Best 5 Blu-ray Rippers to Rip and Convert Bly-ray to Popular Video Formats and Devices

With the development of optical disc technology, more and more people tend to watch movies through their Blu-ray discs. There is no doubt that Blu-ray disc has a much higher resolution than DVD and film makers also will release movies on Blu-ray for people with Blu-ray players. However, Blu-ray disc sometimes is easy to be scratched after it has been played many times. And in general, it’s hard to fix it, even totally irreparable.

So a great idea is to rip and convert these Blu-ray discs to videos in popular formats in advance. Certainly, quite a lot of people have the demand that watching the Blu-ray on their mobile devices like iPhone, iPad, Samsung phone, Google Pixel phone, etc. In this case, I will show you 5 best Blu-ray rippers including free and freeware software. Moreover, in this article, you can learn how to rip and convert Blu-ray movies to popular video formats like MKV with one of the rippers.

• Part 1: Introduction to Blu-ray
• Part 2: Best 5 Free and Freeware Blu-ray Rippers
• Part 3: How to Rip and Convert Blu-ray to MKV

Part 1: Introduction to Blu-ray

For knowing Blu-ray in detail, I will introduce Blu-ray basically. Blu-ray or Blu-ray Disc is a digital optical disc data storage format for superseding the DVD format. As we know, DVD format only can support 480p (720 x 480 pixels) and this can’t satisfy people’s demand now. However, Blu-ray can support HDTV 720p and 1080p with ease. You can even watch 2160p ultra high-definition resolution Blu-ray movie. Moreover, Blu-ray is also used for the physical distribution of video games for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. However, Blu-ray disc usually has huge storage capacity. In general, Blu-ray discs contain 25 GB per layer, with dual-layer discs (50 GB) being the industry standard for feature-length video discs.
Certainly, Blu-ray disc has many other features and you can know more details on the Wikipedia website.

Part 2: Best 5 Free or Freeware Blu-ray Rippers

Leawo Blu-ray Ripper

As a powerful Blu-ray converting program, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper can satisfy all your demands in Blu-ray converting. It can help you to rip and convert Blu-ray to video and audio in 180+ formats like MKV, MP4, AVI, etc. Moreover, you can convert Blu-ray for popular mobile devices such as iPhone, iPad, Samsung phone, Google Pixel phone, etc. And with the recent update, it can convert multi-angle Blu-ray/DVD content. Apart from converting, it has a built-in video editor. You can trim and crop video, add watermark to video, adjust video effects, even convert 2D video to 3D.

HandBrake

HandBrake is also a great tool for converting Blu-ray, DVD, and video. It supports nearly any format video to a selection of modern and possess widely supported codecs. Its biggest advantage is free, open source, and comptibility. In addition, it supports multi-platform including Windows, Mac, and Linux.

VLC

Actually, VLC is famous as an almighty media player. It can play almost all media files and supports various streaming protocols. In addition, it’s totally free and open-source. Besides as a cross-platform multimedia player, it can convert Blu-ray/DVD to video in popular formats.

VidCoder

VidCoder is much like HandBrake. Actually, it uses HandBrake as its encoding engine. It also an open-source Blu-ray/DVD converting and video transcoding program for Windows. The difference between HandBrake and it is the UI, platform support and other details.

MakeMKV

It also can convert Blu-ray/DVD content to video file. One of its highlights is using it to converting Blu-ray/DVD will be very simple because it only offers a few options for you to handle converting task and it only supports to output MKV format.

Part 3: How to Rip and Convert Blu-ray to MKV

Above 5 Blu-ray rippers, all can help you to convert Blu-ray to popular video formats. But I recommend Leawo Blu-Ray Ripper to handle this task. Because it can help you to convert Blu-ray for mobile device directly. You only need to choose the corresponding output device profile. Now follow me to realize the detailed steps.

Step 1: Load Blu-ray Content

Launch Leawo Blu-ray Ripper and choose Blu-ray Ripper module in the main interface. After that, click “Add Blu-ray/DVD > Add from CD-ROM” in the toolbar and then choose your Blu-ray disc.
Step 2: Choose Output Format or Device

Click the button (MP4 Video by default) at the right of the “Add Photo” option on the toolbar.

In the pop-up pane, click Change button and you will enter the output profile page where you need to choose preferred output format and device.
Step 3: Start Converting

After you choose output video format or device, just click the green “Convert” button at the toolbar and the converting process will start automatically. Wait for a while, you can find the output media file in the default path: C:\Users\[your username]\Documents\Leawo\Prof. Media