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This article will show you how to Convert Blu-ray to MKV File on Mac and PC. If you own Blu-ray movies and want to make a digital copy, you can make a high definition backup of your Blu-ray discs using the MKV container, h.264 video, 5.1 audio, and subtitles. If you do this, you can save hard drive space compared to ripping it into the original M2TS directly, you still get a full HD 1080p version of the movie, and best of all, you can choose to include all of the subtitles and chapters.
When you need to back up your Blu-ray to mkv anime movie files and store tracks with all their meta-information, you have a lot of options. Today, We are going to show you how to convert Blu-ray to MKV on Mac and PC machines in a quick and easy way. It doesn’t require you to first get software to rip the Blu-ray disc onto your hard drive and then another programme to turn to an HD MKV file.
How to Convert Blu-ray to MKV File on Mac and PC
Open Blu-ray content
- Now put your Blu-ray into the BD drive on your Mac and start the programme. Click the Load Disc button on the left side of the menu bar to choose the material you want to convert. In the box that pops up, look for the movie files you want to add to the programme.
- This Blu-ray to MKV converter app also lets you drag and drop items onto the main screen.
Select “MKV” as output format and set up the output parameters
- Click on the Profile drop-down menu at the lower left corner of the window, it will pop up a small drop-down panel which including output format options.
- For the purpose of converting Blu-ray movie to MKV file format, so just click HD Video category on the left side, then pick HD MKV Video (*.mkv) as the output file type from the expanding list, a format that’s open in nature, supports DTS and AC3 audio.
- Once you’ve chosen a style, the utility will give you the best results, so you can leave this part alone. But if you’re picky about the quality of the video, you might want to change the settings by clicking the Settings button next to the Profile page. Under your personal tweaks, you can change the video codec, audio codec, quality, video size, bit rate, frame rate, and channels.
- In this case, please keep in mind that the file size and quality of the movie you get depend on how many values you set.
- If you need to convert your Blu-ray movie for a certain device, you can also use the categories that are based on the device and choose the profile for that device.
- Before the final conversion, you can improve the movies with the built-in, easy-to-use editor. This editor is simple, but it gives you the most power and lets you cut out videos: Trim, cut, split, merge, rotate, mix movies. You can add effects and overlays, menus, music, text, subtitles, and more. You can use it by clicking on the “Edit” button in the program’s window’s menu bar.
Convert your Blu-ray into MKV
- After you have the settings configured, go ahead and select a location on your HDD for the output video file via Destination field (beneath Profile menu). Please take a note, you need to make sure that the destination of the rip is going to need to be somewhere with a lot of hard drive space.
- Again, click on the blue Convert button to make it run and convert your Blu-ray to lossless MKV file. The final file is equal to the original M2TS file itself and can be anywhere between 24GB to 50GB.