Bad-sector recovery
A tolerant sweep reads the whole disc and skips past unreadable sectors, then patch passes retry only the damage, multi-attempt, with per-sector timeouts and range bisection.
MIT Licensed · 100% Rust · Rip & Mux
Own your movies, not just the discs.
- UHD
- BD
- HD DVD
- DVD
- AACS 1.0, 2.0, & 2.1
Free & open source · Linux, macOS & Windows · Intel & ARM
One pipeline, built on one idea.
Disc → MKV
Mux every readable title to a standards-clean MKV: video, audio, subtitles, chapters. DVDs (CSS) work out of the box; Blu-ray and 4K UHD need decryption keys.
Dissect, don’t just rip
Pull one facet of a title out on its own — every video, audio, or
subtitle track to its own native file
(video://, audio://, sub://),
a chapter sidecar (chapters://), or the whole title
structure as json://. Or export a play-everywhere
mp4:// in a single decrypt pass.
Insert a disc, get an MKV
autorip is a service that auto-detects optical drives, runs the full sweep → patch → mux pipeline on disc insert, and exposes a resumable web UI for settings, progress, and history. Run it as a single binary or in a container.
Open source, single binary
Pure Rust. Download a prebuilt binary for Linux, macOS, or Windows, or build from source. The whole toolchain is licensed MIT: run it anywhere, audit it, build on it.
How it works
Three composable stages: read everything the drive can recover, then chase the rest. See how recovery works →
1
Sweep
Read the whole disc sequentially. Skip ahead past bad sectors, mark them, never abort.
2
Patch
Come back for the bad ranges with targeted, multi-attempt retries and bisection.
3
Mux
Decrypt and mux the recovered image into a clean, fully-featured MKV.
freemkv composes a source and a destination URL, with no rigid subcommands. Read from a disc, ISO, or M2TS; write to MKV, ISO, M2TS, a network stream, or stdout.
# Rip a disc straight to MKV — the main path (decrypt + mux)
$ freemkv disc:// mkv://Movie.mkv
# Remux an existing ISO to MKV — no disc needed, same shape
$ freemkv iso://Disc.iso mkv://Movie.mkv
# Index a disc image, or extract its elementary streams
$ freemkv iso://Disc.iso fvi://Disc.fvi
$ freemkv iso://Disc.iso demux://tracks/
# Pipe decrypted output to another tool over stdout
$ freemkv disc:// stdio:// | ffmpeg -i - …Or run the whole thing as a service: insert a disc, get an MKV:
# Run the autorip binary as a daemon, then open http://<host>:8080
$ ./autorip disc:// defaults to the main title; run freemkv info disc://
to list every title with durations, or add -t N to pick one. The same
--multipass recovery and decryption apply to whichever source and sink
you compose.
autorip runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows as a single binary (or a Linux container). Download autorip · see the autorip docs for setup and decryption keys for Blu-ray and 4K UHD.