Serving as all-in one video processing software, DVDfab not only offers DVD and Blu-ray rippers, but also includes other 25 tools to deal with media file conversion, copy, creation, decryption, etc. MakeMKV works as a 'transcoder' for users to convert videos from DVDs and Blu-rays including encrypted discs while keeping most information and data (all video and audio tracks, chapters information, meta-information) in disc without any alteration. After that, you need to separately buy the DVD Ripper and Blu-ray Ripper tools in it to implement more disc ripping tasks. You have to go to the forum for a new active one when the previous license expires.ĭVDFab is shareware that offers a 30-day trial. But the free license only works within a certain period of time. The good news is, valid beta licenses can be found on the MakeMKV forum. It allows users to unlimitedly convert DVDs for free, and purchase a registration key for Blu-ray conversion and streaming functionality after a 30-days free trial period. The ripping really doesn't take that long on most titles.MakeMKV offers both freeware and shareware functionality. Never recompress already lossy audio or video. This, and ripping my CDs to AAC, and then FLAC, taught me the lesson: Never (lossy) compress audio. Apparently I don't really watch those movies, so I haven't gone back to the original discs again to re-rip them. Now, several years later, I have a few left overs that I never got around to. Over the next few months, I replaced most of my recompressed rips with direct MakeMKV rips instead. Plus it gives me all of the original data from the disc. SO MUCH FASTER! Because it doesn't waste any time doing recompression. While searching for 'optimal compression parameters', someone here recommended MakeMKV. Then I discovered that some of my rips really didn't look very good on larger screens. My first round of DVD rips were done with Handbrake and some kind of compression, plus some selection of audio, which I think might have recompressed the audio too.

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