MakeMKV – Rip DVD and Blu-ray to MKV

If you have hundreds of DVD and Blu-ray discs in your room, gathering dust, I am willing to bet that you must be seeking for the ripping software to change the discs into digital files. MakeMKV is the solution recommended by many of others. It is the one-click ripper software to transcode DVD and Blu-ray into MKV for playing on device.

Is MakeMKV free to use?

Does MakeMKV remove copy protection?

That’s what shall discuss in this post. We are talk about the review of MakeMKV and how to use it. Moreover, you can also find the MakeMKV alternatives here.

MakeMKV

Part 1. MakeMKV Overview and Use

Overview of MakeMKV

MakeMKV is the Blu-ray and DVD transcoder on Windows, Mac and Linux computer. It can extract encrypted AACS and BD+ discs into a set of MKV files. Most information in the disc like audio track, subtitles, and other metadata information will be preserved without changes.

There are two main features of MakeMKV, ripping DVD and ripping Blu-ray.

Among, MakeMKV works as the freeware to rip DVD and shareware to convert Blu-ray.

After 30 days’ free trial, you need to purchase it (50,00 €) to activate the software.

After getting the basic information of MakeMKV, let’s check how to use this program.

How to Use MakeMKV

MakeMKV is simple software to use. Here’s how to get started:

Step 1: Download MakeMKV from its official page. It is compatible with Windows XP and later, and Mac OS X 10.7 or later.

Note: MakeMKV is not signed by Apple, you might need to adjust gatekeeper options in order to install the program.

Step 2: After the successful installation, open this software. You will find its interface is very simple. All available optical drives will appear in its interface. Click Files to choose either Open files from ISO or folder, or Open disc to import the DVD or Blu-ray disc.

Step 3: Once the disc files are opened in MakeMKV, you can see its all titles in the left side. Unfold the title and you will see the detailed information of the title like type, size, length, codec, etc.

Select which titles you want to convert and the tracks that you want to save in each title.

After you have made all the settings, click MakeMKV button to start transcoding.

Then the DVD or Blu-ray conversion will start and you can see the transcoding progress.

It is easy to use MakeMKV. However, can it be the best option for you?

Just move the next part to read the reviews of MakeMKV and then make your decision.

Part 2. MakeMKV Reviews

Though MakeMKV is easy to use and it is free to rip DVD. However, will you download it on your computer.

Let’s make a summary of this software after 4 Blu-ray movies and 3 DVD film’s ripping for about 5 hours.

Pros

• 1. It is simple to use.
• 2. Completely free to rip DVD into MKV on computer.
• 3. Rip encrypted discs.
• 4. Preserves all meta-information (track language, audio type).

Cons

• 1. The interface is simple and not user-friendly.
• 2. Lack of output parameter settings.
• 3. It is slow to complete the ripping process without hardware acceleration.
• 4. The output format is limited to MKV, no other formats.

After getting to know the above reviews, you can conclude that MakeMKV will be the good companion if you want to extract digital formats from DVD without spending any cost. As for Blu-ray ripping, the price seems not to be affordable for everyone.

No worry, you can find the MakeMKV alternatives in the next part.

Part 3. MakeMKV Alternatives to Rip Blu-ray and DVD

For ripping DVD and Blu-ray, we recommend the 2 replacements of MakeMKV.

AnyMP4 Video Converter Ultimate

AnyMP4 Video Converter Ultimate is the desktop DVD converter, which can convert DVD disc, folder, and ISO file into over 500 digital formats like MP4, AVI, MKV, MOV, MKV, WMV, WebM, M4V, FLV, RMVB, SWF, VOB, TS, M2TS, MTS, MXF, MPG, 3GP, MP3, FLAC, WMA, OGG, AAC, ALAC, AIFF, M4R, etc. Apart from ripping DVD, it can transcode other mainstream video and audio formats as the common video converter. Before ripping DVD, it also offers the editing options to adjust the DVD effects.

• ● Rip DVD, even the protected DVD disc.
• ● Convert DVD (SD and HD DVD) to other formats and devices.
• ● Transcode DVD to MPG Lossless to keep the original audio tracks and subtitles.
• ● Edit video effects like crop, clip, watermark, merge, filter, audio track, subtitle, and more.
• ● Compress DVD titles, edit DVD metadata information, and create GIFs from DVD.
• ● Convert 3D videos and enhance the SD DVD movies quality.
• ● Hardware acceleration will rip DVD at 30X faster than others.

Now, let’s check how to use this MakeMKV alternative.

Step 1: Free download this program from the above download link. Run it after the successful installation. Click the Ripper tab.

Insert your DVD disc into computer, and click the Load DVD button to add the DVD disc.

Moreover, you can select Load DVD ISO file or Load DVD folder.

Step 2: Choose the output format from the drop-down list of Rip All to:. MPG Lossless is the default output format for DVD ripping, because it can keep all the original audio and subtitle tracks of DVD.

In addition, you can also convert DVD to ISO or folder, even choose other formats to convert DVD for more devices.

Step 3: This step can be skipped for those who do not need any editing features. If you want to rotate, crop, watermark, clip, edit subtitle/audio track, etc., just click the Edit icon (a star image) or the clip icon (scissors image).

Note: For editing DVD files, you will have to convert DVD to other formats, instead of MPG Lossless.

After that, you can start editing DVD title effects as you wish.

Step 4: When everything is done, just click Rip All in the main interface.

You can check the progress to know when the DVD ripping is done.

AnyMP4 Blu-ray Ripper

Another substitute for MakeMKV is AnyMP4 Blu-ray Ripper for Windows and Mac users. As its name replies, it is the professional Blu-ray ripper software to convert Blu-ray disc and folder to other formats like Video Converter Ultimate mentioned above. This program is also developed by AnyMP4 and they possess some similar functions.

• ● Convert Blu-ray disc and folder (4K supported) into over 500 formats.
• ● Transcode encrypted Blu-ray disc for personal use.
• ● Extract MKV Lossless from Blu-ray to keep original audio and subtitle tracks.
• ● Edit Blu-ray disc before ripping like crop, rotate, clip, merge, watermark, etc.
• ● Toolbox enables you to compress video, edit metadata information (ID3 tag editor), create GIFs, enhance video quality, and convert 3D Blu-ray discs.
• ● Hardware acceleration will rip Blu-ray at 30X faster than others.

Now let’s breakdown the exact process.

Step 1: Free download Blu-ray Ripper on your Windows or Mac computer by clicking the download link above. Follow the on-screen instructions to install it. Open this software.

Step 2: Insert your Blu-ray disc into computer. Click Load Blu-ray button to select Load Bu-ray Disc.

It also allows you to load Blu-ray folder from the drop-down list of Load Blu-ray.

Step 3: Choose the output by unfolding Rip All to:, and MKV Lossless is the default Blu-ray output format to keep all the original tracks. It also lets you choose other formats when you want to rip Blu-ray.

Step 4: Click Rip All to start transcoding Blu-ray.

Like Video Converter Ultimate in part 3, you are also allowed edit the Blu-ray disc before converting.

The combination of those 2 alternatives to MakeMKV can rip both DVD and Blu-ray like MakeMKV, but they work more powerfully than MakeMKV. Besides, they are user-friendly, compared with the old interface of MakeMKV. In addition, they are more functional than MakeMKV.

If you are looking for the separate Blu-ray and DVD ripper programs, the 2 alternatives are for you exactly. If you need both DVD and Blu-ray ripping, MakeMKV will be better.

Part 4. FAQs of MakeMKV

Conclusion

MakeMKV is well known as the Blu-ray and DVD ripper on Windows and Mac computer. For someone, it is not the best option to rip Blu-ray and DVD. In this post, we collect the reviews of MakeMKV, and also list the top 2 MakeMKV alternatives to help you extract digital formats from Blu-ray and DVD.

MakeMKV is in the No.1 in your Blu-ray and DVD ripper list?

Any good Blu-ray and DVD ripper from you?

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