A HDMI cable is connected to my LG television that has a digital audio output cable (toslink) which is fed to my antique Dolby Digital/DTS Receiver.

I play all audio and video w/ a Raspberry Pi () that runs OpenElec () (a piece of software to utilize the Pi's AVC and DVD hardware playback capabilities (costs extra money for the keys) and to run the Kodi () media center). the -c:v part) and subtitle codec (-scodec) parts. Wanna have only the audio? Then simply leave out the video codec (i.e. Example of a convert to mp3 audio and h.264 (AVC) video, scaled to 848 x 480 pixels (= 16 : 9) with the subtitles and chapters intact:įfmpeg -i 'Ripped movie.mkv' -c:a mp3 -c:v libx264 -vf scale=848:480 -scodec copy 'Ripped movie (use VLC for chapters).mkv' Don't forget to update MakeMKV's key every once in a while w/ the key posted here (). This format contains audio, video and subtitles. What I use is MakeMKV () to backup DVD/Blu-ray to hard disk in MKV (Matroska) format. Some people backup their discs to hard disk for easy listening and viewing. In this topic () about the all new über expensive box set 'Early Years' people have been discussing the Blu-ray and DVD formats.

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