MKV Compression Question

[silentbob417]

I have been backing up my Blu-ray collection to my computer and have been using MakeMKV to rip the movies but I have huge files ranging from 17GB - 40GB and I would like to compress them so that I wouldn't realize any difference except for the size.

I've seen blu-ray rips that were less than 9GB and they look fine and sound fine. I tried using handbrake to compress my MKV files however the audio was messed up seeming as though every half second of audio was missing.

I was wondering what other people have used for compressing MKV files so that they still retain as much quality as possible yet are smaller in size also to remain in MKV format.

[Baldrick]

Ripbot264.

[johns0]

Uncropmkv.

[redwudz]

I've used RipBot for some time now for BD>MKV conversions. I do two pass conversions with a target size of 7900MB to fit on DL media for backup for my media server HDDs. There is some quality loss, but not that much. Probably if you went to a larger size, maybe around 15GB, that would minimize the losses. Two pass is slow to encode, though. I batch them overnight.