MakeMKV ($50, 30-day free trial) has a simple little name, and there’s no big trick to transcoding a video from one container format to another. If that were all this utility did, it would be ...

Going all-in on streaming makes it hard to ever really own your favorite media. If you have a sizable physical media ...

The most common question I've been asked about my DS9 upscaling work is whether there's a way to make it work with files created via MakeMKV. MakeMKV is (and has been) a popular application for ...

For any cinephile in the digital age, MakeMKV is a dream tool. This format converter helps you convert your own videos into a free format that is not patented and can be played on any platform. Most ...

Intel recently abandoned 4K Blu-ray playback for its newer CPUs, and the news sadly came as little surprise. Security issues have long plagued the company’s SGX technology, and relatively few people ...

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The entertainment industry has spent an untold amount of money creating and implementing copyright protection for its content. Because copy protection prevents casual copying to other media, such as a ...

I wasn't really paying attention while ripping my BDs and UHD BDs with MakeMKV, and it appears to have made a bunch of files based on... I dunno? Chapters? Special features? There is usually one large ...

[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs and Blu-rays discs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD or ...