True but most people don't have 20 2TB HD lying around, they might have 2, maybe 3 and you do know that there is never enough free space. it'll consume more space, but some will say that HDDs are cheap today. This is more of a subjective nature and, far from trying to say that my approach is best, I'll just simply say that I don't see the purpose of backing up the entire discs. If you really want to read more about mkv - in a nice, from simple to complex way - read 101 things you never knew you could do with Matroska.įor the people that backup Blu-ray to ISOs or to complete folder structure. As tested with MC 16, the advance options in Haali splitter are offered through the Stream selection menu entry, allowing for easy switching between the embedded Editions (thanks audunth for pointing it out). (note: you can still probably switch streams by using the splitters icon on the taskbar, if enabled haven't tried that route and it's nowhere near as elegant as built-in support). Maybe the devs can take a look and add support for the said features. But, as MC does not expose the advanced properties available through the Halli splitter one has no way to switch edition/cuts. If you use Haali with MC (as you can surely do) it will pick the first edition and play it, correct length and all. Now, on the MC status, that's a bit in the middle of all things. Maybe more splitters (LAV?) will support these features, who knows. If you use other splitter the file will still play but what you get is whatever is in the first Edition (first "cut" of the movie) with the added parts stuffed at the end, giving the file an unnatural time length. There is one big requirement: you need Haali splitter for such an MKV to work properly.
#MAKEMKV BACKUP GREYED OUT MOVIE#
The resulting file, if you did everything right, will have each "cut" of the movie as an Edition, and you can switch between them as you like. Then you take the video, audio and subs and throw them into MKVMerge (part of mkvtoolnix), load the already made chapters, add the tags file and press mux. In Xin1 you indicate the versions of the movie you want to save and the program will output a video stream, an audio stream (or more), subtitles streams, a chapters file and a tags file. I use Xin1Generator (screenshot from the official site below) to create the proper rips. I admit is not as simple as ripping a disk with MakeMKV but it's far less complicated that one might think. Oh, cool! Do you have to work 3 days and 3 nights to get that done? No. Compare that with 100GB+ to have separate rips. If we take Salt as an example you add to the original ~31GB rip another 5-7GB (from memory, I might me slightly wrong) and that's it, you have all 3 versions in one file. The fix is you do ordered chapters and seamless branching within an MKV file. For me, tidy, clean and efficient always wins. Do you keep on ripping separate versions? I know that HDD space is cheap today but that's not a reason to go overboard. And there's Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien Resurrection each with extended cuts and with separate commentaries for each cut.
But then there's Once Upon A Time In The West with Theatrical and Restored version. So what are you gonna do if you want all 3? Rip them separately? You'll end up with 100GB of rips from one 40GB Blu-Ray since you're re-ripping most of the sequences every time you create an alternate version.īut maybe Salt is not your type of movie. The are significant differences between the 3 versions, so much so that they have different endings than the Theatrical version. It has 3 versions, the Theatrical, the Director's Cut and the Extended Cut. Why would you need any of these things? I'll give you a couple of recent and well known examples. So let's assume that you are not part of the anime fansub scene (where some of these features are very popular). The degree this specs are implemented/supported varies wildly. Maybe you've heard that besides the audio and video, mkv allows embedding subtitles, fonts for the said subtitles (so they always get displayed as intended even if the required font is not installed as a system font), covers, allow for ordered chapters (that can refer a position in an external file, not the one you're currently playing), seamless branching (link different physical files together) and other fancy stuff like that. So I thought it would be good to outline what's doable now (as in Mid 2011) with mkv, preferably without frying one's brain (what follows it's probably common knowledge for the Doom9 people, I'm writing for the less savvy readers of Doom9, who may develop an interest). He had a very good point that it's downright complicated to use these more exotic features of the mkv container.
A week or so ago I had a brief exchange with Glynor in another thread about the mkv more advanced features.
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