How to Rip DVD to MKV on Mac OS X

DVD to MKV Ripper for Mac is an easy-to-use DVD Ripping application for Mac users to rip and convert DVD to MKV video, it also can rip DVD to all the other video and audio formats including MPEG, MPG, MP4, WMV, MOV, FLV, M4V, MP3, MKA, AIFF, WMA, M4A, AC3, AAC, WAV, OGG, etc on Mac OS X (Snow Leopard, Lion included). It helps you import DVD to iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, iMovie, iTunes, and many other players.

Here is a step-by-step guide to rip DVD to MKV on Mac OS X.

Step 1: Free download and install DVD to MKV Ripper for Mac

Download DVD Ripper for Mac (Intel version) Download DVD Ripper for Mac (PowerPC version)

To install it, simply mount the .dmg archive by double-clicking it, and copy the application to your applications folder (or wherever you want).

Step 2: Load DVD to convert to MKV

Insert DVD into your DVD-ROM. Launch DVD Ripper for Mac, there are three ways of loading DVD. You are allowed to add multiple DVD folders.

a. The program will automatically detect DVD files and start loading.
b. Click "File"->"Load DVD" or "Load DVD Files" from main menu to browse your computer hard drive and select the DVD you want to Load.
c. Just easily drag and drop DVD files into program for converting.

Step 3: Select MKV as output format

Click image button on the right of each video item, set output file name and choose MKV as the output format from Format list. There are a variety of video and audio format for output.

Step 4: Change MKV Video and audio Settings

You can change the Resolution, Encoder, Bit rate and Frame rate of the MKV video and Sample Rate, Channels, Encoder and Bit Rate of the MKV Audio. The size of the MKV file depends a lot on these settings.

Step 5: Select output directory

Click "DVD Ripper"->"Preference"->"Output" from main menu, you can choose directory for locating converted files and screen captures.

Step 6: Rip DVD to MKV on Mac.

After all the settings, click "Convert"->"Start Conversion".

This DVD Ripper also provides us powerful video editing functions, like cropping, trimming and affect setting. With this, you can customize the files you rip from DVD.

What's MKV?

The MKV format (Matroska Video) is an entirely free video format. More precisely, it is a container making it possible to contain video (DivX, Xvid, RV9, etc), sound (MP3, MP2, AC3, Ogg, AAC, DTS, PCM), as well as subtitles (SRT, ASS, SSA, USF, etc) in the same file, other MKA for audio-only files and MKS for subtitles only. High Definition movies in 720 or 1080 pixel width format are often encoded and packaged as a Matroska format video with a MKV file extension. MKV files usually have a menu system slightly similar to a DVD menu, tools and libraries that allow developers to add MKV support to their applications, an audio/video cross-platform in a multimedia container format and streaming facilities over the internet. MKV has been licensed as an open source container format and is hence free for public distribution.