Lossless Backup DVD to MKV format with all audio tracks, subtitles and chapter markers keeping

If you are wondering how to rip DVD to MKV format with all audio tracks, subtitles and chapter markers keeping on Mac, this article shows you exactly how to make it work.

As a DVD lover, you may collected many DVD discs. With hundreds of DVDs in hand, you may want to make a lossless copy of those DVD and then you can easily search and play it with a remote control.

Generally, there are multiple audio tracks in the DVD movies, and you can choose the audio track to play with the DVD player as you want. If you want to keep the multiple subtitles and audio tracks when ripping a DVD movie, MKV is actually a pretty good output format choice as the MKV format can store multiple video/audio tracks with all meta-information and preserve chapters.

To help him to solve the problem, I tested some softwares and did comparison. Here we recommended this Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac which does a great job in quick decrypting the protected discs within a few clicks. Best of all, it can handle the latest Blu-ray/DVD and is capable of backup BD/DVD to lossless MKV preserving all the multiple audio and subtitle tracks as well as chapter markers. In this way, I can freely watch Anime on my VLC Player.

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Convert and Rip DVD movies to lossless mkv format for watching on Mac

Step 1. Load DVD movie.

Get ready to insert your DVD disc, click this "Load Disc" button to browser to disc drive and import the disc. Or you could load DVD folder and DVD ISO from computer hard drive to this best DVD to MKV Converter for Mac.



Step 2. Choose suitable output format.

Pavtubr ByteCopy for Mac offers an special category for users who would like to keep multiple audio tracks including Dolby Digital 5.1 and subtitles in saved Lossless MKV file.

To pass-through original TrueHD/Dolby Digital/DTS/PCM audio, just select Multi-track Video > Lossless/encoded Multi-track MKV(*.MKV) for output. In this way the original audio tracks are streamed without transcoding from source DVD Disc to saved MKV file.



Step 3. Adjust profile presets (Optional).

You are allowed to customize profile presets as you like, you could remove unwanted audio track in Audio tab under Settings menu, and uncheck subtitles you do not need in Subtitles tab.



Step 4. Start ripping DVD to multi-track mkv on Mac.

Save all your settings, and back to ByteCopy for Mac main interface, hit the "Convert" button to start converting. When the lossless backup completes, you would get a single large MKV file saved in output file destination. And you could play copied DVD MKV movie on Mac with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio preserved.

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How to Convert Video_TS to MKV Videos on Windows 8.1/8

In this article, you will learn how to convert DVD VIDEO_TS folder to MKV for smoothly playback with your media player on Windows 8.1/8.

Video_TS folder is the folder on DVDs that contains the DVD's video data and playback information. It contains three kinds of formats, IFO, BUP and VOB. IFO is information file, which is the main factor to operate video playback. With IFO files you can forward or backward the video at will. If IFO files are damaged or can't be read, don't worry. BUP is the backup of IFO and they have the totally same function. But if you happen to lose them all, you will have big trouble in controlling video play, so be careful. VOB means video objects, which is the container of video files. No need to say how important it is.

However, Video_TS folders are not that widely supported. If you want to play play Video_TS folders on much more media players, you may need to convert DVD VIDEO_TS folder to playable MKV file in advance.

To achieve this goal, first of all, download and install Pavtube DVDAid, which is the best tool to accomplish your goal by converting DVD VIDEO_TS to MKV file, Windows 8.1/8 supported.

Overall, the program can easily convert DVD disc, DVD VIDEO_TS folder and DVD IFO/ISO file to any video format for different devices including iPad Air, iPhone 5S, iPhone 5C, Kindle Fire HDX, Apple TV 3, Samsung Galaxy Tab 3, Galaxy Note 3, Google Nexus 7/10, WD TV, WD TV Live, and more.

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Convert DVD VIDEO_TS folder to MKV file on Windows 8.1/8 easily and fastly

Step 1. Run the best VIDEO_TS Converter, click "Load from folder" to select and load the Video_TS files you want to convert. All the loaded files will be displayed on the left source pane and you can choose the titles to rip.



Step 2. Clicking the "Format" menu, here you are suggested to choose “MKV(Matroska) Video (*.mkv)” as output format from “Common Video” category under the drop-down list of “Format”. If you want to get better HD video quality, just select “MKV HD Video (*.mkv)” from “HD Video” category.



Step 3. If you like, modify profile settings such as video size, bitrate, frame rate, etc to get optimized video and audio playback.



Step 4. Return back to DVDAid main interface, and hit the "Convert" button to start encoding DVD VIDEO_TS to MKV format Windows 8.1/8.

Once it finishes, open output folder, locate the created mkv file and you can transfer DVD VIDEO_TS folder to your media player for watching and sharing anywhere you like.

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