Watching Blu-ray movies with family and friends at home in systems like a Blu-ray player or computer is fun. It is very difficult to carry a Blu-ray player if you are planning a vacation. Luckily, transferring Blu-ray to USB flash drive is a good way to watch the Blu-ray movie on a laptop when you are on a trip, on a plane or where you have no wifi/cellular data connection with. A USB flash drive is very easy to carry around, without worry of scratching and occupying computer hard drive space. The processing of copying Blu-ray to USB flash drive is very straightforward. A piece of professional Blu-ray ripping software can help you easily decrypt and digitize Blu-ray discs and then save them to USB flash drive on Windows 10/8/7 or Mac. Continue reading to know how.

Copy Blu-ray to USB Flash Drive

What You Need to Transfer a Blu-ray to USB Flash Drive:

● Your Blu-ray discs.

● A Blu-ray disc drive. If your computer came with any disc drive at all, it was probably a DVD drive. However, you'll need a Blu-Ray reader in order to rip your Blu-Ray discs (obviously). An external good Blu-ray drive can be purchased for as little as $25.

Note: If you want to rip 4K UHD Blu-rays, you'll need to get a 4K Blu-ray drive.

● A program to rip the files.. We'll be using EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper in this guide, which is available for both Windows and Mac.

Why choose EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper for ripping Blu-ray discs

EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper earns its award as the top-ranking Blu-ray ripping software mainly due to rich features, super fast-processing, clean, safe and stable functions. It can help you copy and transfer any home-made or copy-protected Blu-ray (DVD) to USB flash drive in 3 simple steps. With it, you can rip Blu-rays yet DVDs to various digital formats e.g. MP4, h.264, HEVC, MKV, AVI, WMV, MPEG, MOV, FLV, etc., or copy BDMV folder/DVD folder in 1:1 ratio or a single M2TS/VOB file. It can easily handle Blu-ray discs with AACS encryption, BD+ and the latest MKB technology and decrypt DVDs with CSS, RCE, Sony ArccOS, UOPs, Disney X-project DRM, etc. on both Windows and Mac.

This is all you need. Once you have all three of these things ready, grab your favorite Blu-Ray movies and get started to digitize them for saving to your USB flash drive.

3 Simple Steps to Rip and Copy Blu-ray Movies for USB Flash Drive

To begin with, we need to download and install EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper Windows or Mac version above according to your computer operating system. After this, we can move to the following steps to rip your old and new Blu-rays.

Step 1: After downloading, install and launch EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper. Insert your Blu-ray disc into your Blu-ray Drive (necessary for ripping Blu-ray) and click Load Blu-ray button to upload to Blu-ray movie. EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper can auto detect the right Blu-ray movie title for you. At the bottom, you can select your desired subtitle and audio track.

Load Source Blu-ray Disc

Step 2: In the Profile window, numerous video formats are provided for you. You can choose to rip Blu-ray to MP4, AVI, WMV, MOV and more. If you want to play Blu-ray movie on iPhone iPad Android, etc., contained the movie output format in MP4 is recommended. Besides, Blu-ray backup mode is also available.

Select output profile

Tech details:

1. To get the best possible output quality and smallest file size, convert Blu-ray to HEVC MP4. It has 50% smaller size at the same quality.
2. The default setting works well. Of course, if you want to customize video and audio encoding settings, just click the Settings button to customize these settings.

Recommended settings:

1. You're not suggested to adjust the frame rate and aspect ratio, if not necessary.
2. Use the codec H.264 or H.265 and lower the bitrate to a lower level. For example, adjusting the original Normal quality to bitrates of around 1800-2000 is acceptable without noticeable pixellation.
3. Lower the resolution. Typical Blu-ray videos are 1920×1080 (Full HD). Adjust the resolution to lower 1280×720 or higher won't make any quality difference.

Please note: Adjusting these variables have some effect on the re-encoded video quality. Remember the file size and video quality is based more on bitrate than resolution which means bitrate higher results in big file size, and lower visible quality loss.

Advanced Settings for Blu-ray to HEVC MP4

Step 3: Plug in your USB flash drive to computer. Move mouse cursor to Ouput bar and then hit Folder icon to set the USB flash drive as the destination folder to store the ripped Blu-ray movie video. Then hit the Convert button to start copying and transferring Blu-ray to USB flash drive.

Final Words:

As you see, it's very easy to get your movies off of your Blu-ray discs and then save them onto your USB flash drive. If you want digitize your movie collection with the most compatibility, Blu-ray to MP4 is the best idea. The ripped MP4 files can be played on almost any media player, computer, laptop, tablet, mobile device, gaming system, or HD TV thru the USB port. If you want to copy your DVDs to USB flash drive, this process will work as well since EaseFab Blu-ray Ripper can cope with both Blu-ray and DVD files.