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acuriouslad

macrumors regular
Original poster
Sep 28, 2008
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87
Australia
Hi all,

I am just getting into moving my DVD's to my Mac and in the near future am thinking of doing the same with my Blu-rays especially to make use on my iPad 3. I have been reading a lot on how iFlicks can mux a MKV if the video itself is encoded in H.264, just contained in an MKV, thus allowing a very quick process of moving from MKV to M4V so it is playable on my iPad.

Hence my question is when ripping a Blu-ray disc using MakeMKV does it encode the video as H.264 allowing the video to simply be muxed instead of re-encoded?
 

Inconsequential

macrumors 68000
Sep 12, 2007
1,978
1
Hi all,

I am just getting into moving my DVD's to my Mac and in the near future am thinking of doing the same with my Blu-rays especially to make use on my iPad 3. I have been reading a lot on how iFlicks can mux a MKV if the video itself is encoded in H.264, just contained in an MKV, thus allowing a very quick process of moving from MKV to M4V so it is playable on my iPad.

Hence my question is when ripping a Blu-ray disc using MakeMKV does it encode the video as H.264 allowing the video to simply be muxed instead of re-encoded?

MakeMKV simply rips the data from the disk.

The codec is either H264 for VC-1, depending on the distributer/company.

You would then have to re-encode the VC-1 files into H264 using something like Handbrake.
 
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