Subj : Re: Ripping DVD/BD in Linux
To   : Nightfox
From : Gamgee
Date : Sun Sep 07 2025 21:26:20

-=> Nightfox wrote to Gamgee <=-

 Ni>   Re: Ripping DVD/BD in Linux
 Ni>   By: Gamgee to All on Sun Sep 07 2025 06:47 pm

 Ga> Recently I've wanted to start trying to rip my DVD/BluRay movie collection
 Ga> in order to be able to stream them from a home Plex server.  I've had
 Ga> pretty limited success doing this in Linux so far...

 Ga> I've tried 'Handbrake' and it won't even find the title of the DVD disc
 Ga> that's in a drive.  Was going to try 'MakeMKV' but it seems quite
 Ga> convoluted to get installed and the program hasn't been updated in like 15
 Ga> years.

 Ni> I'd try with MakeMKV.  I use that in Windows, and it works fairly well.
 Ni>  It has a Linux version too; I haven't tried the Linux verison, but I
 Ni> imagine it should work as well as the Windows version.  It looks like
 Ni> there isn't a download link for the Linux version on their main site -
 Ni> it says there's a thread on their forum site where you can download the
 Ni> Linux version:

 Ni> https://forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224

Yep, I will try to get that running.  Thanks.

 Ni> I only use Handbrake for transcoding; I've never actually ripped with
 Ni> Handbrake.

Still learning some of the terminology...  So you are using Handbrake to 
do something like converting to/from different formats such as .mp4 and 
..mkv ?  This would be on an already-ripped movie file?



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