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You can play the MKV file you created using VLC media player (assuming you have hardware that can play the content… most modern PCs can handle 4K 10bit playback but some older PCs might struggle). I actually have my media files saved on my main computer (which functions as a media server) and have a few tiny PCs in the house that connect to the main server using Ethernet connections, and stream the media from the storage in the server PC. Local playback from an internal storage device works too.
You likely will need to invest in a specific type of blu-ray drive that is considered "UHD friendly". Basically many optical drive manufacturers have locked down their drives to make them not able to copy certain Blu-ray Discs, at the behest of the movie studios that love to put copy protection features into their discs supposedly in the name of stopping piracy (even though these practices mainly just stop their customers from making legitimate copies of their media and doesn't do anything to actually stop piracy).
The solution is to find the correct type of drive and depending on what drive you have you may need to flash a specific firmware to it in order to make it be a little less uptight about making copies of discs… then it can function to make these copies and is considered a "UHD friendly" drive.
Personally I got a UHD friendly internal blu-ray drive in my server PC that I use to rip Blu-ray Discs. They do make external options if you wanted to rip discs using a laptop or another computer without hard drive bays.
MakeMKV forums has a couple of topics on UHD friendly drives that can help you decide which drive to buy to make rips with.
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