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Insert the Blu-ray in your burner, then launch MakeMKV. Step Three: Create an MKV file from the disc Once you have everything installed, you can then decrypt and convert the video. Update: I've written an even more detailed version, hopefully written so that even those new to Terminal/Unix can understand the process. (Here's the tl dr version: Use Homebrew.) Thankfully, Don put together a thorough how-to for installing these tools, so I won't repeat his efforts. However, in order to make Don's tools actually work, you'll need a number of other Unix apps-things like ffmpeg, mkvmerge, mkvpropedit, mp4track, mplayer, and the command line version of Handbrake.

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Ruby is bundled with macOS, so installing Don's tools is as easy as opening Terminal and typing sudo gem install video_transcoding. Installing the tools themselves is quite easy, as they're packaged as a Ruby gem. This is a set of Unix apps that handles the video conversion process. In addition to MakeMKV, you'll need the previously-mentioned video transcoding tools. However, if you find it works well for you, you should purchase a license.

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The current beta key is always posted in the MakeMKV forums, and the software is free to use while it's in beta. MakeMKV is in beta, and has been for years. As before, you'll still need MakeMKV, a $50 program that can be used to decrypt Blu-ray discs. To use this new method of ripping Blu-ray discs, you'll need some additional software.

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Keep reading to see some examples of the image quality of each method, and information on how to install and use Don's video transcoding tools. (There's also a 'big' option, if you don't mind somewhat larger files at a higher quality level.) To summarize, regardless of whether you care more about file size or ripping speed, Don's tools provide an advantage over the Handbrake GUI: Either method is notably faster, and the small option generates smaller (or probably at worst, very similar) file sizes. In addition, the file size is smaller than the Handbrake GUI version. Using the 'small' mode in Don's tools, you still save the 7GB (15%) of data copy, and still save 40 minutes (17%) over the original method. The downside is that the final file size is 2.4GB (35%) larger. Using Don's tools in 'quick' mode, you save time two ways: 7GB (15%) less data is copied to the hard drive, and the conversion process is over 90 minutes (38%) faster.

Tested on a late 2014 27' iMac with a 4GHz Core i7 and 24GB of RAM. The second and third rows use Don's tools set to quick and veryquick modes, and the final row uses Don's tools set to optimize the file size. The 'Handbrake GUI' rip was done using, well, the Handbrake GUI as described in my original article. Here's a quick comparison of all three methods, as tested with the three-hour Hamlet Blu-ray. Using these Unix programs, you can rip a disc with various parameters, including one to optimize for speed (with good image quality) and another that tries to minimize the file size. If you're new to Unix, but would still like to try these tools, I wrote a detailed set of instructions that should help get you up and running. The new method uses Don Melton's amazing video transcoding tools, a set of Unix programs that optimize video conversion in ways you cannot do (or easily do) in the Handbrake GUI. A lot of time has passed, and I now use a slightly different procedure that results in much faster rips-with the caveat that the resulting file will be larger than the 'slow' method, and is technically of slightly lower quality, though I can't visually distinguish the two. A couple years back, I explained how I rip Blu-ray discs.

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