• MakeMKV to rip the video.
• detect-crop from Melton’s tools.
• transcode-video with the crop value from detect-crop plus -add-audio all.
• Subler to remove unnecessary audio and add subtitles.

This post is just for my own sake. I’ll probably write this up better once I’ve reached a final conclusion.

The workflow is as follows:

• MakeMKV to rip the titles from the blu-ray disc.
• Don Melton’s transcode video with the following options:
  • transcode-video --add-audio all <videofile>
• Subler to remove unnecessary audio tracks and add external subtitles.

It’s not perfect and it needs some tweaking. Right now I’m contemplating whether to use detect crop or from Melton’s utilities.

I’m trying to rip the video (and audio) from Blu-rays¹ into an iTunes and AppleTV friendly format, while preserving subtitles and, this is key, not burning them in. I’ll write a detailed post on my needs, findings and workflow soon but right now I just want to throw the ball out to you.

I’m currently using a mixture of MakeMKV, Don Melton’s video transcode scripts, Subler and iDentify 2. The workflow I’m currently using requires me to add external .srt-files for subtitles, since I don’t want to burn them into the video.

Do you, dear reader, have any experience with this? Any suggestions for me? Please get in touch! (E-mail: henrik [@] henrikcarlsson [dot] se, @synvila on twitter or just send a webmention to this post.)