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Not looking so bad now (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I highly suggest that you make ripped backups. I learned the hard way, I digitised my grandfather's CD collection and some of his DVDs, some of which were already damaged beyond repair. Some of his broken DVDs are less than 20 years old. They are not scratched, they are in mint condition.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Yeah. Was thinking of starting that this year. Getting ready to switch my last Windows machine to Linux and it’s the one running the BluRay drive. Linux is way easier to rip with.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I have a decent dvd/blu-ray collection and was hoping to rip them and put them on Jellyfin. I haven’t ever ripped video before, only CDs and that was a long time ago. I also would have to pick up a usb disc reader or similar since I don’t have one in my machine. Any suggestions on applications to use or external disc readers to look out for? I’m running Linux not windows.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Probably the same software tbh. Handbrake. Whatever you choose, it's nearly all ffmpeg under the hood.

    Downloading might still be better, depending if you're in the subtitles gang or not. Disc subtitles are ugly af, and might not play without transcoding on some devices.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Check out the makemkv forums on drive advice. The gui makemkv should work as well, not so much anything relying on the command line tools (arm ripper, etc).

    Handbrake is encoding software that works pretty well and can encode straight from disc.

    VLC can also do it.

    I have personally started dd'ing to iso then encoding the main feature from that for my server, and saving the iso separately just in case I really want to play those dumb dvd extra features and fbi warnings.

    Ripping can be a pain, there's all kinds of encryption hoops to jump through, and I have come across a few dvds that I just couldn't rip no matter what I tried.

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