Does SvDshrink still works?

If you just want playable copy, then sure makemkv is the way. If you want to make proper encode, then riping vobs is the correct way. Ever tried to OCR subtitles from mkv made by makemkv?:)

Datahoarding tends to attract relatively technical people

I wish that was the case.

Caus you can rearrange a DVD structure and recode the VOBs with special subtitles, etc.

I have a copy of it archived and actually had to use it for one dvd in an anime set of mine that makemkv kept erroring out on a few years ago when backing up and setting up my plex server

People use it because it works, new doesn’t always equal better just because it’s new.

If it accomplishes what you need 🤷🏽‍♂️

I ripped over 150 mma dvds and a few movies with it and ran into one issue. it just works.

I’ve used it for years. It worked when needed. I’ll use another program when it doesn’t.

I use it to rip everything into one big vob then feed the vob through handbrake and use hardware accelerated encoding using my 3080ti to encode the movie in ~3 mins

works great for Movies but TV shows are much more complicated.

wait it's abandonware?