The feature set isn't as broad as the likes of Wondershare Uniconverter (opens in new tab), but it does enough.Īs it doesn’t compress, MakeMKV produces larger files than other ripping programs, so you’ll need to be prepared for this with plenty of hard drive space in your PC or on an external drive ready to take the files. The app can rip from DVDs, Blu-rays and the defunct HD-DVD format, should you have a working drive laying around. ISOs are exact copies of disks that can be mounted in ‘virtual’ disk drives and act exactly like their spinning, 12cm counterparts. The program can also work with ISO files you may have saved on your PC.

All you do is point it to your DVD drive, and it does the rest. There’s nothing much in the way of configuring to do, apart from setting an output directory for your MKV files to be saved to and how long the app tries to read sections of disk that are giving it problems.

Something like The Avengers (2012) or Zootopia (2016) will usually work.Being such a simple program, MakeMKV is extremely simple to use. This is fairly simple for movies: use the title of the film, followed by the year it was released. Plex and Kodi can add movie posters and other information to your content, but only if you name your files in a way the applications can understand. That's the advantage of owning your own content without any pesky DRM. Of course, once you have a collection of movie files, you can use whatever software you want and try out something different whenever you want. By comparison, Kodi is completely free (and open-source), but it's not as seamless of an experience as Plex. There's also a Plex Pass subscription, which removes the need for the in-app purchases and unlocks other features. Plex allows you to create a server and watch content from it with the web app (or TV apps) for free, but if you want to watch your movies using the mobile Android or iOS apps, you'll have to pay an in-app purchase for each device. Once you set up a server for your movies, any other devices on your local network with Kodi installed can play the content. Kodi is an open-source media center application, with plug-ins available for playing content from a wide variety of platforms and services.

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