Create MKV from Blu-ray keeping multiple audio/subtitle tracks

Don't want to ruin your special Blu-ray collection? Intend to play Blu-ray movie in HD media player with audio and subtitle freely switched to get different languages? Thinking about to retain desired multiple subtitle or audio streams when ripping Blu-ray to MKV, so your family members from different countries can enjoy Blu-ray movies with their own native languages?

Well, have you ever expected to do anything above? I bet you do, but cannot find perfect way to do that. If you're looking for an easy and quick way to convert Blu-ray to MKV videos with optional multi- language audio/subtitle tracks, you've come to the right place. Read on for details.

Part 1: Best Blu-ray to multi-track MKV Converter Software

Part 2: How to Rip Blu-ray to MKV keeping selected audio/subtitle streams

Part 3: Why rip/convert Blu-ray to MKV?

Part 1: Best Blu-ray to multi-track MKV Converter Software

To accomplish the Blu-ray to multi-track MKV ripping task, Monstune for Mac would be the beat choice to assist you to roll off Blu-ray protection from all new released Blu-ray discs and backup commercial Blu-ray movie to MKV format (in 2D/3D, with H.264/H.265 codec, in lossless or multi-track, etc.) keeping high quality with crisp image and excellent sound. Furthermore, you can decide which subtitles, languages or audio streams you want to convert or preserve.

With this user friendly interface, this multi-track Blu-ray ripper provides us easy to use and fastest Blu-ray ripping experience and high output quality since it holds all Video/Audio/Subtitle tracks and pass-through the current title to MKV file format. So the converted MKV files have a sharp image and superb quality, almost the same as the original. Not only MKV, it also allows you to rip Blu-ray to other popular file formats, device or program preset profile formats with all the suitable parameters settings. If you are a Windows PC user, you can turn to Windows version (Windows 10 compatible), which has the same function as the Mac version. Please refer to the Blu-ray to multi-language MKV converting tutorial which help you out to create MKV from Blu-ray keeping your wanted audio or subtitle tracks.

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Part 2: How to Rip Blu-ray to MKV keeping selected audio/subtitle streams

Step 1. Load Blu-ray

Once install and run the Blu-ray to Multi-track MKV converter software, click "Add Blu-ray" button to load Blu-ray content for converting.

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. Select multi-track MKV output

Click the "Select Format" bar and choose "Lossless MKV" format. And then press "Settings" and choose the "Audio" tab to check the audio channels you want and uncheck the unwanted. Or click "Subtitle" tab to uncheck the subtitles you don't need and only leave the desired ones.

Tips:

1. If you want to customize the output video quality, you can hit the "Video" tab to set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, codec, etc.

2. This app provides various video editing features, like cut, crop, merge trimmed segments, add video effect/text watermark. If you want to edit your files, just click the "Edit" button to do it.

Step 3. Rip/Convert Blu-ray to MKV with multi-track

After all necessary settings, click the "Start" button and the software will start converting from Blu-ray to MKV automatically with wanted multiple audio tracks/subtitle streams preserved. When the conversion is over, you can click "Open" to locate the ripped MKV files and easily add them to your media player on Macbook Air/Pro, iMac etc. without any limit. Just drag the video to 8K Player or VLC player, and start playing it with different audio track or subtitles switching.

Note: DimoSoft does not advocate ripping copy-protected Blu-rays for any commercial purpose and suggests referring to the Blu-ray copyright laws in your countries before doing so.

More features in the top Blu-ray to multi-track MKV ripper:

1. Since MKV is open-sourced, it is quite easy to find a component MKV Player on both Mac OS and Windows. Meanwhile, after making MKV from Blu-ray on Mac, you are allowed to convert or share MKV to mobile devices including iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, TV, etc. wirelessly. Thus, you can enjoy MKV movies ripped from Blu-rays on portable devices when you are on a trip.

2. If you need to rip Blu-ray with wanted subtitles and audio track, you can click the drop down menu after "Subtitles" and "Audio" to select your desired tracks. To keeping all the original audio track/subtitle when copying Blu-ray, choose "Lossless MKV" from "Multi-track" as output format to lossless backup Blu-ray to MKV, or click "Add Blu-ray > Copy Blu-ray Disc to Folder" to make 1:1 Blu-ray backup on Mac.

3. Most of you are likely familiar with the excellent MakeMKV for ripping Blu-ray discs, but while it only support converting Blu-ray into a GIANT MKV file (as large as 41 GB for Blu-ray or so) with multiple audio and subtitle tracks perserved. No other formats are supported besides MKV. Moreover, it doesn't allow us to customize the video and audio codec. so you'll need to add an intermediate step. So Monstune for Mac can be taken as the alternative to MakeMKV to rip Blu-ray to MKV with multiple audio and subtitle tracks.

It works with all new Blu-ray movies and supports most popular output video formats, like MP4, AVI, FLV, MPEG, MOV, MKV, WMV, M4V, MP3, as well as 180 + portable devices or applications, including iPhone, iPod, iPad, Apple TV, Galaxy, HTC, PSP, FCP, iMovie, QuickTime, Gear VR, PSVR, etc. In addition, the best Mac MakeMKV alternative also has rich video editing functions, subtitle and audio conversion selections for you. That's why this app is better than MakeMKV for Mac.

Part 3: Why rip/convert Blu-ray to MKV?

1. MKV Preserves Complete Movie Content (Audio, Video and Subtitles)

If you have ever encoded Blu-ray movies into an AVI, MP4, or MPEG format, and been slightly frustrated with the loss of Blu-ray extra elements, then you can switch to MKV as the Blu-ray backup format. Since based future idea in mind, Matroska is able to include detailed chapter information, sub-chapters, titles, multiple audio and video streams, subtitles, attachments and custom metadata. To be exactly, by ripping Blu-ray to MKV format, you can get the entire movie with sound, subtitle tracks, thumbmail, along with menus and chapter structure, into one single MKV file.

Note: Your terminal device should recongize the MKV files and play MKV movies smoothly, not all the terminal devices are compatible with MKV files well. You can install VLC and 8K Player on your devices for playing those MKV files. Besides, Windows Media Player can play MKV file provided the codec packs are installed. In addition, WDTV Live Plus, PopCorn Hour 500 and other HDD media players support playing MKV file as well.

2. MKV Maximizes the Video/Audio Quality

MKV supports virtually any audio/video format, including MPEG1, MPEG2, H263, MPEG4, H264, WMV, FLAC, Ogg, Speex, and more, attributing to the EBML foundation of the MKV format. Accordingly, all the video and audio contents are packed into MKV file without en-decoding when copying Blu-ray to MKV file. Thus you will retain the lossless quality at a shortened processing time.

Employing MKV Vibrate Bite Rate, Monstune for Mac allows a higher bitrate (and therefore more storage space) to be allocated to the more complex segments of media files while less space is allocated to less complex segments. And the consequence is that, when rip Blu-ray to MKV video file, you can achieve better quality, smaller MKV file size and faster Blu-ray to MKV converting speed with fast mode activated.

Note: Compared to CBR (Constant Biterate) file of the same data, VBR file can produce a better quality-to-space ratio. The bits available are used more flexibly to encode the MKV sound or video data accurately, with fewer bits used in less demanding passages and more bits used in difficult-to-encode passages.

3. Ripping Blu-ray to MKV can remove Blu-ray protections

Out of antipiracy purpose, Blu-ray publishers put complicated copy protections on disc with the aim to prevent the content from being copied for commercial use. In case the protected Blu-ray discs, common Blu-ray ripper software will crash while converting Blu-ray to MKV format. Fortunately, some powerful Blu-ray to MKV rippers like Monstune for Mac can help you remove them all. It supports decrypting almost all Blu-ray with AACS encryption, lateste MKB, BD+ protection or region code.

4. Keep Soft Subtitles in ripped MKV Movies from Blu-ray

MKV is a container format more flexible that any other formats like MP4, MOV, AVI and more. It supports soft subtitles, which means you can remove audio tracks and subtitles from MKV in case of unneeded subs in Blu-ray, then remux them into an needed MKV video.

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