I have a lot of DVDs and Blu-Rays I'd like to digitally archive. I've been using MakeMKV which I really like because it can rip the raw video tracks in MPEG-2 and I get a lot of control over what I want to save and don't need to, chapter by chapter in many cases depending on how the DVD was set up.
And because I rip in raw MPEG-2 it's very quick since there is zero transcoding, basically as fast as the drive can read is as quick as I can rip my media.
The problem with MakeMKV, though, is there isn't any option to have the output in a .MP4 container, and .MKV isn't the most compatible container out there.
I haven't found any solution to simply swap containers from .MKV to .MP4, which would actually save me a ton of time from having to rip everything all over again.
I also don't know of any software that is as easy to use and can rip all my media in its raw original quality MPEG-2 and just drop that into a .MP4 container, but I'm hoping something like this exists.
EDIT: I may have found an option to move from MKV to MP4 called "Kirara" but I have an additional question.
Since most of my DVD collection is old animated shows, a lot of them are stored interlaced. Some software does not have deinterlacing options, which makes the video look almost unwatchably bad. The Xbox One default media player, for example.
Can someone point me in the right direction on how to pre-process my video files so that they look as good as they do when I have the "deinterlacing" option toggled on in VLC without having to worry about whether other playback devices or software can handle deinterlacing in real-time?
And because I rip in raw MPEG-2 it's very quick since there is zero transcoding, basically as fast as the drive can read is as quick as I can rip my media.
The problem with MakeMKV, though, is there isn't any option to have the output in a .MP4 container, and .MKV isn't the most compatible container out there.
I haven't found any solution to simply swap containers from .MKV to .MP4, which would actually save me a ton of time from having to rip everything all over again.
I also don't know of any software that is as easy to use and can rip all my media in its raw original quality MPEG-2 and just drop that into a .MP4 container, but I'm hoping something like this exists.
EDIT: I may have found an option to move from MKV to MP4 called "Kirara" but I have an additional question.
Since most of my DVD collection is old animated shows, a lot of them are stored interlaced. Some software does not have deinterlacing options, which makes the video look almost unwatchably bad. The Xbox One default media player, for example.
Can someone point me in the right direction on how to pre-process my video files so that they look as good as they do when I have the "deinterlacing" option toggled on in VLC without having to worry about whether other playback devices or software can handle deinterlacing in real-time?
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