Playing ripped blu ray MKV's

[skull_bone]

Hello guys, hope you can help me out here. I've ripped my first BD using MakeMKV, but when playing the ripped file using TMT3, it stutters and sometimes plays speeded up like its trying to catch up. System specs are:

W7 RC1, Q9550 @3.4ghz, 8GB of DDR2, 9600GT 1GB GPU, OS on two 30GB SSD's in RAID 0, MKV saved to the F:\ partition of a Seagate 500GB HDD, TMT3 Platinum Full version.

What can i be doing wrong? TMT says i have hardware acceleration on, although i haven't used Task Manager to check CPU useage. I want to get this sorted, as i've just bought a 1TB HDD to sling all my rips on.

 

[skull_bone]

NVM, i followed these instructions and it's playing flawlessly! I was on the Arcsoft forums, and it seems they themselves don't recommend TMT3 for MKV playback. Well, i can play discs, and now i can rip them and watch them without the discs. Thanks to this forum again, as i wouldnt have found www.hack7mc.com without it.

 

[rwttm001]

Well done!

Are you able to skip chapters/ff/rewind, use subtitles etc using this method?

 

[skull_bone]

hmmm, not tried any of that. I'm planning a ripping sesh tonight , and after that, i'll be getting the front end all sorted out so that there will be a lovely synopsis and cover art pop up when you go through a film choice. The disc i ripped first was Planet Earth on Blu Ray (haven't tried HDDVD's yet), the one with the Polar Bear on the cover and Patrick Stewart narrating. It's a good disc, and my 2 yr old son loves it. He also loves Monsters inc, Bolt, Wall-E, and Transformers, so this film library will be for conveniance for our sakes

 

[rwttm001]

I had a bash with MKV's a little while ago, and got it going in VMC with few hardware acceleration using the MediaPlayer Classic codec, but the absence of subtitle and chapter controls in this setup took me back to ISOs.

 

[skull_bone]

Yeah, i can skip through it, but not through chapters. I'm not sure if this will cause problems for me TBH. I'm not too fussed about them, although, this may be a problem when i try to watch an MKV of Pans Labyrinth.

If i ripped them to ISO's, would the Media program automatically mount them or would i have to do this myself>?

 

[rwttm001]

I suppose it depends on the skipping interval I suppose! Skipping 30secs through a 3hr film doesn't sound like fun!

If you choose to use ISOs, you'll need to mount them using either Virtual Clone Drive or Daemon Tools. I use VCD and it works great, exactly as if a physical disk. The downside is that it will also be exactly the same file size. I have a number of 40gb+ files stored locally.

 

[skull_bone]

Right, this isn't as simple as you'd think. Out of all the discs i've ripped so far, that's Batman Begins, Dark Knight, Monsters Inc, Bolt, and Earth, only Earth (BBC documentary film) plays in W7MC Media Browser without crashing the frontend. I have no idea what i've done wrong. I've followed the instructions on Hack7MC (MKV's in W7mc for minimalists) to the letter, and i still can't quite get it to work. Am i better ripping an ISO, then ditching the stuff i don't need, and then ripping an MKV from the ISO? Seriously, I just want a diskless Movie Jukebox type thing. So far i feel like i'm trying to program a computer from scratch. I need help !!!

 

[Cotti]

To get MKV's working in MC7 you only really need the halli splitter installed (the 64bit beta if your on that version). If your using media browser try clearing the cache and also confirm the files play in wmp

 

[Deleted member 39241]

Does the Win 7 H264 codec do dxva with an Nvidia 9400 Card (CUDA enabled)?

 

[skull_bone]

no idea deleted member. Sorry.
So, update. I've bought Anydvd HD and started ripping ISO's of my discs using IMGBurn. These work, playing through TMT3, but they can't be launched through Media Browser. I have managed to get the MKV's playing, but i'm not getting any sound. THis is frustrating and rewarding in turns, albeit unnequal turns.

This is a breakdown of the render process for Dark Knight MKV file. As you can see, it has loads of audio streams, and it looks to me like it's trying to render all of them. Now, all i want is sound to come out my TV, down the HDMI, in stereo. Nothing fancy. Just so Mrs Skull_Bone can easily put films on for our Son.

 

[anthony.s]

What size are your mkv files if all the streams are still there? Or is that graph of an .iso?
I wrote my own guide a while ago LINK which is a bit out of date but the process is OK.
I used TSRemux to strip out the unwanted streams.

 

[eddiem74]

no idea deleted member. Sorry.
So, update. I've bought Anydvd HD and started ripping ISO's of my discs using IMGBurn. These work, playing through TMT3, but they can't be launched through Media Browser. I have managed to get the MKV's playing, but i'm not getting any sound. THis is frustrating and rewarding in turns, albeit unnequal turns.

This is a breakdown of the render process for Dark Knight MKV file. As you can see, it has loads of audio streams, and it looks to me like it's trying to render all of them. Now, all i want is sound to come out my TV, down the HDMI, in stereo. Nothing fancy. Just so Mrs Skull_Bone can easily put films on for our Son.

I think no sound is because the MKV is looking to use AC3Filter which typically works with SPDIF/Coax rather than HDMI. Maybe there is some way around this though.....?