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How would you go about it?

What would you do?

  • Option 1 - Ripping

  • Option 2 - Downloading

  • Other - Described in thread

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HAL9000

HAL9000

Lifer
I have (at last count) 791 DVD's. My goal is to put them onto a media server, as approximately 600-800MB Files (not sure of a format / codec yet).

So there are two options available to me.

1 - Ripping
a) Rip the disc to a hard drive - 25 Mins
b) Encode the .VOB files to a useful format - 30-50 Minutes (depending on length of film)

or

1- Downloading
a) Download the film encoded - 5 Mins

1 - Legal, time consuming
2 - Illegal? Or legal grey area at least - very quick.

Poll en route.
 
That's a lot of DVDs.

I'd probably go the ripping route, just to avoid any hassle with my ISP or other entities that might get involved. There is also the whole, not legal to download thing.

If you ripped 2 per hour, it probably wouldn't be that bad.
 
Brainonska511 said:
That's a lot of DVDs.

I'd probably go the ripping route, just to avoid any hassle with my ISP or other entities that might get involved. There is also the whole, not legal to download thing.

If you ripped 2 per hour, it probably wouldn't be that bad.
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Yeah I imagine I could automate the whole process and have it done in a few months, but equally I could automate the downloading and have it done in a few days.
 
I think that with two-pass encoding you can get away with a lower bitrate than single-pass encoding. But if size is not an issue then just crank up the bitrate.
 
I just ripped all mine(500+) to mkv using makemkv so they are uncompressed with all the full audio formats as well. It took forever and took a fair chunk of space but i didnt want to compress them and wanted the full surround sound audio as well.
 
Rifterut said:
I just ripped all mine(500+) to mkv using makemkv so they are uncompressed with all the full audio formats as well. It took forever and took a fair chunk of space but i didnt want to compress them and wanted the full surround sound audio as well.
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This intrigues me, is makemkv something that would rip straight from disk? Can it be done in linux?
 
HAL9000 said:
This intrigues me, is makemkv something that would rip straight from disk? Can it be done in linux?
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yes straight to disk, and you can cut out the crap intro's previews too. It's so easy a 5 year old could do it. its like put disk in, open program, hit the decrypt button, select the audio/video files you want from the tree(its easy, they are the big ones not the less than 2 min previews and intro's) and it puts them all into one mkv file for you.

I dont think it works in linux i tried it under wine but the decrypting part did not work.
 
Rifterut said:
yes straight to disk, and you can cut out the crap intro's previews too. It's so easy a 5 year old could do it. its like put disk in, open program, hit the decrypt button, select the audio/video files you want from the tree(its easy, they are the big ones not the less than 2 min previews and intro's) and it puts them all into one mkv file for you.

I dont think it works in linux i tried it under wine but the decrypting part did not work.
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That's a damn shame, I want to do this in a CLI, so I can script it all nicely.
 
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