You can monitor the program, MakeMKV will show how much time has elapsed and how much time is remaining. Once done with your selections assign an output folder and click the “Make MKV” button.Īfter clicking the “Make MKV” button the movie will be processed. Generally though the main audio track with be the first one listed (in this example I wanted the DTS HD Lossless English audio track). Unfortunately you may have to do a little trial and error to get the correct audio and subtitles. Now click on the black carrot which will expand the list to show all available audio, video, and subtitle tracks. It should be obvious which title is the main movie based on the description (chapters and the file size should be much greater then all other titles). Once MakeMKV is done analyzing the disc, a list of all available titles to choose from will appear. If the source is files already saved on your computer you will need to select from “File” on the toolbar. If you have a disc in your ROM drive you can simply select the correct ROM drive from the Source and click the DVD disc icon. When you first run MakeMKV you will have the option to choose the source you want to use. NOTE - whether or not you will be able to use the HD audio stream in the mkv is for another discussion MakeMKV is free while in BETA and is available for Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux.

Another interesting feature added, although I have not had a chance to test, MakeMKV can instantly stream decrypted video without intermediate conversion to wide range of players. Well, with yesterday’s release of version 1.4.10 MakeMKV now officially supports these HD Audio tracks. The one drawback (and the reason why I stopped using MakeMKV for my Blu Ray collection) has been MakeMKV did not support HD audio (such as DTS-MA or TrueHD), so you would only get the core audio when creating the mkv (the core audio is AC3 for TrueHD and DTS for DTS-MA).

It is a great little program that will decrypt your DVD (no additional software such as AnyDVD is required), allow you to pick and choose what parts of the DVD you want to keep, and put into an mkv.

I have been using a program called MakeMKV for some time now to rip my SD DVDs to mkv.

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