You can of course just ripped it all and make your choices in HandBrake instead. For example enable/disable certain audio tracks, and subtitles. You can, optionally, check or uncheck sub-items of a title. You can optionally uncheck the 3 small ones – or not and see later what they are really about. The other 3 are probably extras or menu’s (only a few hundred MB). MakeMKV by default checks all titles, but by the size you can se that the first title is the featured movie (35.1 GB). In the example above you’ll see that after a few seconds MakeMKV found 4 titles ( 1) – Check the titles and sub-items you’d like to rip. MacOS X MakeMKV – Detected titles on your Blu-Ray disc Most Linux distributions, like Ubuntu, come with some sorts of package management tool, where APT is probably one of the most popular ones. To install HandBrake for Ubuntu (11+) open a shell and type: Since MakeMKV is dealing with this part (the decrypting of the disc), this addon is not needed. Note that in the articles where we use HandBrake to rip DVD’s, an additional library needs to be installed called “libdvdcss”. HandBrake can be downloaded from Tweaking 4All, but we recommend that you get the latest version from the HandBrake website. Linux user should you follow the MakeMKV forum instructions. MakeMKV is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS X. After 30 days you’ll have to reinstall it and another 30 day “trial” will work. MakeMKV is free at the moment, not sure if that will change in the future, but it has a 30 day use limit.

The MKV file(s) MakeMKV creates however are huge (30 Gb and more) as it’s a full, not transcoded, copy of your DVD or Blu-Ray disc.

The HandBrake conversion is optional, since MakeMKV already creates and MKV. HandBrake is totally free and an awesome tool to rip DVD’s and convert video files (guides: MacOS X, Windows, Linux). To copy or rip a Blu-Ray to MP4 or MKV we will use both MakeMKV and HandBrake – both are free. Method: Rip with MakeMKV and Convert with HandBrake

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