Open source 4K UHD / Blu-ray / DVD backup. One binary, no dependencies. Plug in your drive, rip to MKV.

Stream labels extracted automatically — audio purpose, codec detail, forced subtitles, language variants — metadata other tools miss. Bundled drive profiles. 17+ MB/s sustained.

macOS — Homebrew:

brew install freemkv/tap/freemkv             # command line
brew install --cask freemkv/tap/freemkv-app  # desktop app

Linux:

curl -sLo freemkv https://github.com/freemkv/freemkv/releases/latest/download/freemkv-x86_64-linux
chmod +x freemkv && sudo mv freemkv /usr/local/bin/

Use freemkv-aarch64-linux on arm64.

macOS — direct download:

curl -sLo freemkv https://github.com/freemkv/freemkv/releases/latest/download/freemkv-aarch64-macos
chmod +x freemkv && sudo mv freemkv /usr/local/bin/

Use freemkv-x86_64-macos on Intel. Fetching with curl avoids the macOS security prompt a browser download gets; Homebrew does too.

Windows: Download freemkv-x86_64-windows.zip, extract, run from Command Prompt.

All downloads

DVD: No setup needed. CSS decryption works out of the box.

Blu-ray / 4K UHD: You need a KEYDB.cfg — a community-maintained AACS key database. freemkv cannot ship keys due to legal restrictions (same as every other BD ripping tool).

freemkv update-keys --url <your-keydb-url>

Saved to ~/.config/freemkv/keydb.cfg and used automatically from then on.

freemkv disc:// mkv://Movie.mkv

That's it. Scans the disc, decrypts, muxes to MKV with all streams and labels.

freemkv rips the main title by default. Add -t all to rip every title on the disc as separate files, or -t N to pick a specific one. Run freemkv info disc:// to see all titles with durations.

Insert a disc, walk away. Unattended ripping with a web dashboard.

docker pull ghcr.io/freemkv/autorip:latest

services:
  autorip:
    image: ghcr.io/freemkv/autorip:latest
    devices:
      - /dev/sr0:/dev/sr0
    ports:
      - 8080:8080
    volumes:
      - ./config:/config
      - /mnt/media:/output
    environment:
      - TMDB_API_KEY=your_key
    privileged: true

Open localhost:8080. Configure KEYDB URL and TMDB key in Settings. Insert disc — it rips, looks up the title, organizes into Movies/Title (Year)/Title.mkv, ejects, waits for the next one.

• Open source — pure Rust, MIT licensed
• It sees more — BD-J parsers extract stream labels other tools miss
• It's fast — firmware upload removes riplock, adaptive batch sizing, 17+ MB/s
• It decrypts — AACS 1.0 + 2.0, CSS — all transparent and automatic
• It streams — disc, file, ISO, network, stdin/stdout — any source to any destination
• It automates — Docker container with web UI, TMDB, webhooks

freemkv disc:// mkv://Dune.mkv                     # Rip to MKV, main title (the default)
freemkv disc:// m2ts://Dune.m2ts                   # Rip to transport stream, main title
freemkv disc:// mkv://out/ -t all                  # Rip every title, one file each
freemkv iso://Dune.iso mkv://Dune.mkv               # ISO to MKV
freemkv m2ts://Dune.m2ts mkv://Dune.mkv             # Remux
freemkv disc:// network://192.0.2.11:9000            # Stream over network
freemkv network://0.0.0.0:9000 mkv://Dune.mkv      # Receive from network
freemkv disc:// stdio:// | ffmpeg -i pipe:0 ...     # Pipe to ffmpeg
freemkv info disc://                                 # Show disc info

Supports LG, ASUS, HP, and other MediaTek-based BD-RE drives. Linux, macOS, and Windows. Pioneer planned.

freemkv info disc:// --share

Captures your drive's hardware profile and submits it as a GitHub issue. No disc data, no personal info, no keys. Use --mask to anonymize serial numbers.

CLI · Library · Autorip · Emulator · MIT