Handbrake has been my go to converter for basically all of my movies and tv shows, however now that I've started adding blu-rays to my collection I've been running into a problem.
I use MakeMKV to rip the blu-ray disc which gives me a rather large MKV file (usually around 30-40GB per movie) Now what I;d like to do is get that size down to about 3-6GB without sacrificing quality. I've tried using the high profile preset and variations on that but every file that handbrake outputs from the MKVs that I get from the Blu-rays doesn't work. Quicktime and VLC won't play them even though they are in m4v format. This only happens with feature length movies, When I ripped tv seasons from blu rays everything works fine, just like regular dvds, but movies won't work.
Can anyone share the secret to getting blu-rays into a reasonable size and still be able to have decent quality?
I use MakeMKV to rip the blu-ray disc which gives me a rather large MKV file (usually around 30-40GB per movie) Now what I;d like to do is get that size down to about 3-6GB without sacrificing quality. I've tried using the high profile preset and variations on that but every file that handbrake outputs from the MKVs that I get from the Blu-rays doesn't work. Quicktime and VLC won't play them even though they are in m4v format. This only happens with feature length movies, When I ripped tv seasons from blu rays everything works fine, just like regular dvds, but movies won't work.
Can anyone share the secret to getting blu-rays into a reasonable size and still be able to have decent quality?