How to Rip 4K & Blu-Ray Movies | The Official Guide

you won't believe how incredibly easy it is to take your Blu-rays and 4K movies and rip them straight to your PC using free software online and you may already have the DVD driver do it let's get to it greetings everyone I'm Mike your sifu into all things AV and Tech if you end up getting something from this video a quick slap on the like button and your subscription to the channel would be greatly appreciated to keep the gears turning folks it couldn't be any easier to rip your 4K and Blu-ray movies straight to your PC so that you can create your own personal Netflix this is what I'm doing and I'm going to show you how I hate when people over complicate things by diving too deep into the tech mumbo jumbo so I am going to give it to you straight the first thing you're going to need is inside this box and no so I'm sorry to disappoint you guys it is not the Box devil hello it's an actual external 4K UHD drive for my PC all right here's the deal I looked online thinking an internal drive would be cheaper and more efficient however the price with the external enclosure on Amazon came out to more than what I actually paid for that external drive which is plug and play with no drama not every 4K Drive will work with the free software and the most annoying thing now is when it seemingly does work and then the manufacturer releases firmware updates to prevent it from ripping in the future this is a gamble we must face going down this route this has happened to many drives so buyers beware I'll leave a link to the Forum thread that will keep you relatively up to date on the compatible drives and firmware updates so you're always in the know now there are ways to jailbreak certain older models of optical drives and I will put links to those models down below however my PC doesn't have Drive Bays that support Optical drives and I didn't want to go through the trouble to find a used one on eBay with unknown miles than having to put it in the 50 enclosure and then perform the process of jailbreaking it no thanks but hey if that's the route you want to take or if you already have one of these drives capable of this jailbreak then it's not a hard process us and I encourage you to do so for argument's sake we will be using this brand fresh Drive I picked up on Amazon a few days ago for 124 bucks it's the archon premium and was recommended as one of the compatible drives for the make MKV software which is the free software we will be using for this tutorial totally free now at this point I expect you to have your drive plugged into your PC or laptop preferably via USB 3.0 you're going to need massive amounts of storage if you're ripping 4K movies since they are in or around 60 gigs per movie this adds up quick when I did this tutorial previously I only ripped Blu-rays and it ate up an entire 10 terabyte hard drive quicker than I expected so buy a huge hard drive or invest in a Nas let's make that our word of the day network attached storage or Nas is a dedicated device or server that connects to a network and provides centralized data storage and file sharing services to multiple users and devices it allows for easy data access and management typically through a web interface and can be used for backups media streaming and collaborative work in homes and businesses Nas devices are known for their flexibility scalability and the ability to store and retrieve data efficiently over a network I highly recommend this if your goal here is to create a database of movies to watch anywhere you want by accessing your server this can also work for music as well this could be your own personal Spotify and Netflix using your own store-bought physical media okay so now you have your drive and your storage solution next we need to download and prepare the software as I mentioned we are going with free I love that word free software called make MKV which I have used in the past and I trust it no nasties no viruses it's legit all you need to do is go to the link below makemkb.com install it as you would any other application and you're almost there so remember when I said the drive I purchased was Plug and Play yeah no it wasn't so just because it's compatible with a make MKV doesn't mean it's ready for the lead but a disc which is the service that bypasses all the security measures on these 4K discs so I went to the make mkb forum and here's how to jailbreak this archon drive the archon drive is manufactured with the LG bu40n internal drive just with a fancy brushed aluminum case which is nice I downloaded two zip files from The Forum I will actually link directly to these files in the description below it's called the SDF tool flasher and the all you need firmware pack it's nice to have an entire subculture dedicated to this type of thing makes life much easier thank you Marty mcnutts for this once you open the SDF tool flasher you're going to select your drive that you want to flash and then from the all you need folder you want to select the LGB u40n1.03mk file and then the Flash and then Flash the sucker once finished I would power cycle your drive and fire up make MKV oh one more thing before attempt to rip your 4K disk make sure to download and install Java runtime environment because this program won't work without it super simple once you installed everything should be right as rain once you fire up the program make mkb will obviously recognize the disk in this case I have hacksaw Ridge so what you're going to want to do is go here to the right area of the screen and you're gonna check out a couple things so obviously my drive is enabled if you have a drive that's compatible but it hasn't been jailbroken yet it's going to be possible it's going to say possible right here so you're going to want to do the jailbreak and everything and it's gonna once you do everything right it's gonna look just like this like I have it here you're going to want to make sure it says mt1959 so if the drive you put in does not say mt1959 it probably or actually more than likely won't be compatible with this uh software so what you're going to do when you you know want to go ahead and uh you know rip the MKV is go ahead and hit this this little thing there and once you hit that you're going this is going to open up and you're going to be actually I'm going to go ahead and expand this you're going to be taken to another area here once it's done reading the Blu-ray and I'm going to show you right now as you can see it does take a little bit of time to read the Blu-ray but once it's finished it's going to take you to this page okay now that we're at this page here is where you're basically going to select what you're going to rip now for me I don't really care about extra content or anything like that so I'm going to go ahead and automatically unclick those because that's just extra content and just BS in there so this is the one I want the big one the big Juggernaut 74.7 gigabytes sheesh so like I said you need big storage guys so here we're gonna see true HD surround sound that's going to be your Dolby Atmos that's going to be the best sound you got video you're not going to mess with video is going to always going to be videos so you're going to look at true HD surround sound you're going to want that Dolby Digital surround 5.1 for people that can't do you know Dolby Atmos and all that crazy stuff definitely get that one I don't need it in Spanish uh stereo whatever I guess stereo uh subtitles English English that's good Spanish I don't need it and that's it that's all you're going to do you're gonna go back here and you're gonna go ahead and go to this part actually I'll go ahead and minimize it now you're gonna go ahead right here and hit make MKV it's going to give you a directory okay so this is important part you're going to want to set the output folder so this is where this thing's going to rip too so if you have an external hard drive or you have a hard drive specified for this project that's where you're going to want to uh you know allow this to Output too so once you decide on that you're going to go ahead and hit and make MKV and it's going to go ahead and go through the process it's probably going to take about an hour and a half maybe two hours depending on how fast everything's going but that's going to be it and that's it folks easy peasy lemon squeezy if you have any further questions or need extra help either drop me a comment down below otherwise I would definitely like encourage you to use the Forum linked down below as well as a resource for your particular setup because everybody's as different stay tuned because in the next video I'll be showing you how to assemble your very own DIY video streaming device just like an Nvidia Shield which freaking awesome if you enjoyed the content and got something from it hack the like button that's when I decided to hack you which makes me the one in control subscribe to the channel to help me grow and ring 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Channel: Michael Andrew

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Length: 8min 59sec (539 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 27 2023