How to Rip or Backup Blu-ray to H.265 HEVC MP4 on Mac OS X

Diana Joan

May 19, 2015 09:20 am / Posted by Diana Joan

Main reasons to encode Blu-ray to H.265 on Mac

One reason is that Blu-ray disc can easily get scratched, therefore, it is very essential for us to rip and backup Blu-ray disc to video format files for storage. To preserve the original high definition quality and save more space on your storage device, it is idea for you to encode Blu-ray to H.265, a perfect codec to compress high definition files. It can substantially reduce the backup video size and display the same video quality.

encode Blu-ray to H.265 MP4

Another reason is that you can't play Blu-ray movies on Mac directly since Mac does not have native support for it. You will need to buy some expensive Blu-ray players to watch your high definition movies. Why not rip Blu-ray to H.265, so that you can directly play them on some Mac media players such as VLC players, Divx Players, PotPlayer and Cyberlink PowerDVD 14 Utra which has just added decoding capabilities for H.265/HEVC codec. In addition, you can also convert Blu-ray to H.265 MP4 Mac for online streaming with Wowza Streaming Engine.

To output H.265 MP4 from Blu-ray on Mac, what you need is a powerful Blu-ray to H.265 encoding program. Pavtube studio has just upgraded its Mac Blu-ray/DVD software with H.265 encoding support, here, you can download Pavtube BDMagic for Mac, which can efficiently rip Blu-ray to H.265 MP4 Mac format to store with high quality in small file size, transfer and play on VLC, Divx player, PotPlayer and Cyberlink PowerDVD 14 Utra or stream on line with Wowza Streaming Engine.

How to convert Blu-ray to H.265 HEVC MP4 on Mac OS X Yosemite?

Step 1: Load Blu-ray from optical drive.

Click the "Folder" icon on the top menu bar to load your Blu-ray disc to the program

Load Blu-ray disc to the software

Step 2: Select H.265 MP4 as output file format.

From the "Format" bar extended lists, define the output format from "Common Video > H.265 Video (*.mp4)" as the output file format.

output H.265 MP4 format

Step 3: Optimize output profile parameters.

Adjust the output video and audio codec, size, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, channels according to your own needs and preference.

Customize profile parameters

Step 4: Rip Blu-ray to H.265 MP4 Mac.

Start Mac Blu-ray to H.265 HEVC MP4 conversion process by hitting the right-bottom conversion button.

When the conversion is done, feel free to backup, play and stream on Blu-ray movies.


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