Is it possible to rip a 4K UHD Bluray into SDR instead of HDR?

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Mr Rotch
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Is it possible to rip a 4K UHD Bluray into SDR instead of HDR?

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I'm new to all this, so apologize in advance.

Today I installed Make MKV and ripped my copy of Star Wars The Force Awakens, only to find out that it ripped in HDR. I have an HDR monitor capable of displaying it, but I was wondering if it would be possible to rip it into SDR instead of HDR?
dcoke22
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Re: Is it possible to rip a 4K UHD Bluray into SDR instead of HDR?

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Mr Rotch wrote:
Mon Mar 31, 2025 3:47 am
I'm new to all this, so apologize in advance.

Today I installed Make MKV and ripped my copy of Star Wars The Force Awakens, only to find out that it ripped in HDR. I have an HDR monitor capable of displaying it, but I was wondering if it would be possible to rip it into SDR instead of HDR?
MakeMKV just copies what's the on the disc into a .mkv file and doesn't change it.

You can use something like Handbrake to create a version of the file that has been tone mapped from the 4K UHD colorspace (bt.2020) to the normal blu-ray colorspace (bt.709), aka from HDR to SDR.

Here's a post & a thread that talks more about the various options.
https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=168514#p168514
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