Best way to rip HD DVDs?

[Stryker412]

I can rip my BD fine, but I tried for the first time last night to rip some of my HD DVDs. I successfully made an mkv with AC3 audio, and it plays fine in Windows. However when I try to play it via PMS it says data is corrupted.

[Stryker412]

bump anyone?

[ExSport]

not enough info
try second time after reading some posts here how to provide info and what debug.log is

[quepaso]

Most likely the audio is either E-AC3 which i dont think PMS supports, or the video codec is VC-1, which about 90% of HD DVD movies are. PS3 does not support VC-1 streamed, period. Any movie on VC-1 on both formats, just grab a re-encode of it, there is no way around this. Also, even HD DVD movies in AVC have issues streaming, they are encoded with 29.97 instead of 23.97 like Blu-rays are and PMS does not like them at all. Just a heads up. When it comes to anything HD DVD, just grab a re-encode and forget that format ever existed like the rest of the world already did.

p.s. - If you want to transcode the VC-1 into mpeg2 with mencoder, you can, but you will need the vc-1 wmv dll in the PMS codec folder. Do a search, the url got posted earlier. My comment above was strictly for streaming without transcoding, which is always the best way to handle streaming to the ps3.

[Stryker412]

Thank you quepaso that was very informative. I guess I'll have to rent the BD version of the HD DVDs I own.