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Hey all!
Long time watching and now I have taken the plunge, however the outcome was not as good as I hoped. In short, I ripped Iron Man from Blu-Ray, and the playback quality looks as though it came from a DVD.

So, I will walk you through the steps I did and hopefully we can work out where I went wrong.
First the hardware:
Hitachi-LG BU40N Internal UHD Blu-Ray
External CD DVD Drive, USB 3.0 Portable Type A Type C USB3.0 USB2.0 5Gbps Laptop Optical Drive Enclosure for 12.7mm 9.5mm SATA DVD RW Drive Laptop Desktop PC Windows

I then plugged it into my computer and downloaded MKV. I used the beta key and scanned the disk. It showed all the files on it, so I took the largest at around 27gb. I then ripped it and tested the file.

So, the file plays on both windows media player and plex, so that’s all good. However, as I said earlier it’s like watching a DVD copy. To compare I played it on plex with my PS5 and then watch it on the same PS5 directly form the Blu-Ray disk and you can see the difference! The Blu-Ray is brighter and sharper. Again the best way to explain is to compare watching a Blu-Ray to a DVD.
I have messed up somewhere but I’m not sure where, it took me while to rip DVD’s correctly, so I know it’s a process.
Any help would be great!
Many Thanks

p.s. My apologies for any spelling errors dyslexia is fun!
p.p.s Again my apologies for any terms I get wrong I am self-taught, so this is the first time I’m reaching out to the community for support!

I'd suggest getting MediaInfo, a free utility to show you details about .mkv files. I find it to be a valuable tool.

Since MakeMKV is just copying the bits on the optical disc into a new container, the .mkv file, I'm sure MediaInfo will tell you that the resolution of the video in the .mkv file MakeMKV produced is 1920x1080.

Plex can transcode source material to a lower resolution if it believes the client can't handle the source material in its native form. In an ideal world you'd be able to view content from your Plex server via Direct Play with any transcoding. You can check if your server is transcoding by playing the content (in your case, in the Plex app on your PS5) and then looking at your server dashboard at the Now Playing section. It will show if the video or audio is being transcoded or not.