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DVD backups....Main movie or full disc?

Specop 007

Specop 007

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Just curious what people are doing. I'm just starting (Yes, a bit behind the curve) and havent quite decided. Thinking MM for regulars and Full Disc (ISO?) for Directors Cut / Special Editions.
 
Disc space is dirt cheap nowadays so there is no reason to not rip the entire disc to the container of your choice. Besides you are only talking about ~7GB for a full DVD.

For DVDs, I use the free version of DVDFab and rip it to its native .vob format (i.e. Video_TS/Audio_TS format). For Blu-rays, I puchased MakeMKV and rip only the main movie with the DTS-MA/Dolby TrueHD tracks.
 
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JackBurton said:
Rip to ISO, main movie only with main audio track and no subtitles (unless I need the subtitles).
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What are you using as a player for ISO's? Right now I'm looking at using MediaPortal but it doesnt seem to handle ISO formats in a graceful manner.
 
You will miss out on the bloopers/outtakes if you don't do the whole movie and those are sometimes funnier than the whole movie.
 
Matt1970 said:
You will miss out on the bloopers/outtakes if you don't do the whole movie and those are sometimes funnier than the whole movie.
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Yes, and you'll also miss out on FBI warnings, old previews and commercials. If you want the extras, by all means, rip the entire disc. For me, when I sit down, I just want to watch the movie and have it start as soon as I click on the file. No FBI warnings, no old previews or commercials. Just the movie.
 
Hey jack any particular reason you use iso over say mkv?

I've personally been ripping my dvds and blurays with makemkv leaving just the video and the main audio track (hd audio).

On a couple things (Whose Line Is It Anyways outtakes) i ripped those as well. But for the most part i only have the main movies on my server and front ends. if i really want to watch outtakes ill go grab the disc
 
velillen said:
Hey jack any particular reason you use iso over say mkv?

I've personally been ripping my dvds and blurays with makemkv leaving just the video and the main audio track (hd audio).

On a couple things (Whose Line Is It Anyways outtakes) i ripped those as well. But for the most part i only have the main movies on my server and front ends. if i really want to watch outtakes ill go grab the disc
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I think either one is fine. I've just always used ISO because if I need to burn to disc, it's really easy to do. But either format is fine. As long as its a 1 for 1 copy, I'd just use whatever your media front end supports.
 
velillen said:
Hey jack any particular reason you use iso over say mkv?

I've personally been ripping my dvds and blurays with makemkv leaving just the video and the main audio track (hd audio).

On a couple things (Whose Line Is It Anyways outtakes) i ripped those as well. But for the most part i only have the main movies on my server and front ends. if i really want to watch outtakes ill go grab the disc
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What are you using to rip to mkv? Also can you then burn it back to DVD easily?
 
Specop 007 said:
What are you using to rip to mkv? Also can you then burn it back to DVD easily?
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Why would you need to burn it back to DVD when you have the disc in the first place? And he is using MakeMKV.

For all formats, I rip to mkv uncompressed (MakeMKV works for this for all movies except BluRays with subtitles) and just store the disc. If I want to see the extras/bloopers/whatever I can just pull out the actual disc to watch.
 
abaez said:
Why would you need to burn it back to DVD when you have the disc in the first place? And he is using MakeMKV.

For all formats, I rip to mkv uncompressed (MakeMKV works for this for all movies except BluRays with subtitles) and just store the disc. If I want to see the extras/bloopers/whatever I can just pull out the actual disc to watch.
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Yep i use makemkv.

Why are you saying it doesnt work? I've used makemkv for movies with subtitles all the time. Sometimes it a bit of trail and error but i just rip with all english subtitles and then play back and find the correct one and just mux out the rest.
 
Does MakeMKV actually convert BluRay PGS subtitles now? I know that when you rip BR's with it it stays as PGS and no program supports them except perhaps VLC? I haven't tried.
 
abaez said:
Does MakeMKV actually convert BluRay PGS subtitles now? I know that when you rip BR's with it it stays as PGS and no program supports them except perhaps VLC? I haven't tried.
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I believe it converts them now (to ASS?). I just know i ripped Akira the other day with subs and it plays back fine on my htpc (shark007 codec pack) and on this pc (vlc)
 
I always did main movies just to cut out all of the crap and menus. I've probably wasted a year of my life just skipping through previews, FBI warnings, and menu loads.

When I click play, the movie actually plays. Oh and I usually do a bit of a chop job on both ends to cut out credits and any useless intros.
 
I end up doing full folder rips in My Movies on WHS, with AnyDVD. This way I can just hit the DVD menu button on the remote when the warnings come up, no PUO's for me. Plus the menus are handy for picking scenes sometimes, extras, etc. Disc in, autorip to server/metadata, pop out and throw another disc in.
 
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