Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is a disc ripping and conversion program for Windows and macOS. It reads Blu-ray and DVD discs, Blu-ray/DVD folders and ISO image files, and removes their copy protection and region locks. It saves the movie as a video or audio file that plays on computers, phones, tablets, TVs and game consoles. The ripper is paid, and its free trial converts only the first five minutes of each title.
Discs, folders and ISO images
Add sources with the Add Blu-ray/DVD button or drag them onto the conversion panel. Besides a physical disc in the drive, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper accepts a disc folder copied to the hard drive or an ISO image. This lets you convert a backup made earlier without the original disc. Commercial and homemade discs are both handled.
Commercial Blu-rays carry AACS and BD+ encryption with regularly updated MKB keys, and DVDs use CSS. The program decrypts these while reading the disc and ignores region codes, covering Blu-ray regions A, B and C and DVD regions 0 to 6. On a Mac, Blu-ray discs need an external Blu-ray drive.
Choosing which titles to load
A Blu-ray usually contains many titles: the feature film plus trailers, menus and extras. After you select a disc, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper offers three loading modes:
- Full Movie imports every title on the disc.
- Main Movie imports only the longest title, which is normally the film itself. You can choose another title instead.
- Custom Mode lists the titles so the user can tick the ones to import.
Loaded titles appear in a file list where each entry has its own subtitle and audio track selection. You can convert several titles in one batch or merge them into a single output file. The program converts discs with multiple camera angles to a single-angle video.
Output formats and device profiles
You choose the output from a profile panel with two groups. The Format group lists video and audio containers such as MP4, MKV, AVI, MOV, WMV and HEVC video, and MP3, AAC or FLAC audio, with HD and 4K variants. The Device group lists ready profiles for specific iPhone, iPad and Android models, smart TVs, Xbox and PlayStation consoles. A search box filters the profile list.
Selecting Edit instead of Change opens the parameters behind a profile: video codec, bit rate, resolution, frame rate, aspect ratio, audio codec, sample rate and channels. You can save an adjusted profile to a Custom group and reuse it. You can output video at 720p, 1080p or 4K, including upscaling to 4K MP4 or MKV.
Lossless MKV and MP4
For a copy that keeps the disc quality, Leawo Blu-ray Ripper can write lossless MKV or MP4 files. These retain the original video stream, the HD audio and multiple audio and subtitle tracks in one file. An Audio Copy option passes 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound through without re-encoding it.
Built-in video editor
You can open each title in an editor before conversion and check the result in the internal player. The editor has several tabs:
- Trim keeps only the part between a start and end time, set with a slider or typed in.
- Crop removes black bars by dragging a frame or choosing a preset such as 16:9, 4:3, Letter or Pan.
- Effect adjusts brightness, contrast, saturation and audio volume.
- Watermark places text or an image over the video with set transparency, color, margins and size.
- Video and audio flips or rotates the picture, changes playback speed from 1/4x to 4x and removes audio noise.
You can apply watermark and effect settings to all loaded titles at once.
2D-to-3D conversion
The 3D tab turns a standard 2D Blu-ray or DVD into 3D video. You can also flatten 3D Blu-rays to 2D. Six output styles are available to match the viewer’s glasses or screen: Red/Cyan, Red/Green, Red/Blue and Blue/Yellow anaglyph, Interleaved, and Side by Side. An adjustable 3D depth setting controls how strong the effect appears.
Conversion and program settings
Pressing Convert opens a sidebar where you set the destination folder before the job starts. Leawo Blu-ray Ripper can use NVIDIA CUDA, AMD APP and Intel Quick Sync graphics acceleration to speed up encoding. The settings window controls the number of CPU cores used and the maximum number of simultaneous conversion tasks. It also lets you choose whether to prefer the native codec, and controls streaming-ready MP4 output and the DVD navigator. You can set the folder for external subtitle files, default text encoding, and the format and folder for screenshots taken in the player. The interface is available in several languages.
Trial and Prof. Media
The trial version converts the first five minutes of encrypted and unencrypted discs, and decryption works for 30 days. Registering a license removes both limits. Leawo Blu-ray Ripper is also included in the Prof. Media bundle together with Leawo DVD Ripper and Leawo Blu-ray Recorder Ripper.
