Play Blu-ray via Kodi in MKV With DTS 5.1 Audio

Kodi (XBMC) media server makes it easy for you to get movies free to play on your iPad, Android tablet/phone and your laptop. It is an ideal way to enjoy your movie collection, even for your tons of Blu-ray discs. But this is only for unencrypted one. For those Blu-ray discs which have complex copy protection and region codes, you have to break the protection and remove the region codes before playing Blu-ray via Kodi. 



When you are considering to ripping Blu-ray to Kodi, MKV with DTS 5.1 audio is an perfect target format considering the video and audio effect. MKV can be accepted by Kodi definitely and on the other hand, it can include video, audio, and features such as alternate audio tracks, multilingual subtitles and chapter points, as well as rich metadata including cover art, ratings, descriptions and more. To achieve this, a good Blu-ray Ripper is the key point. 

Pavtube ByteCopy <review> is a professional Blu-ray to MKV converter which can offer SD MKV, HD MKV, and lossless MKV with multi-track subtitle/audio and all chapter markers keeping 5.1, even 7.1 surround sound. It allows you to uncheck the subtitle/audio track that you don’t want and adjust video size/bitrate to let you cram more Blu-ray movies for playback on Kodi.

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How to Rip Blu-ray to MKV With DTS 5.1 Audio for Watching via Kodi?

Step 1: Add Blu-ray movies

Download this Blu-ray to DTS 5.1 MKV converter (Mac version) and run it. Click the “Load disc” icon to import movie files from Blu-ray Disc.



Step 2: Choose MKV format

Click “Format” bar to choose the output format. To preserve riginal Dolby TrueHD 5.1 audio for Blu-ray movie ripping, you can select “Lossless/encoded multi-track MKV (* mkv)” from “Multi-track Video”. Or you can choose MKV or HD MKV from “Common Video” or “HD Video” (Learn Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio)



Tip：If your storage space, like internal drive doesn’t have too much space, you can adjust file size in “Settings”. Bitrate is the key to decide the output video size. You can adjust it to a lower standard. Size is another point to file size. Of course,  if you are never going to listen to the french track why not unchecking the audio track even though audio tracks may not be an enormous saving.



Step 3: Start ripping Blu-ray to Kodi in MKV

Hit the big “Convert” button, it will start converting Blu-ray movies to MKV with DTS 5.1 audio for Kodi. This process will cost some time depending on the original Blu-ray size, you computer configuration, network speed. 

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Tips: Compare Pavtube ByteCopy and other Blu-ray to MKV Converter software

MKV Output	Pavtube ByteCopy	Pavtube BDMagic	Pavtube Video Converter Ultimate	MakeMKV	Tipard Blu-ray Converter
2160p MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	Yes
1440p MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	Yes
1080p MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	Yes
720p MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	Yes
540p MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	Yes
480p MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	Yes
360p MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	Yes
16:9 MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	Yes
4:3 MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	Yes
3:2 MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	Yes
3D SBS MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	NO
3D TB MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	NO
3D Anaglyph MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	NO	NO
Lossless MKV	Yes	NO	NO	Yes	NO