Here's the rundown. My wedding was filmed in HD, and only now, almost 2 years later, I was handed the Blu-Ray (word of advice - never, EVER let family handle this kind of shit). Problem is, I don't have a Blu-Ray Player/PS3/BD-R drive/whatever. I asked my brother's friend, who was handling the editing and authoring of the disc to make me an ISO of the BD so I could watch it through Daemon Tools, but the guy is too much of an idiot and a tool to get it done.
I've never done it, but I figure it might be as easy as copying any DVD into an image. Is it? Can I just pop the disc in a BD-R drive (my brother-in-law has one)and have Nero burn an Image as a copy?
Help me out please, me and the misses would'd like to watch this damn thing before yet another anniversary rolls by.

All work and no play makes me..., well, you know the rest.

I still don't own a BD-ROM (don't see much of a need until games start coming out on it...which is unlikely with the push to digital distribution instead of physical media), but it's apparently pretty easy to do with some freeware stuff.

Back in '09 Maximum PC did an article on ripping DVDs/BDs and they recommended Ripbot264. Since you're not going to be dealing with copy protection, that should be all you need. Not sure if Handbrake can handle it as well, but it sounds like Ripbot264 is fairly straightforward.

A little searching on ANYDVDHD with Google turned up this. ESET Smart Security says it's ok, but check it yourself to be safe.

The other program you need is a freebie called IMGBURN You can read about it here.

ANYDVDHD decrypts the Blurays, while IMGBURN burns the results to another Bluray.

Hope that helps.




> Here's the rundown. My wedding was filmed in HD, and only now, almost 2 years
> later, I was handed the Blu-Ray (word of advice - never, EVER let family handle
> this kind of shit). Problem is, I don't have a Blu-Ray Player/PS3/BD-R
> drive/whatever. I asked my brother's friend, who was handling the editing and
> authoring of the disc to make me an ISO of the BD so I could watch it through
> Daemon Tools, but the guy is too much of an idiot and a tool to get it done.
> I've never done it, but I figure it might be as easy as copying any DVD into an
> image. Is it? Can I just pop the disc in a BD-R drive (my brother-in-law has
> one)and have Nero burn an Image as a copy?
> Help me out please, me and the misses would'd like to watch this damn thing
> before yet another anniversary rolls by.
>
> All work and no play makes me..., well, you know the rest.
>

Now I'm thinking of cropping it down to SD and sharing it with some people. Is there a private way of sharing a video that'd be easy and accessible to others, like youtube might be?

All work and no play makes me..., well, you know the rest.

> Now I'm thinking of cropping it down to SD and sharing it with some people. Is
> there a private way of sharing a video that'd be easy and accessible to others,
> like youtube might be?
>
> All work and no play makes me..., well, you know the rest.
>