How to rip an .iso file with MakeMKV

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Jules
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How to rip an .iso file with MakeMKV

#1 Post by Jules » Tue Nov 15, 2022 12:26 pm

Hi, everyone!!

I want to make a backup with MakeMKV but I can’t load the .iso file. How can I do this?

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Re: How to rip an .iso file with MakeMKV

#2 Post by Coopervid » Tue Nov 15, 2022 4:56 pm

You can't. You have to rip to folder and then use Imgburn to pick BDMV and CERTIFICATE and write the ISO.

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Re: How to rip an .iso file with MakeMKV

#3 Post by ChromePlanet » Sat Dec 03, 2022 11:34 pm

You can rip any ISO file with MakeMKV simply by opening the file. I do this routinely after cloning a UHD or BD disc with DVDFab to ISO. If MakeMKV can't open the ISO file or returns an error, it may not have been created correctly. You can't just use DiskUtil to clone an encrypted movie disc to your drive.

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Re: How to rip an .iso file with MakeMKV

#4 Post by theotherguy » Sun Apr 21, 2024 8:44 pm

FWIW, I'm doing my BluRay discs now, and I just select the folder that contains the 1)BDMV, 2)Certificate, and 3)MakeMKV folders within it. It has usually worked pretty well to create an ISO from that.

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Re: How to rip an .iso file with MakeMKV

#5 Post by Radiocomms237 » Sun Apr 21, 2024 11:47 pm

This subject comes up almost every week lately.

Why we can't just have the option to 'ISO' Blu-ray & UltraHD discs directly from MakeMKV I'll never know. It can already create an image of DVDs, but not BR nor UHD. With LibreDrive, it should be entirely possible.

I just want to have a true image of my discs backed up for posterity. Not decrypted, not just the folders & files that MakeMKV *thinks* I need, but an ISO image of the disc as a whole.

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Re: How to rip an .iso file with MakeMKV

#6 Post by SamuriHL » Mon Apr 22, 2024 12:35 am

Enable LibreDrive by opening the disc to the title selection screen in MakeMKV.

Use DD to create an ISO from the disc

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sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/some/folder/iso_name_here.iso
Obviously you'll have to replace the dev device with the dev device of your UHD drive and the folder path and ISO name but it'll work.

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Re: How to rip an .iso file with MakeMKV

#7 Post by Radiocomms237 » Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:05 am

You gave me similar instructions for using ImgBurn over in this thread, but I could never make it work.

So I will give this new theory a try, as soon as you let me know what "DD" is???

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Re: How to rip an .iso file with MakeMKV

#8 Post by SamuriHL » Mon Apr 22, 2024 2:35 am

A command that's used in a bash shell but quite frankly if you couldn't get it to work with imgburn you're not likely to have more success with dd

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Re: How to rip an .iso file with MakeMKV

#9 Post by dcoke22 » Mon Apr 22, 2024 3:32 am

Radiocomms237 wrote:
Mon Apr 22, 2024 1:05 am
So I will give this new theory a try, as soon as you let me know what "DD" is???
dd (Unix) can be thought of as a low level copy command in Unix.

I think one of the complexities of trying to have MakeMKV create .iso files of blu-rays and UHDs is the UDF filesystem used on optical discs. Most blu-rays use UDF 2.5 (though some use 2.6). I know macOS doesn't have native OS support UDF 2.5. I'm pretty sure Windows doesn't either. And I'd guess most Linux distributions don't have it by default. Consequently, MakeMKV would probably have to add the capability to write UDF 2.5 .iso files to itself as opposed to being able to use the host OS's support for it. That would add a lot of complexity for a relatively small gain.

DVDs generally use UDF 1.02 which I think is relatively well supported across the various OSes.

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