Handbrake is free and can rip blu-ray but is very much built to transcode and doesn't fit the MakeMKV niche if "take mpeg/m2ts stream from the disc and put it in an mkv." mkvtoolnix puts things into MKVs but it doesn't seem to rip (from what I can tell after poking around the GUI for a few mins). VLC can rip but it's really not meant for it and the options aren't great. All there alternatives are either meant for transcoding or are limited in some other way. OP mentioned a Sandy Bridge CPU, which I think was the first or 2nd generation (I'd have to look it up) to have QuickSync on there- so it's not great, but it is there.īased on the discussion here, it seems that there's no "drop in" replacement for MakeMKV. I think that the hardware manufacturer covered the cost of licensing in that case, so creation of whatever utilizing that is covered under that license- so while not free or open source, is legal I believe. a hardware decode/encode (Purevideo/nvEnc on nVidia, QuickSync on Intel, AMDs whatever that no one uses.) you don't have to pay anything extra to utilize that hardware. Pulling this back to the OP goals a bit, there is the SIP block i.e. ![]() They made a chicken or egg problem that really didn't need to exist (and shouldn't have) and I think it did cause them problems early on. It was always a bit odd- well, let's be real, greedy and stupid, to me, that they were charging to make it possible to consume the content. But that was a super long time ago so I don't remember exactly. Maybe! I have a vague memory that the mpeg-la pulled their heads out a little bit, way way back and introduced a little sanity on the decoder side of things, when they saw h.264 adoption was not going well because of the decode cost. So we might not be far from patent-free decoding. Mpeg-2 went that way, the articles a few years ago weren't written about "the important bits going free", it was the last patent covering the standard expired. I'm going by this, btw, which is based on what mpeg-la reports as the patents involved in h.264- if you sort it by expiration date, that's where I came up with that date:Īs for "the important bits"- I'm not sure how you'd quantify that into the h.264 codec.if you could only implement the "bits that are free" you wouldn't be in standards compliance for h.264, so I imagine that it's got to be all or nothing. Patents, like lots of things in our laws are not quite air tight and as straight forward as numbers make it seem like they should be. Also, lawyers (of which, I am not) are involved, so.one of the things I read said one of the patents in the pool got an extension of almost 6 years. My understanding is that the patent pool that covers h.264 grew a little over time, as the standard evolved. Are there any libre tools that offer the same functionality (and hopefully ease of use) as propietary MakeMKV? ![]() ![]() I don't mind having to work a bit for my ideology, but I'm not really sure where to start. I know there are tools to work with aacs, vlc is one of them and there was an article in FOSS Force about some other one that the author didn't name out of dmca concerns. Perhaps I'm imagining things but I believe the consensus is that whatever it does is more effective than the decryption provided by libaacs and libbdplus. When using VLC, Handbrake, or K3b, some of them either force remuxing or transcoding (Handbrake, K3b), or they only rip a single title (VLC).įurther, I'm not quite sure what MakeMKV does to circumvent DRM (aside from it's libredrive mode which provides an alternative operations pathway to the drive) but I don't believe it ever fetches decryption keys. With MakeMKV, you put in a disc and it spits out raw MKVs of all the major disc titles. I know there are alternatives, even ones that allow blu-ray ripping (vlc) but it's just not as turn-key or straightforward as MakeMKV. Unfortunately, it's not free (as in freedom) and I'm really trying to keep my setup as free as possible. I've been building a small home theater system and it's served as a wonderful tool that's allowed me to move content from my small disc collection to Jellyfin. MakeMKV is a program that rips DVDs and Blu-rays to a computer.
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