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How to Convert DVD to MKV?

Question on How to Rip DVD to MKV?

I have some DVDs which contain astonishing, romantic scenes, but when i convert these DVDs to video and watch it on laptop or PC the quality get bad. Somewhere I read that if I convert DVD to MKV files, it will carry all the subtitles and the output quality seems better too. My question is how do I rip dvds to MKV files with high output quality?

Answer of Ripping DVDs to MKV

As far as we know, A ordinary DVD disk movie is often 7-8 GB in size, if we convert them to ordinary video formats the size would be hundreds of MB, so We have to face this problem that the code compress process would destroy most of unimportant data and the video quality get bad. After trying a lot of DVD Ripping tools to rip DVD to mkv, if you found the output quality was somehow degraded, here, try SnowFox DVD to MKV Converter which could decrease the damage by converting DVD to MKV.

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Easy Steps on How to Rip DVD to MKV

To easily play DVD movie on most mobiles, you need to download a professional DVD Ripper, such as SnowFox DVD & Video Converter which could convert any video to MKV and rip dvd to MKV. Here let me take SnowFox DVD Riper as an example.

Run DVD to MKV converter and Import DVD

Install and Launch DVD to MKV Ripper. Then click the "Add DVD" to add the source dvd you want to import to the program. In addition, this Video Converter not only can convert common dvd movie to MKV, but also could convert protected dvds to MKV.

Load DVD to MKV Converter

Important: If your DVD is protected by many titles, just tick " Run Enhanced DVD Analysis" to search vaild titles. As far as i know, if you try other DVD Rippers, you have to play this kind of DVDs and record the main movie's title, then choose that title to rip. Such as Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball imported to DVD Ripper above which has 25 titles. But SnowFox DVD Ripper could choose the main title automatically, it will save much time for you. And this is the Essential Difference between SnowFox DVD Ripper and other dvd ripper software.

Main title search: Only main titles will be added to the conversion list (usually one or two), and other titles will be ignored.

Full title search: All useful titles will be searched and added to the conversion list. These titles includes main titles, advertisements, etc. Of course, it will take more time to find all right titles.

Here i choose 'Full titles search', SnowFox DVD Ripper will choose the useful title for you automatically.

Protected DVD to MKV Converter - Parse DVD

Customize output Settings

The key point to convert DVD to MKV is choose the suitable output format as your need. Here you could select "MKV - Matroska Video Format (*.mkv)" as the output format from the drop-down list. Before you start coversion, click "Browse..." button to choose the output path to save the converted files. This DVD to MKV Converter could convert DVD to AVI, MPEG, WMV, MP4, MOV, XviD, 3GP, FLV and more. And it is available to reset the parameters as your own need.

DVD to MKV Ripper - Choose MKV as the Output Format

Start the Conversion

Once everything has been selected, click "Start" button to begin the conversion, then done! During the converison you could just have a coffee or take a nap, and the conversion may have been finished when you come back.

That's it, with 3 steps you can Convert DVD to MKV video format. You could enjoy the converted MKV file on your PC and Media players. The conversion speed and output quality is great and it will meet most people requirement. Generally speaking, it is worth to use SnowFox DVD Ripper to convert your DVD to MKV.

Tips:

1. Trim the DVD
Before click convert button to convert DVD to MKV, it's available to convert DVD by title, trim DVD to reserve the part you need. Just choose the chapter which you need to trim, to set "start time" or "end time", type the portion which you want to save.

2. Benefits of this DVD to MKV Converter

This DVD to MKV converter is also compatible with iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Andriod Phone, PMP, BlackBerry, Zune, Snoy PSP, Sony PS3, etc. You can choose the suitable format as your own needs.

3. Convert DVD to Other Video Format

What's more, you can also convert your DVD movie to avi, 3gp, flv, m4v, mkv, mpeg-1, mpeg-2, wmv, mov, Xivd, Divx, flv, mkv, even HD AVI Video (*.avi), HD WMV Video (*.wmv), HD MPEG-4 Video (*.mp4), HD MPEG-2 Video (*.mpg), HD H.264/AVC Video (*.mp4), etc.

Related Knowledge

What is MKV?

Matroska aims to become THE standard of multimedia container formats. It was derived from a project called MCF, but differentiates from it significantly because it is based on EBML (Extensible Binary Meta Language), a binary derivative of XML. EBML enables the Matroska Development Team to gain significant advantages in terms of future format extensibility, without breaking file support in old parsers

How to play MKV on Windows media player?

Many people who download a HD video file with the extension MKV will often try to play it back with video player software they have installed on their systems. Most of the time this doesn't work. As it is based on DirectShow Windows Media Player will play back MKV HD video files perfectly if you have the proper codecs and filters installed. A great help here is the Matroska Pack. This pack is an ideal solution for new users as it installs pretty much all you will need to play MKV HD video files.

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