How to Make MKV Video on Computer from Blu-ray and DVD?

Part1: Why choose MKV?

Matroska file format particularly Matroska video has many advantages.

MKV is free and open. Anyone can use it freely because nobody holds patents or licenses. Thus, many hardware devices and almost any software players support it. The best software players such as VLC and MPlayer support MKV completely and are free absolutely.

MKV files don’t have additional evil features.

1. You do not need HDCP-certified video card or any “trusted” environment, and then you can play them on any capable hardware.

2. Even though your laptop lacks DVD or Blu-ray drive, or other drives, you can copy them to your laptop and watch anytime.

3. If you do not want to watch dozen trailers before the main movie, you don’t have to. And fast forward button always works, too.

4. You have control over the content you have. There are no restrictions about where you should play the file and no region-based restrictions too.

MKV files can change easily. Do you want to get rid of unnecessary audio track from the file? Want to convert MPEG-2 video into H264 in order to make the file 5 times smaller? All of these can be done easily with free software.

MKV files are compact. For the same content, MKV files are roughly 40% smaller than Blu-ray files and about 10% smaller than DVD files.