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Requirements
• External Hard Drive
• Blue-Ray Disc Ripper (Download here)
• tsMuxerGUI (Download here)
• TMPGEnc Xpress (Download Fully Functional Trial here)
• TMPGEnc Xpress Xbox360 Video Profile (Download here)
• eac3to (Download here)
• Any computer with a blue ray player
Optional Requirements
• Slysoft AnyDVD HD (Download Fully Functional Trial here)
• MacDrive 8 (Download Fully Functional Trial here)
• Boilsoft Video Splitter (Download Here)
I decided to write this guide because my laptop can play blue-ray disks and I wanted to play them on my Xbox however since you cannot just put the disk in we have to do a bit of legwork to get the blue-ray content to the Xbox, In this guide I’m going to show you how to get your blue-ray movies onto you Xbox 360, you can download all of the software from here (links at the top), it’s all either free to use or it has a fully functional free trial.
Step 1: Rip the disk
First you will need to rip the contents of your blue-ray disk, you will need anywhere from 25-50GB of free space to rip the contents of you disk into.
Note: If you’re using Slysoft AnyDVD HD skip to here.
To start ripping your disk you need to first download Blue-Ray Disc Ripper, once you’ve downloaded Blue-Ray Disc Ripper you’ll need to start it up and you’ll see this screen:
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Now you might want to go get a coffee or something because this can take a while.
Step 1(Alt):
Ripping With Slysoft AnyDVD HD
Note: If you used Blue-Ray Disc Ripper you can skip this step.
If you have Slysoft AnyDVD HD you don’t need to look up the CPS key, simply open Slysoft AnyDVD Ripper (from the start menu), Not the Image Ripper.
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Step 2: Split the Audio and Video
Now you will need to have tsMuxerGUI (download here) , you’ll need to use it to rip the audio track from the video file, the audio track needs to be ripped because otherwise the encoder that we will use later will most likely use the directors commentary track.
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You may have noticed that there are lots of video files that have been ripped off the disk, the largest one is the feature film the others are all special features.
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Step 3: Convert Ripped Audio to AC3
The Resulting audio file is in a ts format unfortunately the encoder does not support this format so we will need to convert it to AC3 using eac3to (Download here).
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Step 4: Encode Video to WMV-VC1 (HD)
Now for the longest step, you’ll need to re-encode the video files using TMPGEnc Xpress (Download Fully Functional Trial here). Once TMPGEnc Xpress is installed open it and you’ll see.
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You now have a re-encoded video file that the Xbox will play you’ve just got to get it onto the Xbox, you have two options:
1. Copy the file onto external HDD, Keep reading it’s not as strait forward as it sounds.
2. Stream the media from your pc, You will need a very fast wifi connection or a good wired network connection.
Step 5: Copy to External HDD
The First thing you will need to do is re-format you external hard drive (the Xbox can’t read NTFS stupid I know), for this you have to options:
1. FAT32 – Problem with this is it has a maximum file size of 4GB.
2. HFS+(Recommended)
HFS+ (Recommended) Skip for FAT32
This is the preferred format because it will allow you to have very large single files and as you can see from above most HD films will be about 5GB once encoded, to use HFS+ in windows you will need to download MacDrive 8, there is a fully functional trial available.
Note: If you have a Mac you can use that to format you drive to HFS+
Using MacDrive 8 simply click Format or repair Mac disks
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Fat32 (Not Recommended)
If you want to use FAT32 for whatever reason, as you have seen the encoded video will be about 5GB and the maximum file size for a single file on FAT32 is 4GB so we will have to split the video file, you should use Boilsoft Video Splitter (Download Here) for this, and then simply copy all of the video pieces to your external HDD, you will have to play them one at a time on your Xbox.
