(Remember, use those awesome powers only for good.) You'll need a new beta key for MakeMKV roughly every two months, which you can find here (opens in new tab). This free-while-in-beta program shrugs off Blu-rays' copy protection and bundles their contents into handy, if hefty, files. But The Wirecutter has a good roundup of more recent drives that cost less and may perform even better. I used an older Samsung SE-506 (opens in new tab), which sells for around $100 and worked great. Con.To move your movies from disc to disk, you'll need: An external Blu-ray drive
For doing multiple tracks (such as episodes in a TV show), a lot of time can be saved by Adding to Queue once it starts. Barely any compromise to quality, and it moved it from a gig down to a much more manageable 70MB or so (1000 MB in a gig).ģ. Ran it through Handbrake to compress (Open Source -> find file (second option) from MakeMKV -> select destination folder -> Start Encode). However, the files directly off the DVD with MakeMKV were large. Downloaded the five separate episodes per DVD. It did an incredible job of identifying the real and fake tracks.
Not only did MakeMKV solve the Season 15 Jumping Track problem, when I did the Windows Media Player trick to find the tracks for season 14, the tracks it identified and I therefore ripped didn’t have audio. I did indeed try the MakeMKV, and it solved the Jumping Track problem.