In the past , we ’ve written a bunch about rive your DVDs in parliamentary procedure to watch them on an iPhone or an Apple television . The most - late edition of HandBrake makes it pretty easy , and my confrere Christopher Breen recently posted a Macworld video that walk you through the ripping unconscious process .
All of the poppycock we ’ve cover is great for ripping standard DVDs , but alas none of those applications works with Blu - ray discs . Now that Blu - ray players are becoming more coarse in the living room , so are the Blu - shaft of light movies we watch on them .
To see if I could rend a Blu - re saucer , I downloaded the freeMakeMKVbeta , a DVD- and Blu - electron beam - ripping diligence for OS X and Windows . I borrow a Buffalo Technology MediaStation 8X External Blu - ray Writer ( ) from the Macworld Lab , put in the Blu - shaft of light version of Oliver Stone’sW. , and launched MakeMKV .
The software program instantly found my USB - connected ride , and let me record the Blu - shaft disc inwardly . It then presented me with a list of titles , each with a Indian file size of it next to it . The first title of respect was the main moving-picture show — easy to tell because it listed the number of chapter and also exhibit the largest Indian file sizing of the group at 35 GB . Clicking the revelation triangle next to that title showed me the various audio and subtitle tracks take in the movie , and let me deselect those I did n’t desire . I then clicked the Make MKV clitoris and , about an hour and a one-half after , stop up with a 31.79 GB .mkv file on my hard cause .
MakeMKV fundamentally undress the copy tribute from movies and then copies them into an MKV container . The result is a perfect copy of the movie , at its original frame size of it and datum charge per unit , which I was capable to play on my Mac Pro using the freeVLC metier player . However , the file wo n’t play on any Apple twist ( even if you had elbow room for it ) . Unlike HandBrake , MakeMKV does n’t do any transcoding , so if you want to watch the moving picture on your iPhone or Apple TV , say , you ’ll require to commute it with a separate app , such as the freeVideoMonkey — which take even longer than the original Blu - ray ripping process .
Another app I come up , unremarkably referred to as Blu - ray Ripper for Mac , appears on many dissimilar site with slightly different name and pretend to be from different companies . They ’re all the same garish , $ 49 app , however . On the plus side , they lease you elicit and transcode element from Blu - re movies in one step . But at least with the test variant I used , the solvent were n’t very upright . In general , I advise steering clear of such high-priced , generic ripping computer software .
It ’s early twenty-four hour period for Blu - ray ripping , peculiarly on the Mac , but it does seem like there ’s progress being made to let us enjoy our purchased movie on our other devices , irrespective of format .
[ Update : As several meeting place posters have point out , using HandBrake to convert the MKV data file to Apple - friendly formats is another good option . The later variant of HandBrake seems very stable when dealing with non - DVD files . ]
