Rip Blu-ray and DVD's

General Discussions
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Ok so I signed up for Plex Pass, now what? I have over 1000 DVD’s and Blu-ray’s how can I rip and store them? I’ve converted about 100+ to VUDU already I want to access my movies without using the discs.

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Try DVD Fab

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@elsworthp said:
Ok so I signed up for Plex Pass, now what? I have over 1000 DVD’s and Blu-ray’s how can I rip and store them? I’ve converted about 100+ to VUDU already I want to access my movies without using the discs.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=How+do+I+rip+my+DVD's

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DVDs are easy. Plenty of options. Blu-ray is variable because the format is variable (it’s just bad tech which is why DVDs are still sold). There are options, just none of them can ever be 100%. And even ones that work, might have some limitations. Also, people tend to want to preserve “all” of the Blu-ray and sometimes the audio just isn’t going to be compatible with most end devices.

Best advice for Blu-ray, stick disc into the icky proprietary Blu-ray player (sorry)… but you might get some things to rip “ok” with caveats I mentioned.

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And remember to convert those that are in VC-1, Plex can’t handle them very well.

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http://makemkv.com/

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@Liquidtoon said:
http://makemkv.com/

^^This, you can find the beta key on their forums to not be limited to the 30 day trial as well. Combine that will handbrake if you want to transcode it to a bit smaller size and you’re good to go.

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You probably want to do, what I did a few years back. Use Autorip! Basically that is a small piece of software that you run on your pc and if configured once you put in a dvd, it rips the dvd and (optionally) also runs it through handbrake for compressing (suggested!!). After the ripping has finished it ejects the drive and you just put in a new dvd. Ripping starts automatically.
Read about it here:

To find a working Download was a bit trickier but softpedia helps you out:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/CD-DVD-Tools/AutoRip-Portable.shtml

Basically what I did was the following: I had anydvd installed for circumventing any copyright protection, You need makemkv installed and configured (see posts above) and if you want to shrink down the size of the movie files, which I recommend have handbrake installed and configured. Basically handbrake converts your dvd from around 6-8 gb per movie to around (that were my settings) 1.5 or 2 GB without any noticeable quality loss.

However one tip from experience: If you have a decent internetspeed it is probably faster and much more painless to just download the movies you want in dvd or even better quality. (In Switzerland where I liv. e this is even legal, as long as you don’t upload stuff). If you want to go down this road I highly recommend Usenet (Sabnzbd as a downloader) and Couchpotato as an automation software. Basically you set it up (less than an hour necessary, spend 10Bucks/month on a Usenet account) and enter the film title in couchpotato (CP). CP now searches, instructs Sabnzbd to download, renames the file and puts it in the right folder.

Hope I could help you

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If you want to archive your DVDs and Blu-rays you should put some effort into doing so.

I rip Blu-rays and re-encode the video stream. It will get roughly 10 to 20 times smaller than it was before, without losing visible quality. I also re-encode the audio streams to 6-channel AC-3, mostly because most Plex clients can’t handle anything else like Dolby TrueHD, Dolby Atmos, DTS or DTS-HD. This also makes the files smaller.

Because I want some more control over my re-encodings I do it manually.

  1. Rip Blu-ray with MakeMKV (before I used AnyDVD HD but they revoked all licenses and afterwards wanted you to buy a new one for ~120 €). MakeMKV is “just” 59 €.
  2. re-encode the video stream with x264 using this command x264 --profile high --level 4.0 --crf 22 --tune film --preset veryslow --sar 1:1 --fps 24000/1001 --input-res 1920x1080 --vf crop:0,80,0,80 -o /var/tmp/geistdunkelheit_recode.264 /var/tmp/geistdunkelheit.h264
    That command uses the best compression possible (preset veryslow). It takes longer to re-encode but the file gets smaller and keep a better quality than with a faster preset. For sure I adapt --tune, --fps, --input-res and the cropping filter.
  3. I re-encode audio streams with eac3to. It can read any audio format possible on DVDs or Blu-rays and convert it into AC3. I can specify what bitrate I want, etc.
  4. I remux the streams into a new MKV using mkvtoolnix.