Despite the name you can output to mkv with it and it also does 3D Blu-ray's too however you must feed it the raw BD folder structure to get 3D prompts, feeding MKV only works for 2D video. The downside to Handbrake is you can run into media types occasionally it cant handle, it has poor subtitle management and it's a tad slower than other encoders at similar settings at least in my experience.īDtoAVCHD is meant for converting Blu-ray's only, it is easy to install and quick to queue up jobs, fast and stable, currently my favourite pick for BD's.

It supports most media types and generally gives decent video output, it also handles DVD's the best and does cropping a lot easier than most other encoders though cropping black borders isn't necessary with x264. Handbrake is one of the most straightforward to get going, plus relatively easy to use but only does limited releases, like 1-2 in a year if that.

Most encoders out there use x264 pretty much the best image quality H.264 encoder out there. MakeMKV doesn't convert the video, it's the same as on the disc all it does is pull the video off the disc and dump it in an mkv container.

Usee xmedia recode to compress tv shpws