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If you also have VLC installed Handbrake will read DVDs and convert them directly.

Typically you need to first rip the Blu-ray into some format that Handbrake will understand and then you can convertcompress from there.

What many users dont realize, though, is that MakeMKV can be invoked on-the-fly to allow Handbrake to rip and convertcompress Blu-ray disks directly.

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The first two are completely free, the last is a paid app but Mike Chen, MakeMKVs author, has said that all of its features will remain free while in beta.

You can get an updated key at any time during this extended beta directly from MakeMKV (or, you know, you can buy it and support its development ).

This is the magic that will let Handbrake see your Blu-ray disks directly.

The instructions (from this MakeMKV thread, also penned by Mike Chen) are to go to the Terminal and type the following (each of the 4 commands on their own separate line, followed by return).

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Here at TMO Towers in the US it has yet to be tested to see whether or not one actually has the right to back up a movie that one purchased ).

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No need to use MakeMKV first (its still using MakeMKV so it must be installed but Im not using two apps or wasting space with a giant MKV rip that I transcode down to something with Handbrake).

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I went through my usual process from the article here: No matter what I do however Handbrake refuses to read the bluray discs.

MakeMKV will read the bluray so I can go through a two step process of rip first with make MKV and then convert with Handbrake, but itd be nice to do it all in one like I used to be able to on my old Macs.

When I put the extracted MKV file into Handbrake for the first time I did get this popup, but was able to allow it through system preferences.

I am not advocating piracy I suspect the issue is because of the advanced copy protection that is used in Blurays.

You may already be familiar, but Blurays use a copy protection scheme that is constantly updated.

This is also why you have to update your firmware on a legit Blu-ray player in order to play new discs.

Newer discs have newer encryption keys, so every time a new movie comes out, somebody has to first hack it and then update the decryption library for everyone else to use.

So you wont be able to directly copy brand-new Blurays until some time goes by and this process has a chance to take place.

This is different from DVDs - all DVDs (basically) use the same copy protection scheme, so once it got hacked (years ago) and got out in the wild, everybody could rip DVDs.

Here in Canada, AFAIK backups of your own films (which is what Im trying to do, in order to watch on my iPad) is legal.

The thing thats frustrating is that these steps worked fine on so many other machines Ive tried on (though all Mojave or earlier) and its just on this new Catalina machine its giving me issues.

All of the BRD guides I am aware of (including Jason Snells) use a separate program like MakeMKV or AnyDVD to perform the actual rip of the BRD and then use Handbrake or some other application to convert the BRD rip into a smaller video file.

So I had to install an older version and that did seem to fix the issue.

I may have had to manually install libdvdcss myself (I tried so many things along the way Im not entirely sure what did the trick).

All I know was once I installed the older handbrake everything worked properly.

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