MakeMKV
Rip DVD and Blu-Ray discs to MKV format with lossless preservation of video, audio, chapters, and subtitles. Supports decryption of protected discs, multi-track selection, and streaming output. Retains original quality and meta-data for personal backups.
Cost / License
- Freemium (Pay once)
- Proprietary
Application types
Platforms
- Mac
- Windows
- Linux
- Kodi
Features
- Video Converter
- Audio Conversion
- Blu-Ray ripping
Tags
- bluray-ripper
- DVD Decrypter
- blu-ray-decrypter
- remux
- bluray
MakeMKV News & Activities
Recent News
Recent activities
ConvertOnline added MakeMKV as alternative to ConvertOnline
dvdconverter added MakeMKV as alternative to DvdConverter.app- POX updated MakeMKV
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What is MakeMKV?
MakeMKV is a program designed for ripping DVD and Blu-Ray disc video. It works by decrypting proprietary discs to transfer codecs from the formats VOB and M2TS into MKV, preserving the necessary data without doing any lossy codec conversion. The MKV format was chosen because of Matroska's goal to make a file format that acts like a DVD, with its simple container design to store any amount of video/audio tracks, with all meta-information including chapters. MakeMKV can also stream the output.
[MakeMKV is free while in BETA. During BETA, Blu-ray decryption and processing is free, however even after BETA, DVD decryption will remain free. The beta key expires periodically, in part to make sure people remember to stay current with the beta, and in part to encourage you to buy your own permanent key, which won't expire.]
MakeMKV information
Developed by
GuinpinSoft inc. Licensing
Proprietary and Freemium product.Pricing
One time purchase (perpetual license) that costs $60 + free version with limited functionality.Rating
Average rating of 4.2Alternatives
68 alternatives listedSupported Languages
- English
Comments and Reviews
Most fasted and automated way to take video content from disks without to much compression loss.
It's fast, easy to use, and preserves the original quality of the video and audio.
I used the free version for a while, but eventually bought a license as I do a lot of ripping. Every movie I buy gets ripped to a server in my basement and I put the original away in a safe place. It works for 99.9% of the blurays I have tried with it. Interface is straightforward and easy to use.
This program makes it easy to select what one wants to extract (audio tracks, subtitles) from media or video folders. It works very quickly, however... size of files form DVD are huge - VidCoder (Handbrake) yields much more compact files of the very same quality, although takes quite more time.
I've been using MakeMKV for a while to back up my movies to my laptop so that when I want to lie in bed and watch a movie on my laptop, or bring my favourite movies with me when I'm travelling, I don't have to think about bringing an optical drive and all of the disks in a pouch. I also did the same thing for my mother while she has been in hospital, which saved her from the horror that is daytime TV when she didn't have access to Netflix or Amazon Prime.
The files that do come out of MakeMKV are big, but in all honesty, it's not that much hassle to then put it into another application to compress. Combine MakeMKV with Handbrake or another similar application, and you can easily take a whole collection of movies and TV shows with you, or back them all up to access from around your house on a NAS or a media server. Particularly if you have a collection with a lot of difficult-to-source shows or movies (I have a few horror and dramas from Japan that have been difficult to source) or movies from multiple regions, this will save you from having to buy the movies twice.
While I haven't purchased YET (purchase isn't necessary during Beta, however a new registration code will be needed every now and again), I have every intention to when payday next comes around as it will be worth every penny. I have yet to find an application that does the same thing quite as well as this does.
First, I don't know who posted MakeMKV as a Freeware b/c it's not. It is a shareware. If you want to continue using it after a month, you have to buy it at 70$.
Next, I've used MakeMKV and cannot understand how they can expect to get any sales at that price when the software is so highly limited in it's functionality and usefulness. MakeMKV will rip your Bluray to mkv but will give you no control over the MKV's compression/quality parameters.
The trial runs I did with MakeMKV resulted in MKVs that are as large as the original Bluray media content. The beauty of MKV/x264 is that it can compress a 40GB movie to 10GB @ 1080p with minute loss of quality. MakeMKV does not take advantage of that, ripping a 40GB BD into 40GB mkv. How useful is that! At 70$ for a software that doesn't do it's job correctly, not very...
An alternative to to MakeMKV, would be to dump a decrypted version of the BD with the software of your choice (I used DVDFab) and the convert it to MP4/MKV using RipBOT264 which incendentally is free and it provided with a much larger level of control on quality and compression.
[Edited by MonkeyFiend, December 19]
[Edited by MonkeyFiend, December 19]
you are a vapid brainlet. makemkv's purpose is to rip blu rays to mkv, not compress them. the fact it creates a perfect image of the disk's content in the mkv format is exactly what it was made for.
It does not convert the media into different formats, so it's actually a converter. Just to clear that up. So if you want to fit an 5GB movie on a 4GB DVD, this is not the program for you.