Originally Posted by
elCheapoDeluxe
I never understood going through this much hassle to rip a 2 hour movie I'm going to watch once.
The makemkv part is easy. Note that one might do this to put said mkv file on a file server and be part of a media library available throughout the home.
Also, who is buying a Blu-Ray to watch it once?
I just jumped on eBay and found a Blu-Ray drive compatible with the bay in my ThinkPad. Swapped it out in three minutes, got a copy of WinDVD, and done.
This too, is easy and is a good option. It's not for everyone because:
1. A lot of folks don't like traveling with their Blu-Rays.
2. A lot of folks will be ripping content to a file server anyway. In many cases, they will transcode to save fileserver disk space. Thus, the incremental bother to take movies on-the-go is to copy a file from the fileserer to the MacBook.