Backup ripped Blu-ray on 8-disk ZFS with a Linux server in my living room

Diana Joan

Feb 03, 2015 05:52 am / Posted by Diana Joan

For people who built a home media center, watching Blu-ray movies on an 8-disk ZFS array on a 12 TB Linux server on media computer can be such a great experience. To get full features of the original disc, Blu-ray discs can be ripped to an MKV container format storing the video as H.264 AVC and the audio tracks as AAC with all the subtitles and chapter markers.

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Rip Blu-ray to 8-disk ZFS on Linux server

What is ZFS?

ZFS is a combined file system and logical volume manager designed by Sun Microsystems. The features of ZFS include protection against data corruption, support for high storage capacities, efficient data compression, and integration of the concepts of file system and volume management.

What you need to fulfill the Blu-ray to 8-disk ZFS conversion?

Pavtube ByteCopy as a professional multi-track ripper can easily help you out. Follow this guide to learn how to backup Blu-ray movie to ZFS in H.264 MKV format with all the audio tracks and soft subtitles.

Rip Blu-ray to H.264 MKV for 8-disk ZFS with all audio tracks, subtitles and chapters

Step 1. Import Blu-ray movie

You can hit the "Import" icon to choose load Blu-ray disc from ROM (an external Blu-ray drive is needed), or import Blu-ray folder/ISO image files.

Load Blu-ray for ripping to ZFS

Tip: This ripper automatically selects the main Blu-ray movie to convert. You can also choose the preferred Blu-ray movie chapters to convert.

Step 2. Pick multi-track MKV as output

The highlight of this program is that it allows for preserving multiple video and audio streams, subtitles during conversion. To output multi-track MKV, just click the format bar to follow "Multi-track Video"- "Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV (*.mkv)" in the output format list.

Choose multi track mkv

Step 3. Customize profile settings (optional)

Hit on the Settings icon and you can customize audio and subtitle tracks. Uncheck the box for specific audio track and it will not be saved in output MKV file. It can also retain original 5.1 audio on media server.

For people who built a home media center, watching Blu-ray movies on an 8-disk ZFS array on a 12 TB Linux server on media computer can be such a great experience. To get full features of the original disc, Blu-ray discs can be ripped to an MKV container format storing the video as H.264 AVC and the audio tracks as AAC with all the subtitles and chapter markers.

Step 4. Rip Blu-ray to 8-Disk ZFS multi-track MKV

Before conversion, choose a proper output folder to save the converted Blu-ray movies by clicking the "Brows" button, and then hit the "Convert" button to start converting Blu-ray to ZFS in multi-track MKV on Linux server.


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