How to rip Blu-ray with Linear-PCM 5.1 or 7.1 audio?

In the Blu-ray specification, Dolby TrueHD, DTS-MA, LPCM, Dolby Digital, DTS and PCM are optional codecs for Blu-ray audio encoding. When backup Blu-ray movie, most Blu-ray ripper software will choose to convert Blu-ray LPCM audio to AC3 or AAC 5.1 audio, which are more acceptable for universal a/v receivers. Surely you lose some quality when encoding Blu-ray LPCM 7.1 audio to AC3/AAC, but this is a compromise. What if you have a surround amp that accepts 7.1 PCM audio channels? I’m sure you would like to keep the Blu-ray LPCM 7.1 audio, just like me. The following guide tells how to keep PCM 5.1/LPCM 7.1 audio when ripping Blu-ray movie to seamless MKV file with Pavtube ByteCopy, a new released BD ripping tool with lossless video output and multiple audio & subtitle options.

Software availability:

1. Pavtube ByteCopy Trial version. A trial is free but functional-restricted. Lossless output can be used 3 times only. You may download a trial and see how it works.
2. Pavtube ByteCopy Retail version. A full version is offered at $42 by Pavtube Studio.

Preparation:
Hook up an external Blu-ray Disc drive with your laptop/desktop (if there is not an internal one), and place a Blu-ray Disc that contains Blu-ray PCM 5.1/LPCM 7.1 audios into the BD drive.

Guide of how to keep Blu-ray PCM 5.1/LPCM 7.1 audio when ripping Blu-ray movie to MKV :

Step 1. Run Pavtube ByteCopy software and click the “Load BD/DVD” icon to import movie files from Blu-ray Disc for backing up to MKV.

Step 2. To pass-through Blu-ray LPCM 7.1/PCM 5.1 audio, just click the “Convert” button to start ripping the Blu-ray movie to MKV file under lossless mode.

In this way Pavtube ByteCopy extracts the main movie with all subtitles and audio tracks from disc and seals the contents into MKV container without transcoding, which means you get lossless quality MKV file. 1080p HD video stream, Blu-ray LPCM 7.1/PCM 5.1 audio tracks and PGS subtitles are retained without en-decoding.

Note: The Blu-ray LPCM 7.1/PCM 5.1 audios are copied from original Blu-ray Disc without quality loss. To convert TrueHD, DTS-HD, Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1 audio to PCM 5.1 audio, please select the main title and click “Edit stream” button, switch to “Audio” tab and set audio settings to PCM 5.1 channels.


Additional tips:

1. The Pavtube ByteCopy rips BD/DVD as fast as your BD drive can read data when lossless output is selected. It takes 1hr to 2 hrs to rip BD based on the file size of source Blu-ray movie (normally 20GB- 50GB).
2. The Pavtube ByteCopy is able to crack copy-protections of commercial Blu-ray Discs and DVDs, third-party BD decryption software like AnyDVD is not necessary.
3. Best video quality is kept when you choose lossless output. To properly play lossless Blu-ray contents back will require a high horsepower computer or powerful HD media player to support the data rate involved in MKV format- the only format that Pavtube ByteCopy uses.
4. For converting Blu-ray PCM/LPCM to Dolby Digital 5.1 audio while keeping original Blu-ray video stream, check ripping Blu-ray LPCM to AC3 5.1.

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