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Handbrake is the most popular application used to compress video files. The next section will walk you through that process. To reduce the size of the file, and make it more compatible with streaming devices to allow Plex to direct play the movie, you will need to encode and compress the file.

#DVDFAB RIPPER SETTINGS MOVIE#

Movie ripped and the movie file is complete In addition, the MKV file is also large - 30 to 50 GB in size depending on the movie. While you can stream this file from Plex as is, many devices, or network connections, may not be able to play such a large file without transcoding. Ripping the movie and saving it to a fileĪt this point you should now have an almost exact duplicate of the Blu-ray movie from the disc on your system in an MKV container. This will take some time to do, as the reading and saving is dependent on the speed of your Blu-ray reader. At this point MakeMKV will read the disc and extract the move information from the disc and save it to the folder you specified.

Specify the folder where you would like to output the MKV file and then click the 'Make MKV' button beside the output folder.

Selecting the individual movie streams to be ripped in MakeMKV I usually just keep all the subtitles as they don't use too much space. You can unselect the audio you won't need to save some space, but in the end, it won't matter too much. Since I am interested in the English audio stream only, I will unselect the audio streams for the other languages. At this point you can select specific streams to include in the MKV file that will be produced.

Expand the selected movie item and you will see the various video and audio streams, as well as the subtitles.

The disc space used for each item is displayed on the far right of the item (you may need to expand the size of the list if it doesn't show). The movie item is easy to see as it will be the largest item in terms of disc space.

Click the box beside the main movie item in the list.

Right-click on a blank area in the tree structure and click 'Unselect all' from the menu. Once it is done, you will see the structure displayed in the upper-left corner of the window in a tree structure list.

At this point, MakeMKV will take some time to read the structure of the movie on the disc.

The MakeMKV start window showing the source drive selection Click the large drive/disc image to continue.

MakeMKV will read the specified drive and display information about the Blu-ray disc.

Place the Blu-ray disc in the reader, and then open MakeMKV.

This is accomplished easily with MakeMKV and using the following steps: The first step in the process of streaming your Blu-rays from Plex is to rip the video and audio content from the disc to your computer.

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I usually download the non-installer version, and just extract it to the machine I use for encoding my movies with Handbrake.īefore moving to the next section, you should download and install the software.

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MediaInfo This software is optional, but I use it to display information about the movie files created by both the MakeMKV and Handbrake software. We will use this application to compress the MKV file produced by MakeMKV to make it smaller and easier to stream from Plex.

Handbrake Handbrake is probably the most popular application for encoding and compressing movie files from one format to another.

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MakeMKV is free while in beta, but if you like using the software, I highly recommend you purchase it. This application will be used to rip the Blu-ray disc to produce a high-quality copy of the movie. The following software will be used to rip the Blu-ray discs and encode and compress the movie files: MakeMKV This application runs on either Windows or Mac OS, and can easily extract the Blu-ray contents into a MKV file. While you can certainly use Linux for ripping Blu-ray discs, both of the applications I use in this post are compatible with Windows and Mac.

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