www.makemkv.com

Never heard of it. I looked and this doesn't apply to Macs (I'm running it on a Mac).

I use MakeMKV occasionally to rip blu-rays. I just got a new set of discs, and I'm only getting about 2x when ripping. How can I diagnose this? My drive is a Pioneer, rated at 6x read speed for blu-rays. It gets the maximum 24x on CDs, and it's only with blu-rays that I notice the slow speed.

Also, in some cases, choosing WAV results in a huge file, many GB, whereas it should be about 600 MB per hour. WAV is basically PCM (uncompressed audio). 2-channel Stereo @ 48 kHz with 16-bit samples is about 659 MiB per hour. But 5.1 @ 48 kHz is about 1.93 GiB (16-bit samples) or 2.90 GiB (24-bit ...

Smithcraft wrote:Well, you could use a mkv demuxing tool that would split the various tracks. The audio would be a mka file.

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What type of program would do that? And what do I then do with an mka file?

've used MakeMKV to rip a blu-ray disk to a bunch of MKV files. All the files play perfectly. I want to rip the audio, and tried using VLC's Streaming/Exporting Wizard. This works fine for short tracks - less than a few minutes long - but for anything longer (I've tried both 30-min and 2-hour tracks...