www.makemkv.com

I want to rip my BD and UHD movies to a hard drive and watch using a computer. So I got an LG BP50NB40 drive (already flashed) and a 8TB external hard drive. After watching a couple of videos for NAS devices, most recommend the MakeMKV to rip the discs.

So I did that and rip my first movie "Uncharted" to the hard drive, the question is, how do I play it?

I read that VLC is a very good player, but it didn't work. When I used the MakeMKV program, I just clicked on "backup" and it copied straight to the External Hard Drive creating a folder "Uncharted" (it took around 43 minutes). Inside that folder, I got 3 other folders called AACS, BDMV and Certificate. Inside the BDMV there a bunch of other folders and one of them is STREAM which I believe where the video files are located since one of those files are 55.5 GB, all those video files are M2TS.

Can anyone clarify what I'm doing wrong? Because I also read that VLC plays M2TS, but I can't see any images.

Backup is a rather specialized copy... You want to click on the VERY LARGE button that looks like a disk, so that you can extract the videos as MKV files... which VLC and other programs and play very nicely.

That's why the button is so big - it's the primary purpose of MakeMKV.

Woodstock wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 10, 2026 12:17 am

Backup is a rather specialized copy... You want to click on the VERY LARGE button that looks like a disk, so that you can extract the videos as MKV files... which VLC and other programs and play very nicely.

That's why the button is so big - it's the primary purpose of MakeMKV.

Thank you for the reply. That big button did the trick

I do have another question though, do you know why the default makes two copies?

I know that we can uncheck one of those copies before we start the process, but I'm wondering if they have any differences between them. I popped in another disc to test "Resident Evil - Welcome to Raccoon City" and it's the same, it shows two exact files of 50 something gigs that has the same video, audio and subtitles options.

Disks with two "main feature" tracks

Someone asked a similar question recently. That's a link to my reply.

dcoke22 wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 10, 2026 2:04 am

Disks with two "main feature" tracks

Someone asked a similar question recently. That's a link to my reply.

Yeah, I found the answer on the FAQ linked to @Woodstock signature (the FAQ in the main page is broken for me)

"- If you see a title with chapters and another title without chapters, you are seeing the mpls playlist with chapters, which is the one you want, as well as the original m2ts stream file, which the playlist is created from."