VLC media player, and they do, indeed, look great on a Mac. To watch these files, you can use the free Here I chose the 2-channel audio mix, and not the surround-sound mix.

Using MakeMKV, I chose which parts of the Blu-ray disc to rip. The resulting files are very big-one disc, a piano recital lasting two hours and 10 minutes, is about 25 GB another, a four-hour opera, is about 31 GB. Ripping is relatively quick-it took one to one-and-a-half hours for each of the two discs I ripped. This process rips the content of the disc to an MKV file-removing the copy-protection at the same time-but does not compress it. I chose specific titles, and also specific audio tracks (in my case, I left out the surround-sound mixes).

MakeMKV, I was able to choose which parts of a disc I wanted to rip. Using the currently-free-because-it’s-in-beta Forunately, Macworld Senior Editor Jonathan Seff had done the heavy lifting for me, To start with, you need to rip the Blu-ray disc to a format that you can manipulate. Written about doing this from DVDs, and assumed it would be a similar process.) So, to this end, I bought an external Blu-ray drive and set out to figure out how to get the music from my Blu-ray discs into my iTunes library. I wasn’t interested in the surround-sound mixes-I don’t have the appropriate equipment to play back music in such formats-just the stereo tracks. I recently got it into my head that I wanted to rip the audio from some of these to be able to listen to them on my office stereo. As such, I have a number of Blu-ray discs of classical concerts and operas. Regular readers of this column know that I’m a classical music fan. So our advice is: If you don’t own it, don’t do it. Currently, the law isn’t entirely clear one way or the other. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should beĪble to override its copy protection to make a backup copy or to convert its content for viewing on other devices. [Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason.

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