Handbrake is an excellent tool that allows you to take a movie and convert/compress it into a Mac-and-iOS-playable movie file. It's free, and it works. If you also have VLC installed Handbrake will read DVDs and convert them directly.
Blu-ray, disks, however, are not supported directly by this Handbrake/VLC combo, and that makes things frustrating. Typically you need to first rip the Blu-ray into some format that Handbrake will understand and then you can convert/compress from there. MakeMKV is one such program that will do that Blu-ray conversion. What many users don't realize, though, is that MakeMKV can be invoked on-the-fly to allow Handbrake to rip and convert/compress Blu-ray disks directly. To do this, you first need to download and put, and into your Mac's Applications folder.
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The first two are completely free, the last is a paid app but Mike Chen, MakeMKV's author, has said that all of its features will remain free while in beta. You can get an updated key at any time during this extended beta (or, you know, you can ). Once you've copied MakeMKV to your Applications folder, you need to point the OS at a special library baked inside of MakeMKV.
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If you like the quality and features of Blu-ray, and want to be able to watch discs on your Mac or convert them to other formats for viewing on other computers, all you need is a bit of hardware. Dec 13, 2016 - A couple years back, I explained how I rip Blu-ray discs. You still can't directly watch a Blu-ray disc on your Macat least not without adding. If you like the quality and features of Blu-ray, and want to be able to watch discs on your Mac or convert them to other formats for viewing on other computers, all you need is a bit of hardware.
This is the magic that will let Handbrake see your Blu-ray disks directly.