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Question regarding ripping dvds (yes DVDs) (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I know the majority opinion is not to do it for various reasons, but basically I started to backup the majority of my dvd collection that I created over the years since I have the time and they were just collecting dust. Turns out though I guess I'm doing it "wrong" or at least not in the original quality since I used handbrake instead of makemkv. I'm already 160 dvds in and about 40 more to go, is it worth, quality wise, going back and actually ripping? Is there a way to compare them? To clairify, I'll be using makemkv from now on for the rest.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Handbrake isn't recommended any more? That's what I'd used for my ripping. By original quality, you mean extracting the the mpeg-2 or just that Handbrake did bad transcoding?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I rip with makemkv then use handbrake for slimming down to hevc/aac. I have too many discs and not enough storage to keep the raw rips. Newer handbrake supports nvidia transcoding for hevc, getting some great quality, but I wish it would support audio tracks and subtitles better… for multilingual subtitles I have a custom ffmpeg script that does a decent enough job.

Also cropping can be a pain in the ass with both ffmpeg and handbrake, much less so on the latter.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Yeah Handbrake does fine for my collection. Results depend greatly on what encoding you options you use