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I torrented what was supposedly a Blu-ray Audio release of a remixed and remastered album from an '80s group that I happen to like. I have the vinyl and CD versions so I thought, what the heck, wonder if I can make anything from the torrent.
It took many hours but the torrent process finally finished. I then started looking at the contents of the destination folder. It contained multiple folders within folders and dozens of files. What to do with that?
On a whim I launched Total Media Extreme 2, which came with my external Blu-ray drive. Under the "Create a Video" tab there is an option that I'd never noticed before called "Create DVD/Blu-ray/AVCHD from folder."
So I launched that option, selected the big folder into which all of the torrented bits and pieces had been placed, inserted a 25GB blank disc, and hit create. Shortly thereafter I was told the process was a success.
So I popped the disc into my HT Blu-ray player and there it was: main menu listing the tracks and giving me three audio options: 24/96 PCM stereo, 24/96 5.1 DTS-HD MA, and 24/96 5.1 PCM. Just like an original Blu-ray. All working as designed.
I found it pretty neat that the "free" software that came with my Blu-ray drive had the smarts to reassemble all the bits and pieces into a fully-functional disc. Up until now, I thought I'd need to point to a .iso file. In this case there was none in the torrent folder.
It took many hours but the torrent process finally finished. I then started looking at the contents of the destination folder. It contained multiple folders within folders and dozens of files. What to do with that?
On a whim I launched Total Media Extreme 2, which came with my external Blu-ray drive. Under the "Create a Video" tab there is an option that I'd never noticed before called "Create DVD/Blu-ray/AVCHD from folder."
So I launched that option, selected the big folder into which all of the torrented bits and pieces had been placed, inserted a 25GB blank disc, and hit create. Shortly thereafter I was told the process was a success.
So I popped the disc into my HT Blu-ray player and there it was: main menu listing the tracks and giving me three audio options: 24/96 PCM stereo, 24/96 5.1 DTS-HD MA, and 24/96 5.1 PCM. Just like an original Blu-ray. All working as designed.
I found it pretty neat that the "free" software that came with my Blu-ray drive had the smarts to reassemble all the bits and pieces into a fully-functional disc. Up until now, I thought I'd need to point to a .iso file. In this case there was none in the torrent folder.