


MakeMKV is a dead simple app that does one thing really well: make a full-size, 1080p MKV video file from your Blu-Ray disc. RELATED: What Is an MKV File and How Do You Play Them?įirst, you’ll need to do a basic rip of your Blu-Ray. Once you have all three of these things installed, grab your favorite Blu-Ray movies and get started. It’s not strictly necessary, but it’s a waste of resources to store, play, and stream huge video files if you don’t need to. So, we’ll use Handbrake to compress your MKV files to something a little more manageable, without losing much quality.

Select an appropriate preset-iPad or Apple TV 3, for example-and then click Start. Just launch HandBrake, click the Source button, and choose the. Unless you want to watch the movie on your Mac using something like VLC to play it (which supports such files) you’ll have to convert it to an iOS compatible format. mkv, which won’t play natively on an iOS device. MakeMKV will set about creating the copy of the title. Select the one you want (the largest one in size) and click the Save Title button. When it’s finished scanning it will present you with a list of chapter’s it’s found. MakeMKV will scan the disc looking for real titles rather than fake ones that might have been created to help protect the disc from copying. MakeMKV, which you can get from Once you’ve installed it, insert your Blu-ray disc and click on its image. I’ll instead suggest a free utility called Although there are a number of utilities that claim to do it, they can be costly and some of them are promoted via spam-which also isn’t cool.
