so you hope your drive doesn't have the 'sleep bug' that means it won't start back up again. With a UHD disk, you may have the buffer full and the disk stops.

Remember to export your queue in hopes that you can reload it and start again before you stop it. If you happen to catch the error and you're trying to rip more than one item from the disk, your choice becomes letting the rip continue (hoping no other errors occur), or aborting your whole queue to clean the dirty disk. This is why the handbrake team deprecated use of 3rd-party decryption methods over a decade ago. Handbrake will happily finish up a partial encode if you hit a smudge on the disk, with nothing reported in the logs except that the input ended. The first of which is that you toss out error handling for disk read errors. Handbrake is an excellent tool that allows you to take a movie and convert/compress it into a Mac-and-iOS-playable movie file.Running handbrake this way has several disadvantages. If you also have VLC installed Handbrake will read DVDs and convert them directly.īlu-ray, disks, however, are not supported directly by this Handbrake/VLC combo, and that makes things frustrating. Typically you need to first rip the Blu-ray into some format that Handbrake will understand and then you can convert/compress from there.

MakeMKV is one such program that will do that Blu-ray conversion. What many users don't realize, though, is that MakeMKV can be invoked on-the-fly to allow Handbrake to rip and convert/compress Blu-ray disks directly. To do this, you first need to download and put Handbrake, VLC and MakeMKV into your Mac's Applications folder.

The first two are completely free, the last is a paid app but Mike Chen, MakeMKV's author, has said that all of its features will remain free while in beta.

You can get an updated key at any time during this extended beta directly from MakeMKV (or, you know, you can buy it and support its development ).

Handbrake and makemkv