Top 3 Ways for Lossless Blu-ray Backup on Mac/Windows

There are many instances wherein you may need to copy the entire content of a Blu-ray disc into your hard drive for safe keeping. Look no further! This guide will present you three simple and reliable methods to losslessly backup Blu-ray movies to hard drive in both Mac and Windows (Windows 8 included). Just check it out!

Generally speaking, copying Blu-ray movies is not an easy task since they are usually protected by new copy protection, which prevents them from being copied or ripped. To backup a copyright protected Blu-ray quickly and efficiently, what you need is a more professional Blu-ray ripping tool. Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper for Mac is the one ideal Blu-ray ripping software for you.

Overall, this Blu-ray backup software prefers to bypass the encryption immediately after it appears, stripping the protection before playback software recognizes the disc, and it can always catch up with the latest Blu-ray copy protection variant. With the tool, you can easily copy BD whole content or just backup main movie from Blu-ray with its provided copying features. Plus, it also enables users to fast rip video/audio from Blu-rays and convert them to MP4, MOV, AVI, WMV, FLV, MKV, VOB, MP3, OGG, WMA, etc. for playing and sharing anywhere you like. At the meanwhile, Brorsoft Blu-ray Ripper is an ideal Blu-ray copying and ripping tool for Windows users.

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Method One: Losslessly Backup Blu-ray with original structure

Step 1. Launch the Blu-ray copying software. Click the BD disc button to load your Blu-ray movies. The Blu-ray titles and chapters will be listed on the program within a few seconds.

Step 2. Click "Browse" button to select a destination folder for the output files.

Step 3. Click "Copy the entire disc" button in the main interface to starts copying the Bluray disc on Mac OS X(Mavericks) maintaining the original structure menu.

As soon as the copying task finished, you can click "Open" button to locate the Blu-ray directory. The decrypted Blu-ray folder contains all information and contents in the original disc. Among them, the BDMV folder is the most important one with audio and video files in it. Open BDMV -> STREAM folder and you will find all the .m2ts movie clips. You can play these M2TS videos on Mac or have a further conversion and transfer to other devices for playback.

Method Two: Losslessly Copy Blu-ray Main Movie and leave out extras

Step 1. Launch the Blu-ray backup software Mac. Click the BD disc button to load your Blu-ray content.

Step 2. Click "Format" bar, choose "Copy" > "Directly Copy" from the Format menu and then specify a folder to save the M2TS files from Blu-ray disc.

Step 3. Hit "Convert" button to start copying M2TS streams from your Blu-ray Disc to hard drive. When the copying work is done, you are able to click "Open" button to get the output .m2ts files without any other extra structures or contents.

Method Three: Losslessly Backup Blu-ray to MKV/MP4/AVI/MOV/WMV...

To copy a Blu-ray as video/audio files like MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV, M4V, FLV, MKV, MP3, WMA, etc. to your computer's hard drive, Brorsoft Blu-ray ripping program can also help you achieve it.

Step 1. Add Blu-ray movies > Insert the Blu-ray disc to the Blu-ray Disc drive and click the "Load Disc" button to have movies uploaded to the program.

Step 2. Select the output format > In the "Format" menu, choose either a video or an audio format as the output format. This Mac Blu-ray converter also has 150+ presets for almost all popular multimedia devices. You are allowed to choose one device as the output format as well.

Step 3. Start the conversion > Click the "Convert" button to rip Blu-ray to any video or audio format. That's it ! You've made it!

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