How to rip Blu-ray with Handbrake and it's alternative.

Facing a variety of digital formats, you must have encountered the situations to convert some of the original digital media to other formats which would be compatible with specific devices. Well, as a common digital medium, DVD has played an important role in your life which could be used in various places. But sometimes DVD disc is not compatible with some digital devices, or I should say some devices lack of the DVD player so as to play the content successfully. For example, now you have a piece of DVD disc at hand, and you want to play it on your Mac which doesn’t contain an internal DVD drive. What would you do under the circumstance? Right, things will go smoothly if you can rip the DVD to MKV format which is compatible with Mac then. How to rip the DVD to MKV? You can take use of DVD ripping programs. In terms of DVD converting programs, you must hear about Handbrake. Next, you will be introduced to more details about DVD to MKV Handbrake conversion and some necessary Handbrake settings for DVD to MKV conversion.

Part 1: How to rip Blu-ray with Handbrake
Part 2: How to rip Blu-ray with Handbrake's alternative - Leawo Blu-ray Ripper

Part 1: How to rip Blu-ray with Handbrake
Handbrake can display all of the details about the process of converting Blu-ray/DVD to 4K MP4 video so most people would think about it as the first choice to rip Blu-ray/DVD to 4K MP4. These details include the parameter setting of the output videos, video source and the destination of the output video which are all displayed on one interface. Unlike other apps which are not open and available to the users unless you pay for it, Handbrake is an open source and completely free media converter program. Furthermore, it is available for Windows, Mac and Ubuntu. Handbrake team has added the features of Blu-ray and DVD converting into Handbrake which makes it become more popular. 

Step 1. Download Handbrake and install it.
Step 2. Run Handbrake and make sure the DVD disc has circumvented the copy protection.
Step 3. Open the Handbrake and insert the content in the DVD to the main panel by clicking “Open File”.

Step 4. Set the output video parameters. Select MKV files as output format. And you can also set other parameters.

Step 5. Start the converting process. After setting the above parameters, then you only need to click “Start” button at the top and after several minutes you will obtain an MKV video.

Part 2: How to rip Blu-ray with Handbrake's alternative - Leawo Blu-ray Ripper

Before we start using the software, it is conducive for us to know what Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is.  It is a professional converter software app which can rip and convert Blu-ray/DVD to 4K MP4 videos for playback on multiple media players and portable devices such as Windows Media Player, iPad, iPhone, Surface, Galaxy S7, etc. The conversion it provides is high quality and allowing you to retain subtitles and audio tracks in output 4K MP4 videos from the source Blu-ray movies. What’s more, it could not only convert Blu-ray/DVD to 4K MP4 videos, but also convert Blu-ray/DVD to MKV, M4V, MOV and other videos and extract audio of Blu-ray movies on your computer so as to let you enjoy Blu-ray movies on various media players as you like.

Step 1: Load Blu-ray Movies

Get your source Blu-ray movies ready for loading. Kick off this Blu-ray to MP4 ripper software, open the “Blu-ray Ripper” module, and then click the “Add Blu-ray/DVD” button to browse source Blu-ray movies for loading. You could add Blu-ray disc or Blu-ray folder.

Step 2: Set MP4 as output format

Right before the big green “Convert” button, you could see a drop-down box. Click it and then select “Change” option to select “Format > Common Video > MP4 Video” or “Format > HD Video > HD MP4 Video” as output format on the popup “Profile” panel. Return to the main interface after setting output profile.

Step 3: Convert Blu-ray to MP4 videos

Click the big green “Convert” button and then set an output directory on the popup sidebar. Click the below “Convert” button to start converting Blu-ray to MP4 videos.