How to rip secondary video tracks?
Posted: Tue Dec 26, 2023 11:47 pm
I just got the blu-ray edition of How to Train Your Dragon for Christmas. As I was browsing the disc menus, I saw that there was an option to have an 'animator's corner' enabled. It appears this is an extra audio and video track that plays over top the main feature in the bottom left corner of the screen. Using makeMKV, I've managed to rip the animator's corner's audio track, but not the video track. It seems that for any given title, MakeMKV will by default only index the primary video track. Therefore when opening the disc, There are 2 versions of the main feature, one containing the animator audio track, but neither containing the animator video track.
In the past, I've set up VLC to use the MakeMKV codecs in order to play blu-ray discs (albeit without menus), so when trying to open the disc in VLC, I can see that title 0 has 2 video tracks associated with it, track 1 being the movie, and track 2 being the animator's corner. So, I know it exists, and I know MakeMKV is at least capable of seeing it.
After looking through the FAQ, I saw that MakeMKV apparently has some sort of manual picking mode. Could I use this to find and rip the missing video track? if so, how? I don't necessarily need it overlaid on top of the main feature. So long as I can get the animator's corner video, I can probably use editing tools to embed it into the ripped MKV file.
Technical info:
OS: PopOS 22.04
Version: v1.17.5 [linux(x64-release)] (Flatpak)
In the past, I've set up VLC to use the MakeMKV codecs in order to play blu-ray discs (albeit without menus), so when trying to open the disc in VLC, I can see that title 0 has 2 video tracks associated with it, track 1 being the movie, and track 2 being the animator's corner. So, I know it exists, and I know MakeMKV is at least capable of seeing it.
After looking through the FAQ, I saw that MakeMKV apparently has some sort of manual picking mode. Could I use this to find and rip the missing video track? if so, how? I don't necessarily need it overlaid on top of the main feature. So long as I can get the animator's corner video, I can probably use editing tools to embed it into the ripped MKV file.
Technical info:
OS: PopOS 22.04
Version: v1.17.5 [linux(x64-release)] (Flatpak)