to recreate it in HD. But we know it exists because we have a Blu-ray title of theirs we bought and it’s on that disc. This sort of thing happened all the time for us with DVD and we would end up ripping trailers, special features, logos, and who knows what else from other features they had released. So we decided to venture into the land of Blu-ray ripping, and found it surprisingly easy.

Step 1: Download and install AnyDVD. AnyDVD will remove the AACS encryption at the drive level. What this means is that you can move the files straight off the disc in explorer and do whatever you want with them. It’s a very good program, however it’s not free. You can download a 21 day demo of it, but after that is cost 80 EUR. What is that in USD? Like $400? Just kidding, it’s $123.

Step 2: Put in the Blu-ray disc and open it up in explorer. Go into the BDMV folder and into the Stream folder. There should be a bunch of M2TS files. You can play these by drag and dropping these files into WinDVD or whatever software player you have until you find which file you want to use.

Step 3: Download and install TSMuxer. This free program will do a ton, but really we are just using it to demux the M2TS files. There is also a Linux version available if you are into that sort of thing. When you run it, click “Add” and choose the M2TS file you decided to rip. Then under “Output” choose “Demux”. We found there are two settings you want to deselect. They are “Add picture timing info” and “Continuously insert SPS/PPS”. Then just click “Start Demux”. It will then create two files for you, in our case a 264 file and a WAV. Here’s a screenshot for the visual type:

Step 4: You can now use the Sonic MUI program to create your VES files and import them into Scenarist. 

That’s pretty much it. We’ve only done this once, so you may run into issues depending on what kind of file you are ripping, frame rates, and bitrates, but this should give you a good start. Doom9.org is a GREAT source for all things shady, so if this doesn’t help head over there and see what you can find.

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