Function comparison about Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, AnyDVD HD, and MakeMKV

[jimmy8765]

In purpose of help you guys to have further understanding of the Blu-ray decryption programs, I have collected and summarized three of them which are frequently in use in this post, namely Pavtube Blu-Ray Ripper, AnyDVD HD, and MakeMKV. The main features of the three applications are listed in the following paragraphs, hope these contents are informative to all of you.

1. Pavtube Blu-ray Ripper

Key Features:

- Read almost all protected DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

- Decrypt and convert Blu-ray disc in one step.

- Rip and convert DVD and Blu-ray files to many other popular audio and video formats like AVI, ASF, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, SWF, RM, 3GP, AAC, AC3, MP3, OGG, WAV, WMA, M4A, etc., HD video formats are also included.

- Support directly copying DVDs (*.vob) and Blu-rays (*.m2ts) to the hard drive of your PC without quality loss and recoding.

- Support adjusting video and audio parameters like bit rate, frame rate, aspect ratio, etc. to downsize DVDs and Blu-Ray files.

- Allow users using system existing codec to rip DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

- Support VFW codec and 5.1 channel output.

- Simple editing functions.

- With user friendly preview window.

- Guarantee audio and video in sync.

- No additional software is required for conversion or decryption.

2. AnyDVD HD

AnyDVD HD comes with same functionality as AnyDVD, but with additional features for full Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD support, including decryption of Blu-ray (BD+ and AACS) and HD DVD (AACS) movies.

Key features:

- Same features as regular AnyDVD.

- Be able to remove encryption (AACS), BD+ copy protection, and region codes from Blu-ray Discs.

- Removes encryption (AACS) from HD DVDs.

- Output ISO or .TS, .M2TS files

- Watch movies over digital display connection, without HDCP-compliant graphics card and without HDCP-compliant display.

Limitations:

- Without format conversion function, users need to rely on the third party software to transfer format, spend too much.

- No downsizing function, the decrypted files occupy too much storage space.

- No custom settings to adjust bit rate, frame rate, etc.

- Without preview window.

3. MakeMKV (freeware)

Key features:

- Ignore region restrictions and remove copy protections to read DVDs and Blu-ray discs.

- Preserve all video, audio tracks and chapters information.

- No additional software is required for conversion or decryption.

- Fast conversion speed.

- Convert DVDs and Blu-rays to the format of MKV.

Limitations:

- Read Blu-ray discs selectively only, some are, and some are not.

- Output MKV files only.

- Sometimes there are audio and video out of sync issues.

- Without preview window.

- Unable to resize.

Well, end up now, hope it helps, and any criticism is appreciated.

[john191103]

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