What benefits can bring you when copying Blu-ray to Hard drive for storage?
First of all, copying Blu-ray to computer hard drive is simply for creating digital backup of your BD disc. It will prevent your Blu-ray from scratching, cracking and other physical damages even lost. Do you know there are more than 80% Blu-ray owners will make backup of their Blu-ray? So you need if you have Blu-ray.
Secondly, 1:1 copy Blu-ray to hard drive feature enables you to keep original BDAV M2TS audio track remuxed by DTS AC3 or 5.1/7.1 Dolby passthrough, subtitle track, video track (for multi-angle BDAVs), and menu. If your hard drive is not quite spacy, then by reducing useless subtitle or audio tracks, you can save more Blu-ray movies on computer.
After then, if you simply preserve your Blu-ray movie into BD disc, you will be embarrassed by variety of Blu-ray protections, such as BD ROM Mark and BD+. They will prevent you from copies and playback of your own Blu-ray Discs. But after remove these protective measures and Decrypt Blu-ray to hard drive, you can play and enjoy BD movies on your computer or VLC, Kodi/XBMC whenever wherever you please.
How to rip Blu-ray for Hard Drive on macOS Sierra with quality reserved?
There are a lot of different methods for ripping and encoding Blu-Rays, several different encoding programs, and more than a few ripping solutions. We combed through the options to pull together the simplest, working method using the best free programs we could find.
Unlike the free program like Handbrake and MakeMKV, Dimo BDmate for Mac endows with the the powerful Blu-ray ripping capability to enable you to bypass any Blu-ray copy protection or regional code, plus the AACS encryption and the BD+ copy protection most Blu-ray discs have, copy the main movie from Blu-ray to your hard drive with original structure in 1:1 quality. Besides, this Blu-ray ripping software can transcode Blu-ray to videos in any popular format for playing on iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy, VR, Editors, etc.
Below is a simple tutorial on decrypting Blu-ray for Hard Drive. First free download the Dimo BDmate for Mac on your macOS Sierra system Macbook. For Win users, please switch to BDmate (compatible with Windows XP/7/8/10, sharing the same features as Mac version). It makes a compromise between being easy to execute without sacrificing too much quality.
Free Download BDmate for Mac/Win:
Step 1. Import Blu-ray Disc files
Insert the Blu-ray disc into your computer's hard drive and run the Dimo Blu-ray Ripper. Then click "Add Blu-ray" and import your Blu-ray movies. You can also add Blu-ray folders or ISO image files to rip.
Tip: If you need to rip Blu-ray with wanted subtitles and audio track, you can activate the build-in Dimo video player by two-finger hitting the touch bar to select your desired tracks.
Step 2 Choose output format
Click the "Select Format" option, and choose MPEG4, MOV, AVI, FLV, M4V, etc. from "Format" >"Video" the drop-drown menu with the tons of optimized preset profiles. If you want to keep 1080p resolution as source movie, you can choose those format from "HD Video" category. What’s more, it also offers an option called "Multi-track" > "Lossless MKV" or "Multi-track MP4, which enables you to keep all subtitles and DTS 5.1/7.1 passthrough when your Blu-ray contains different language and soundtracks.
Tip: If you like, you can click "Settings" to change the video encoder, resolution, frame rate, etc. as you wish. Keep in mind the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss, and vice versa.
Step 3 Start ripping and copying Blu-ray contents on your macOS Sierra
Click the “Start” button, the Blu-ray to external Hard Drive conversion will start ripping immediately. You can follow the converting process in the “Conversion” interface.
When the ripping finished within serveral minutes, you can get the output files for Hard drive via clicking on “Open” button effortlessly. Now you can transfer and play the Blu-ray copies on Hard driver with your protable devices and media players without limitation anymore.
Purchase BDmate (Win/Mac):
P.S. (Alternatively) Rip Blu-ray to .mp4, .avi, .mov, etc for storing in Hard Drive
Besides backup Blu-ray without quality lossless, the all-in-one Dimo Video Converter Ultimate for Mac also lets yourip DVD and convert videos to MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, FLV, M4V, MPEG and more. Meanwhile, the program provides the optimized preset formats for almost all popular multimedia devices and HD media players including iPhone, iPad , Samsung Galaxy Tab, Galaxy S7/S7 Edge, PS Vita, PS4 Pro, Xbox One S, and more. In a world, with the same Blu-ray backup handling capability as BDmate for Mac, you can get more powerful video processing features like build-in editor, players as well. Turn to its Win version if your computer is Windows XP/7/8/10.
Related Software:
BDmate (Mac/Win)
Lossless backup Blu-ray to MKV with all audio and subtitle tracks; Rip Blu-ray to multi-track MP4; ConvertBlu-ray to almost all popular video/audio formats and devices; Copy Blu-ray to ISO/M2TS; Share digitized Blu-ray wirelessly.
DVDmate (Mac/Win)
A professional DVD ripping and editing tool with strong ability to remove DVD protection, transcode DVD to any video and audio format, and edit DVD to create personal movie.
8K Player (Mac/Win)
A mixture of free HD/4K video player, music player, Blu-ray/DVD player, video recorder and gif maker.
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