2017 Top DVD to Lossless MKV Rippers Review

Diana Joan

Jun 07, 2016 02:14 am / Posted by Diana Joan | Categories: Blu-ray, DVD, Review

Are you in the embarrassing situation that you have collected so many DVD discs stacking in the cupboard, however, you don’t want to sell them even though the overflowed discs made your wife glare at you? Now, it is the time to migrate tons of DVD discs to attic or basement after backed up all the DVDs to lossless MKV.

dvd to mkv converter

Why copy DVD to lossless MKV?

Reason 1: Keep original DVD quality

MKV is such a flexible container format that supports various codes, including H.264, MPEG-2, AC3, etc. Almost all DVD movies are saved as MPEG-2 encoded .vob files with AC3 audio, in that case MKV is mostly compatible with DVD movies and it is possible to keep original MPEG-2 video codec when converting DVD VOB clips to MKV container without en-decoding, lossless video quality is retained.

Reason 2: Chapter markers, multiple audio and subtitle tracks preservation.

Lossless MKV format has the ability of containing unlimited number of video, audio and subtitle tracks, in other words, you can save entire movie content in original DVD disc with multiple sound and subtitle tracks, chapter markers and movie thumbnail into a single MKV file.

Reason 3: Wide compatibility with various multimedia players

MKV has wide compatibility with various devices and media players. When copied DVD to lossless MKV, you can stream DVD video on TV via WDTV Live , Popcorn Hour A-500 and Open Hour Chameleon without using the heavy DVD player, keeping DVD discs lying on attic and basement.

Ripping DVD to lossless MKV, you need professional DVD to lossless MKV ripper. In the marker, there are only two applications can output lossless MKV format: MakeMKV and Pavtube ByteCopy. Now, you can learn the details of these two lossless DVD to MKV converters below:

Learn best DVD to Lossless MKV Ripper

Top 1. Pavtube ByteCopy

pavtube bytecopy

Pavtube ByteCopy is an efficient and easy-to-use BD/DVD converter and can convert movies to MKV, MP4, MOV, AVI with multiple audio tracks & subtitles to virtually any popular video and audio format so that you can play movies on different devices.

Top 2. MakeMKV

MakeMKV

If you want to make a lossless copy of your BD/DVD collections, MakeMKV is a good choice. It can convert those video clips from encrypted discs into a set of MKV files, which is able to preserve all meta- information.

 

Pavtube ByteCopy

MakeMKV

Conversion object
DVD disc/ folder/ ISO Image file IFO Image file YES YES
Blu-ray disc/folder/ ISO Image file YES YES
DRM video YES YES
Main features
Full disk/directly (main movie) copy YES
Forced subtitles YES
2D/3D-3D YES
Snapshot YES
NVIDIA CUDA/AMD APP acceleration YES
Multi-track output YES
Video preview YES
Export SRT subtitles YES
Editing functions YES
Output formats
lossless MKV YES YES
multi-track MOV, MP4, AVI YES
Other common video formats YES
Common audio formats YES
Supported OS
Windows YES YES
Mac YES YES

Actually, Pavtube ByteCopy <review> overwhelms MakeMKV in almost every aspect which is quite obvious from the above-listed form.

1. Automatically detect and transcode movies with DRM protection

After putting your BD/DVD into your optical drive, and starting Pavtube ByteCopy, it will automatically identify those movies with DRM protection, and in the meantime will automatically transcode the movie. MakeMKV, though, can read those discs protected with AACS and BD+, an extra plugin is necessary to install to remove protection, which is quite complicated in operation and slow in speed.

2. Multi-track preservation

As is known from the above from, both Pavtube ByteCopy and MakeMKV can make lossless copy of BD/DVD. However, Pavtube ByteCopy can produce multi-track MKV/MP4/MOV/AVI including more than one audio stream to meet the requirements for more media players, mobile devices, etc.

Multi-track preservation

3. Various audio/video output formats

MakeMKV, as its name suggests, can only convert BDs/DVDs to MKV format. Pavtube ByteCopy, as an all-round converter, can convert BDs/DVDs to any popular audio and video formats.

Various audio/video output formats

4. Powerful BDs/DVDs backup

Pavtube ByteCopy can copy the entire BD/DVD disc content to your computer hard drive with its original structure and all audio/subtitle tracks and chapter markers preserved. In addition to its full disk copy, it can also save 100% intact BD M2TS/DVD VOB movies without extras, which is called directly copy.

5. Built-in video editor

The built-in video editor allows you to make your own favorite movie. For example, trimming video clips, cropping unwanted images, and adding subtitles, etc.

Video Editor

6. Video preview window

This is one of the most outstanding features of Pavtube ByteCopy. When you open Pavtube ByteCopy and load DVDs, on the right side of the main interface there is a small window allows you to have a smooth preview of the video you want to convert. Really a big highlight!

Video preview window

7. Other outstanding points

With Pavtube ByteCopy at hand, you are allowed to watch videos with 3D effect. Wanna take one of the video images as your desk background? Then have a try of snapshot. What’s more, Pavtube ByteCopy also can export SRT subtitles.

For more powerful functions of Pavtube ByteCopy, please visit http://www.multipelife.com/bytecopy.

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