Blu-ray to MP4: Why and How to Convert Blu-ray to MP4

Maybe you rip a Blu-ray for many reasons, backing up to your personal library , watching with media player on your PC or Mac, avoid discs damaged or torn by usage, there are many psots about "how to rip a Blu-ray disc", "how to rip a DVD disc" in Brorsoft Offcial Website, hope they are useful. Here we show you why choose MP4 when ripping a Blu-ray and then give you two methods to rip or convert Blu-ray to MP4 videos.

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Why convert Blu-ray to MP4?


MP4 is short for 'MPEG-4'. MPEG-4 technology has been developed to provide DVD quality audio and pictures in an extremely small file size - ideal for playing on portable MP4 players such as the phones, tablets and media players. And by far, all the devices and media players are all support H.264 MPEG-4 video. Just like Apple Corporation themselves describes MP4 as "the global multimedia standard, delivering professional-quality audio and video streams over a wide range of bandwidths, from cell phone to broadband and beyond".

How to Convert Blu-ray to MP4?


Convert Blu-ray to MP4 with MakeMKV and Handbrake

If you are looking to make digital backups of your favorite Blu-ray movies, you can find few better tools than MakeMKV, a freeware video transcoder that is quick and easy to use.

1. Download and install MakeMKV. The program is completely free during the beta-testing phase, but that may change anytime, so get the software while you can.

2. Put a Blu-ray movie into your PC’s Blu-ray drive, and click the Blu-ray button in the middle of the screen.

While some companies have begun to include Blu-ray Disc drives as options in their computers, Apple has stayed on the sidelines, preferring the ubiquitous DVD format, if you runing on Mac, a external Blu-ray drive is needed.MakeMKV can rip copies of your Blu-ray movies to MKV file only on your PC and Mac.

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3. MakeMKV will scan the disc to identify the titles to rip.

4.When the software is done, select the location for your movie in the Output Folder menu box, click Make MKV, and wait.

Expect an average Blu-ray disc to take at least 30 minutes to rip to your hard drive. It depends.As mentioned above, MakeMKV output MKV files ONLY!

If you wanna convert the MKV rip to more common format MP4, the Handbrake should be the best choice. Just like the "Compress DVD with Handbrake", here, you should load the CONVERTED MKV to Handbrake, and then the step is almost the same.

The method is a litter complex, both MakeMKV and Handbrake are needed, and you should do the conversion two times.

You can also choose Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper(or for Mac) as alternative to MakeMKV and Handbrake cause it can rip all the Blu-ray disc to any format such as H.264MP4MKVAVI, etc.

Convert Blu-ray to MP4 with All-in-one Program

In order to rip and convert Blu-ray to MP4 videos, including the ENCRYPTED ones, you just need the all-in-one software.
blu-ray-ripper-screenshotRequired software:  Blu-ray Ripper
Trial download: turn to Download center to get FREE TRAIL version

Most free conversion programs won't work with copy protected Blu-ray discs. Here Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper comes out, it can rip any commercial protected Blu-ray and DVD movies to nearly all popular video and audio formats including MP4, as well as MOV, MKV, AVI, AAC, MP3 as you need for playback on different devices, such as AndroidiPhone(7),HDTV, etc.

NoteBrorsoft Blu-ray Ripper can not only rip Blu-ray disc to MP4 well, but also support convert DVD to MP4 video files welll. If you want to both rip Blu-ray and DVD disc to MP4 and other digital format. There is no harm in trying Blu-ray Ripper (on sale, $33.95 only, $16 saved).

For Mac users, please keep in mind that you have download the Mac version (compatible with macOS Sierra) -- Blu-ray Ripper for Mac, Windows platform .exe files cannot be installed on Mac OS - and vice versa.

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==>Guide: How to Convert Blu-ray to MP4 Video


Step 1. Download and install Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper. Launch it and click the Load disc button to import the Blu-ray files that you want to rip and compress.

Here we take Blu-ray Ripper Windows version as example, Mac version and Blu-ray Ripper share the same steps expect the tiny difference in interface.

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Step 2. Just click on the dropdown menu of "Format", and then choose H.264 MP4 from Common Video profile list. If you want to keep 1080p resolution as source movie, you can choose HD Video > H.264 HD Video(*.mp4) as output format. Also h.265 might be worth a look, H.265 has several big advantages over H.264 including better compression, delicate image and bandwidth saving.

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Step 3. Click "Convert" button and the program will rip Blu-ray movies to H.264 or H.265 mp4 video immediately without much quality loss. You can easily find the output files in the output folders once the conversion is done.

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