![]() Once you have your MKV, you can shrink it, convert it, or modify it however you want. MakeMKV is a dead simple app that does one thing really well: make a full-size, 1080p MKV video file from your Blu-Ray disc. RELATED: What Is an MKV File and How Do You Play Them?įirst, you’ll need to do a basic rip of your Blu-Ray. Once you have all three of these things installed, grab your favorite Blu-Ray movies and get started. It’s not strictly necessary, but it’s a waste of resources to store, play, and stream huge video files if you don’t need to. So, we’ll use Handbrake to compress your MKV files to something a little more manageable, without losing much quality. Handbrake: MakeMKV will rip your Blu-Ray movie exactly as it is on the disc, which can be over 20 or 30GB in size.Right now, you shouldn’t have to pay for this program. MakeMKV claims that it’s only a beta product, but it’s been in “beta” for years, so it may stay free for a long time. This effectively extends the trial period indefinitely. Every month, you can either download the latest version of the beta or activate the application using the latest beta key in the forums. MakeMKV offers a free beta that works for 30 days, but that’s a little misleading. MakeMKV: This application, available for both Windows and macOS, rips your Blu-Rays to an MKV file. That’s it.If you want to burn your own Blu-Ray discs, you’ll need a drive that can read and write to blank Blu-Rays, but we’ll assume you just want to store them on your hard drive. Fortunately, you can get them online for less than $60. However, you’ll need a Blu-Ray reader in order to rip your Blu-Ray discs (obviously). If your computer came with any disc drive at all, it was probably a DVD drive. Before you begin, make sure you have installed the following: Or, you could tell it to grab the first Spanish track and pass it through without converting.You’ll need a few tools in order to start ripping your Blu-Ray collection. You can save these with a preset.įor example, you can tell it to grab all English audio tracks and convert them to aac. Handbrake lets you define rules for audio and subtitles based on language. I guess all the good ones were gone already.(and they seem to be French, so you know zeez crayzeee french.) No idea where they got the name from though. In MakeMKV I fairly recently discovered how to only rip English Audio and English subs though, which helps. I use MakeMKV to rip DVD, bluray and 4K and Handbrake to shrink (just blurays though, I leave DVD as they're low enough quality already and 4K cause I didn't buy 4K to lower their quality, and I'm not sure if you can anyway).ĭoing a batch of episodes generally works fine for me, but I havben't found a way to set subttiles and audio for all the titles in one go, so while you can have it set say the crf for all the titles to sat 21, you have to chucg though and set the audio for each one one at a time. I forget you can rip DVDs with Handbrake. I'll continue to use both, until I learn more. videoproc is easier for beginners, but handbrake looks to have a little bit more detail, so far, i'm still learning. Both have all the options, but videoproc defaults easier to use, handbrake more manual, but i'm still learning, so we'll see.Īlso, videoproc doesn't have a peak frame rate option, it defaulted to same as source, so I changed handbrake to same as source, and it made a huge difference in time to process, so the peak option takes a lot more time. Settings on both: keep 1080p, 23.976fps, audio bit rate 128kbps (sample rates slightly different 44.1kHz vs 48kHz handbrake, so I missed that one), encode h.264 level 4.2, image quality constant CRF 22, 2 pass. Videoproc produced a 2.5gb mp4 w/ 3930kbps Handbrake produced a 3.6gb mp4 w/ 5563kbps noob here learning more about video compression.īoth handbrake and videoproc produced similar results in similar timeframes, using similar settings (quality controls are different):
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