• Freeware Blu Ray Ripper

Since the late '90s, Macs have welcomed DVD movies. Pop a disc in your drive, watch Apple's DVD Player app open, and enjoy the show. Simple. But DVDs' high-definition successors, Blu-rays, never got the same warm reception. Today, the right third-party hardware and software will let you play Blu-ray discs on your Mac. But, uh … maybe you shouldn't?

As the best Mac Blu-ray DVD ripper software for Mac, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is able to decrypt, rip and convert Blu-ray/DVD disc of any kind, remove protection upon Blu-ray/DVD disc, and unlock Blu-ray/DVD disc region code. Decrypt and rip Blu-ray/DVD disc for converting.

Tell us how you really feel, Steve

Playing, editing and watching Blu-ray/DVD movies anywhere is no longer a troublesome issue. With this Blu-ray ripper Mac software, you can easily convert Blu-ray/DVD to any prevailed SD/HD and even UHH 4K video and audio formats like MP4, AVI, H.265/HEVC, H.264, WMV, MOV, FLV, MKV, 3GP, MPEG, TP, TRP, HD AVI, HD WMV, HD MOV, etc.Moreover, you can directly rip your Blu-ray/DVD for editing with. To see if I could rip a Blu-ray disc, I downloaded the free MakeMKV beta, a DVD- and Blu-ray-ripping application for OS X and Windows. I borrowed a Buffalo Technology MediaStation 8X External. ImElfin Blu-Ray Ripper for Mac is a software that provides users with the best and easy-to-use Blu-ray ripping and transferring performance and it is designed to Rip Blu-ray discs/ M2TS and 3D Blu. However, with unique preview capabilities, quality video output along with a Mac version apt for Apple devotees, Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper proves to be a decent application. IToolSoft Blu-Ray DVD Copy Review. The iToolSoft Blu-Ray Ripper is really a Blu-Ray to DVD.

Steve Jobs famously hated the licensing hurdles and hefty fees Blu-ray imposed. With his characteristic taciturn restraint, he publicly called the format a 'bag of hurt' and likened the groups behind it to the Mafia. Apple never built Blu-ray drives into Macs, and eventually ditched optical drives altogether to focus on selling movies through iTunes.

But some Mac users still need to burn their own Blu-rays or read data off BD discs, so there are plenty of third-party Blu-ray drives available for the Mac. And once those drives became available, a few enterprising companies who did (presumably) pay up for the keys to decrypt Blu-ray discs released Mac apps to play regular Blu-ray movies with those drives.

Unfortunately, searching for mac Blu-ray player online gets you a lot of highly suspect sites with creatively translated English, each pitching their own totally not-at-all-questionable video player that may or may not actually play Blu-ray discs. But there are a few options respectable enough to make it into the Mac App Store. We'll discuss those in a moment, but first, let's talk about another app that sounds like a good idea, but really isn't.

Blu-rays on VLC

VLC is a justly beloved open-source video player — free, robust, and able to play tons of different formats. With the right tinkering, Blu-ray can be one of them. But playing Blu-rays on VLC is like free-climbing a skyscraper without safety equipment: Sure, it's technically possible, but it's also incredibly difficult, full of drawbacks, and almost certainly a bad idea.

For starters, the site I originally used to find the right files that would supposedly enable Blu-ray playback on VLC is, as of this writing, no longer capable of establishing secure connections. (Which is why I'm not linking to it here.)

When it was up and running, its sparse instructions didn't seem to work, and I had to go digging for another site's advice to get VLC playing even sort of nice with Blu-ray. Then I had to separately install Java to have any hope of getting Blu-ray interactive menus working.

Even after all that, VLC wouldn't play most discs I tried with it, ominously warning me of revoked certificates and other things that sound like they involve well-paid lawyers. And when it did play discs, it refused to let me skip past the annoying preview video tracks before the movie; sometimes, trying to do so just dumped me back at the beginning of them.

VLC works great for lots of things. Blu-ray playback isn't one of them. Just don't do it. Especially when you've got another free and far more legitimate option waiting for you in the Mac App Store.

Leawo Blu-ray Player

The two currently available Mac Blu-ray apps come from Chinese companies. Shenzhen-based Leawo's is by far the cheaper – as in, it's free – and while it's perfectly adequate, you definitely get what you pay for.

I tested Leawo's player with a selection of discs from every major studio (plus Criterion, for you cinephiles out there), ranging from titles I bought back in 2009 to discs released in 2018. They all played just fine, with a crisp picture and clear sound. Leawo's menus let me easily switch audio and subtitle tracks, and jump between different video files on the disc with a Playlist option. And unlike hardware Blu-ray players, it's not region-locked, so you can watch discs from all over the world.

But bones don't get much barer than Leawo's offering. It doesn't support Blu-ray menus at all; if you want to view special features, you'll need to guess at their location from the Playlist menu. If you're dying to watch, say, The Sound of Music's pop-over interactive commentary with sing-along mode, Leawo's app will not be one of your favorite things.

The app takes a solid minute (I timed it) just to load a disc, a process that requires multiple un-intuitive menu clicks, and whoever ported it into Mac didn't bother to change the drab Windows-like interface.

If you just want to watch Blu-rays on your Mac, Leawo will definitely do that. It's perfectly serviceable. It doesn't seem to install spyware or bother you with ads. But there's a better (and considerably more expensive) choice if you want a more robust experience.

Macgo Blu-ray Player Pro

Hong Kong-based Macgo's Blu-ray Player Pro usually sells for a whopping $79.95, though you can watch for frequent sales that will knock the price down to a still-lofty $39.95. On the App Store, with a 'family' license to run on multiple Macs, it'll cost you $64.99. (There's a marginally cheaper non-Pro version, but like Leawo's app, it doesn't fully support menus, so why bother?)

For that price, you'll get an experience nearly identical to popping a disc into any regular Blu-ray player. Macgo's app played my test discs flawlessly, with full support for menus and a virtual remote that even mirrored the what-are-they-even-there-for red, blue, green, and yellow buttons on the average Blu-ray remote. Its interface isn't Mac-like, but it's clean, intuitive, and unobtrusively minimal.

Discs loaded quickly — 15 seconds, tops – and played the same pre-roll ads and trailers they would in a hardware player, though thankfully, I could skip them just as easily as I would elsewhere. The app offers hardware acceleration for smoother playback, though aside from loading speed, I didn't notice a difference in quality between it and Leawo's app. Macgo's app even supports BD-Live online features, though you'll have to go into the Preferences to turn that feature on; it's switched off by default. I couldn't tell or test whether Macgo's app was region-free, but I'd be surprised if it weren't.

The only shortfall I found in Macgo's app, besides its price, was its lack of support for 3D or 4K UHD Blu-rays. I'm sure that's a dealbreaker for some folks, but most users probably won't lament it.

Maybe just don't

In hindsight, Steve Jobs may have been right to keep Blu-ray drives out of Macs. On a laptop screen, you may not be able to fully enjoy the HD splendor of a great Blu-ray picture. (And hauling around an external drive plus discs would make the experience a lot less portable.) Desktop Macs with big screens already have Netflix, iTunes, and lots of other less noisy and expensive ways to watch HD movies.

Freeware Blu Ray Ripper

For the same $120 - $180 you'd shell out for Macgo's app and a good external drive, you could buy a decent Blu-ray player to hook up to your big-screen TV. (Reputable names like Sony and LG offer region-free players you can score for $100 or less with a little comparison-shopping.)

If you don't own a TV or a Blu-ray player, do own a Mac, already own an external Blu-ray drive for some other purpose – like ripping the Blu-ray discs you own for your personal digital collection – and really, really want to watch Blu-rays specifically off the discs, you'll likely be pleased with Macgo's app, and reasonably satisfied with Leawo's.

But with so many other, less troublesome ways to watch movies on your Mac, maybe you're better off leaving this particular bag of hurt alone.

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What is Ultra HD Blu-ray?

Ultra HD Blu-ray, as the name suggests, it supports 4K Ultra HD, which offers about 8.3 million pixels - that's four times what you get in Full HD/1080p. When you cram more pixels into the same sized TV screens, you get a sharper, clearer picture. It's not just about sharpness, either. UHD Blu-ray also adds all sorts of useful things like High Dynamic Range (HDR) and new-gen audio standards like Dolby Atmos. HDR is a new standard designed to deliver a wider range of colour, brightness and contrast, in theory taking the picture a lot closer to what our eyes are capable of perceiving. Dolby Atmos, meanwhile, is an audio upgrade, essentially offering more subtlety and location precision to sound effects.

What do you need to watch a UHD Blu-ray

Sadly, Ultra HD discs won't play on a normal Blu-ray player, though you can play older Blu-ray discs on an Ultra HD player. In order to get a true 4K experience, remember that you'll need an Ultra HD Blu-ray player, an Ultra HD TV and some discs, obviously. There are a few important caveats, though.

First, you'll need to make sure your TV supports at least the HDMI 2.0 standard. Most TVs from the last year or so will, but very cheap models and some models from 2014 or earlier might not. Check your manual or Google the model number to find out - the even newer HDMI 2.1 standard should also be fine.

If you don't have a 4K TV, your 4K Blu-ray player will still work, but it will only display images in 1080p. Buy a regular Blu-ray instead of a 4K version and it will still play in 3840 X 2160 resolution, but it won't be a native 4K image and will be noticeably different than had you used an Ultra HD Blu-ray.

There's no denying Ultra HD Blu-ray and 4K TVs are luxuries, but they're luxuries worth having. And if you want the absolute best possible picture from your 4K TV, Ultra HD Blu-ray is where you'll find it.

What if you have no 4K Blu-ray Player or have no plan to buy one? Don't worry! There are always solutions out there. You can use a Blu-ray ripping tool to rip/convert 4K UHD Blu-ray to digital files for streaming to 4K TV without needing a 4K Blu-ray player.

Best UHD 4K Blu-ray Ripper - EaseFab LosslessCopy

In fact, there are many Blu-ray ripping tools on the market that can deal with common Blu-ray discs. However, when it comes to dealing with 4K Blu-ray discs, many Blu-ray rippers fail to rip it cause a 4K Blu-ray has higher and stricter encyption and normal Blu-ray decrypter cannot bypass all the copyright protection. Feel frustrated? Don't worry! There is still one 4K Blu-ray ripping tool that can offer nearly perfect work to handle UHD 4K Blu-ray Rippers. The tool we highly recommend here is called EaseFab LosslessCopy (available for Windows and Mac users), which can rip, convert and copy 4K Blu-ray discs seamlessly and losslessly.

How The 4K Blu-ray Ripper Works

Every commercial Blu-ray disc contains what's called a disc image (or ISO file). Which is essentially the blueprint for a disc. It contains the all of the videos, audio, menus, bonus tracks and file structure needed to play a disc in a Blu-ray player or drive. The best 4K Blu-ray Ripper scans your discs for its ISO file, extracts it and saves it onto your hard drive in digital format such as popular MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV, etc.

The UHD 4K Blu-ray Ripper Output Options

A 4K Blu-ray disc will be 50GB - 100GB. Full copy 4K Blu-ray disc to hard drive will take too much space. EaseFab LosslessCopy can directly extract the M2TS file which is the main title movie in the 4K Blu-ray without preserving other extras. Besides, you can also use the UHD Blu-ray Ripper to entire copy the 4K Blu-ray disc to a folder devided into BDMV folder and CERTIFICATE folder, making an exact copy, indistinguishable from the original. This way can contain the reviews, ads, subtitles, extras and other everything in the 4K Blu-ray disc, no any loss.

Besides creating an exact 1:1 copies of 4K Blu-ray disc, LosslessCopy can also export almost all popular video formats like MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, MOV, FLV, M3U8 formats for more convenient playback. It even can create 3D SBS/TB/Anaglyph MP4, 3D MKV, 3D WMV for Daydream View, PS VR, Gear VR, VR Box 2.0, Oculus Rift CV1, Oculus Rift DK2, HTC Vive, etc. What's more, EaseFab LosslessCopy can rip 4K Blu-ray to HEVC MKV, H.265 MP4 keeping 4K resolution.

Normally, Blu-ray contains DTS, AAC, Linear PCM (LPCM), Dolby Digital (DD), Dolby Digital Plus (DD+), Dolby TrueHD, DTS Digital Surround, DTS-HD High Resolution Audio, DTS-HD Master Audio. The best 4K Blu-ray Ripper can allow you to rip 4K Blu-ray keeping DTS-HD Master Audio, DTS Digital Surround, etc audio.

If you want to keep menus, chapter selection, subtitles and extra audio tracks when converting 4K Blu-ray to digital files, LosslessCopy can rip 4K Blu-ray to lossless/uncompressed MKV container. LosslessCopy also remux it to mkv format. This way you will get a huge, but unprotected, easy to use and store mkv file that contains the exact video and audio streams as your Blu-ray disc quality and size-wise.

4K Blu-ray Ripper Customization During Ripping

Sometimes you don't want or need everything on a 4K Blu-ray disc. The award-winning 4K Blu-ray ripping program allows you to pick and choose which video codec, resolution, bitrate, frame rate and audio codec, channel, bitrate, subtitle track, video aspect ratio to output. This is a good feature if you need to compress 4K Blu-ray to 1080p video for HD display or load 4K Blu-ray onto a smaller external hard drive.

4K Blu-ray Time Consuming

It should be time-consuming to rip a 4K Blu-ray disc to hard drive, especially encoding 4K Blu-ray to HEVC codec video in that HEVC encoding is GPU-taking. We found it takes up to five hours to complete a full disc-to-disc copy. Similarly, compressing a 4K Blu-ray movie to fit onto a normal media player can take up to 8 hours. This is true no matter what 4K Blu-ray copy software application you choose.

EaseFab LosslessCopy have joined 30x realtime 4K HEVC encoder with NVIDIA CUDA hardware acceleration. On the condition that your computer is geared with a CUDA-enabled GPU, you can re-encode 4K Blu-ray to H.265 and H.264 video up to 30x times Blu-ray ripping speed which can massively reduce the while 4K Blu-ray ripping time.

In addition, when you choose to entire copy 4K Blu-ray to folder, LosslessCopy can batch copy multiple 4K Blu-ray discs.

4K Blu-ray Ripper Ease-of-Use Feature

Copying Blu-ray discs is a technical and often confusing process. The best 4K Blu-ray copy software distills the process down to its simplest form. The intuitive even childlish interface makes each person know the meaning of each button and the next step.

Just load your 4K Blu-ray movies into the 4K Blu-ray decrypter. Choose the desired format then you can start the process. You can simply finish 4K Blu-ray ripping and copying withink 3 clicks.

How to use LosslessCopy to rip, convert and backup 4K UHD Blu-ray discs?

Step 1: Insert the 4K Blu-ray disc to the BD drive and then click the Load Disc button to have Blu-ray/DVD movies uploaded to EaseFab LosslessCopy. You can also import BD/DVD ISO files, IFO files or Blu-ray/DVD folder for conversion.

Note: When importing a Blu-ray disc, please make sure that your PC has been equipped with an external or internal Blu-ray drive to recognize your Blu-ray disc.

Step 2: Click on Format bar, select 'Common Video' from the format list and in submenu you can find 'H.265 Video(*.mp4)'. The hit on the small folder icon to specify an output folder.

Tips: If you want to do some advanced settings, you can click 'Settings' icon to adjust the video, audio parameters bitare, frame rate, sample rate, audio channel, etc. Plus, you can click 'Edit' button to do some editing work cropping, trimming, settings effect, adding subtitles.

Step 3: Click 'Convert' button and the program will rip Blu-ray movies to H.265 mp4/mkv video immediately. You can easily find the output files in the output folders once the conversion is done.

Once the conversion is done, click Open button to locate the results videos in H.265 codec. The final videos bring you the smaller size as possible with near zero quality loss.