I started building an all-BluRay collection back in 2018. I saw the writing on the wall when I would go to watch a movie with friends on streaming and it would be gone.
Almost all of my favorite movies are mine now. I see a lot of comments talking about pirating, but for me personally, the display I get and being able to just have guests grab from the wall is a lot cooler than scrolling.
Not to mention, some of them are quite collectible. It’s neat having some movies that are really rare and I know I had to work to find them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good to know. I’m not picky on subtitles but my wife needs them. A friend of mine is very familiar with the high seas so I may consider getting his help instead.
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.
I started doing that a while back, but quickly realized that it’s both faster and less effort to torrent those same movies than to fanny about ripping the discs…
My Spotify playlists get greyed-out sections in them with disturbing regularity. As soon as I figure out how to download them without installing software that gives me a million viruses, I’ll be deleting my account…
I started building an all-BluRay collection back in 2018. I saw the writing on the wall when I would go to watch a movie with friends on streaming and it would be gone.
Almost all of my favorite movies are mine now. I see a lot of comments talking about pirating, but for me personally, the display I get and being able to just have guests grab from the wall is a lot cooler than scrolling.
Not to mention, some of them are quite collectible. It’s neat having some movies that are really rare and I know I had to work to find them.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good to know. I’m not picky on subtitles but my wife needs them. A friend of mine is very familiar with the high seas so I may consider getting his help instead.
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.
I’ll look into it, I appreciate it.
Buy one that can also burn m-disc
I started doing that a while back, but quickly realized that it’s both faster and less effort to torrent those same movies than to fanny about ripping the discs…
My Spotify playlists get greyed-out sections in them with disturbing regularity. As soon as I figure out how to download them without installing software that gives me a million viruses, I’ll be deleting my account…