5 Best Blu-Ray to MKV Converters

It has been more than 10 years since Blu-ray first came out, and Blu-ray has become more and more popular. Many popular movies have now become available in Blu-ray discs for high qualities in both video and audio, just like the coolest “Inception”, “D-day Hindi”, “Oblivion”, “Star Trek”, “Dabangg 2”, “Monsters University”, “Inkaar”, “Aashiqui 2”, and so on.

Generally speaking, Blu-ray movies are played via a professional Blu-ray player. If you want to play them on other electronic devices, you need to convert Blu-ray to device-compatible format first. And if you want to retain the HD quality at the same time, then MKV format may be your first choice. To convert Blu-ray to MKV, a Blu-ray to MKV converter is without doubt necessary. Then you may ask: “Which is the best Blu-ray to MKV converter among lots of Blu-ray to MKV ripping software at present?”

If you want to get a satisfactory answer to this question, this page will meet your needs. We have collected 5 best Blu-ray to MKV converters for you here.

Part 1. Table chart of 5 best Blu-ray to MKV converters

As mentioned above, you need a Blu-ray to MKV converter tool to help you rip and convert Blu-ray movies to MKV files. Through our careful comparison and selection, we have finally screened out the below 5 best Blu-ray to MKV converters.

5 best Blu-ray to MKV converters
	Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is a piece of professional Blu-ray ripping software, capable of ripping Blu-ray to various video and audio formats such as MKV, MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, FLV, MP3, AAC, etc. With Leawo Blu-ray Ripper, you can easily convert Blu-ray/DVD movies to best supported formats for editing software or portable devices, like iPad Air, iPhone 6, Android tablets or smartphones, etc. There are many optimized formats for popular devices and software. With this Blu-ray to MKV ripping software, you can complete Blu-ray to MKV lossless conversion.
	If you are looking for a free Blu-ray to MKV converter to help you convert Blu-ray movies to MKV files, Handbrake is your best choice. It could help you not only convert video files from various formats to MKV or MP4 format, but also rip and convert Blu-ray/DVD movies to MKV or MP4 files for unlimited playback on various MKV/MP4 media players. It's an open source and free media converter. The only drawback is that it couldn't decrypt encrypted Blu-ray discs for converting to MKV/MP4 files. If you want to rip and convert encrypted Blu-ray movies to MKV/MP4, you need to turn to Leawo Blu-ray Ripper. What’s more, Handbrake is available for Windows, Mac and Linux users.
	With Pavtube BDMagic, now you can convert Blu-ray to MKV and other various video and audio formats with excellent video/audio quality at a fast conversion speed. This BD/DVD to video workaround can export various video and audio formats, like H.265/HEVC, MKV, MP4, MOV, DivX, AVI, MP3, FLAC, so you can make a duplicate copy for your Blu-ray collection, or play movies on numbers of popular media players，like Apple devices, Android smartphones and tablets, Windows media players, etc.
	DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper can rip Blu-ray to various formats including MKV for playback on specific display devices. This Blu-ray ripper adopts newest acceleration high-techs to produce fast processing speed. And it comes with advanced decoding/encoding methods to deliver fantastic audiovisual effect. It's free for licensed users to update/upgrade to handle newly released Blu-rays or to get advantage of newly added features.
	MakeMKV is No 5. best converter to convert Blu-ray to MKV, a format converter, and a transcoder. It converts the videos from proprietary (and usually encrypted) discs into MKV files, preserving most information without changing it in any way, for the MKV format can store multiple video/audio tracks with all meta-information and preserve chapters. Additionally MakeMKV can instantly stream decrypted video without intermediate conversion to wide range of players, so you can watch Blu-ray videos with your favorite player on your favorite OS or on your favorite device.

Part 2. Why Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is the best Blu-ray to MKV converter?

What’s more, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper still features other wonderful bonuses, such as the built-in video editor that could edit Blu-ray/DVD movies like trimming Blu-ray/DVD movies, adding watermark, applying 3D movie effect, etc. It even offers 3 different source content loading modes for full-movie converting or movie-only converting according to personal preferences.

Part 3. How to convert Blu-ray to MKV with Leawo Blu-ray Ripper

Now let’s take Leawo Blu-ray Ripper as an example to show you how to rip and convert Blu-ray to MKV files. It’s quite simple and fast. But beforehand, you need to firstly download and install Leawo Blu-ray Ripper on your computer via the below buttons, and get your source Blu-ray movies ready. Then follow the below guide to learn the detailed operation.

Note: Leawo Blu-ray Ripper has been built into Leawo Prof. Media as a module.

Step 1: Add source Blu-ray movie
Launch Leawo Prof. Media and then open the “Convert” module to enter the “Convert” module. Then, click “Add Blu-ray/DVD” button to add either disc from disc drive or Blu-ray movie from folder. You could also click the “Add iso file” to add Blu-ray ISO image file.

Note: 3 different Blu-ray content loading modes are available. Under Full Movie mode, you could  load all content in source Blu-ray for converting, while Main Movie mode by default chooses the longest title (generally the main movie) but enables you to select any one title for loading and converting. In Custom Mode, you will be able to select multiple titles for loading and converting. Just choose the mode and then determine which titles to load here.

Step 2: Choose output format
Click the drop-down box right before the big green “Convert” button on the sub-menu bar, and choose “Change” to choose output format. You need to choose MKV Video as output format from the “Format > Common Video” group. 

Step 3: Adjust detailed settings
After setting output format, open the drop-down button right before the big green “Convert” again and then choose “Edit” option to enter the “Profile Settings” panel, which lets you adjust video and audio parameters of output format, including: video codec, quality, bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, channel, audio codec, resolution, etc.

Step 4: Set output directory
Afterwards, click the big green “Convert” button on the sub-menu bar and then set output directory in the “Save to” box. Then click the bottom “Convert” button on the pop-up sidebar to start converting Blu-ray movies to MKV files.

Part 4. Comparison between 5 Blu-ray to MKV Converters

To let you know more about these 5 best Blu-ray to MKV converters, we have made a comparison chart. Check the chart below to get more details:

	Leawo Blu-ray Ripper	Handbrake	Pavtube BDMagic	DVDFab Blu-ray Ripper	MakeMKV
Convert Blu-ray to MKV	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Decrypt encrypted Blu-ray	Yes	No	No	No	No
Convert Blu-ray to other videos	Yes	MP4/MKV	Yes	Yes	MKV only
Edit Blu-ray movies	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Convert Blu-ray to 3D video	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Movie-only converting	Yes	No	No	No	No
Full-movie converting	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Break Blu-ray region restriction	Yes	No	No	No	No
Playback Blu-ray	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Select subtitles and audio tracks	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Available	Mac & Windows	Mac, Windows & Linux	Mac & Windows	Mac & Windows	Mac, Windows & Linux

 

Conclusion

Quite obviously, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper offers you the most powerful and practical solutions for Blu-ray converting. It’s not only limited to Blu-ray to MKV conversion. No matter what the disc protections your Blu-ray discs have been applied or where your Blu-ray discs have been released, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper could solve the disc decrypting and converting tasks easily. It’s the No.1 choice for you.