MakeMKV does not take advantage of that, ripping a 40GB BD into 40GB mkv. The beauty of MKV/x264 is that it can compress a 40GB movie to 10GB 1080p with minute loss of quality. The trial runs I did with MakeMKV resulted in MKVs that are as large as the original Bluray media content. MakeMKV will rip your Bluray to mkv but will give you no control over the MKV's compression/quality parameters.

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. If you want to continue using it after a month, you have to buy it at 70$. I have yet to find an application that does the same thing quite as well as this does.įirst, I don't know who posted MakeMKV as a Freeware b/c it's not. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

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