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I have many older DVDs that I don't want to lose. It might be too late - at least one has a skip/freeze in it. 1. Has anyone made backups of their DVDs to a PC? 2. What software did you use? 3. How much storage do I need for a single DVD? 4. Is it legal? === I would like to apologize to anyone I have *not* offended. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly. | ||
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Have you tried Handbrake ( free ) and open source ? | |||
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There are free ways (Handbrake, others), but I use AnyDVD and CloneDVD2 (both paid). They work well for me. Generally, it's about 5GB per DVD (4.7 to be exact), although you can compress (but lose quality). Store-bought DVDs are double-sided, so 9.4GB. Ripping software assumes you'll rip to single-sided. I rip to an ISO image. I can burn those to blank DVDs later easily. It is legal to make one backup of what you own, if I recall correctly. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry "Never go through life saying 'I should have'..." - quote from the 9/11 Boatlift Story (thanks, sdy for posting it) | |||
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I don't save DVDs per se, but I do load all of the content to iTunes. It does arrange them by album and artist. This is then backed up to the cloud. Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are once more slaves. -D.H. Lawrence | |||
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If the DVD is too damaged, you can likely find a disk image torrent on the file sharing networks. It's not pirating since you already own the DVD. ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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Thanks, all! I'll look into "Handbrake". My linux box doesn't have a dvd player, so I'll look into Windows. The DVD's are all store-bought, but everything I own should still fit on one 1TB external HD. My wife's collection, though... that may require an HLOC to cover. === I would like to apologize to anyone I have *not* offended. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly. | |||
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I use makeMKV which is free as it keeps the full data and does not compress it. Most DVD movies are like 4-7gbs. You can also do BluRays. If I want to make an mp4 (compressed file) to play in the car for the kids I use Handbrake. I buy pretty much everything used. Rip to hard drive and put the disc away. ———————————————— The world's not perfect, but it's not that bad. If we got each other, and that's all we have. I will be your brother, and I'll hold your hand. You should know I'll be there for you! | |||
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VLC plays DVD movies. Is free and works on Linux. PC | |||
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Free use says it’s legal to make one backup copy. However, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 makes it illegal to break any encryption designed to prevent copying. Fortunately, the tools to break encryption (software) are not illegal. Figuratively, it is legal to leave your house, but you are locked inside without a key, and it is illegal to pick the lock. Fortunately, you can order a lock picking set from Amazon.  You must decide how comfortable you are with making a copy of something you already own.I asked my brother in Federal LE about this. He said that that while in Afghanistan, he could watch about every movie ever made from military servers. I’m thinking the Feds don’t care too much about it for personal use. Let’s just say that Plex servers aren’t being filled up with only home movies. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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I have found that software for ripping encrypted discs is often able to successfully rip a disc too scratched to play in a regular player. One of the ways encryption works is by purposefully encoding bad data, which the player ignores. Software designed to break encryption can often sort through a scratched disc and make enough corrections to produce a usable copy. Sometimes. Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus | |||
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I used to do this when I had a home server. Lately I have just repurchasing everything digitally to stream. Anyhow, MakeMKV and DVDFab where what i used. | |||
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I use WinX DVD Copy Pro to make an ISO copy that I can virtually mount using VLC to play. I also have WinX DVD Ripper to convert episodes to mp4 files. Space was a big consideration. My ISOs for Seinfeld ranged from 6,000,000 KB to 8,000,000 KB. I bought 1 TB MicroDisk. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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DVDFab has worked well for me. In several cases it was able to read a very damaged disk and create one usable in a dvd player | |||
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I’m actually looking at building a home theater PC so that I can watch my DVD collection from any TV in my house via Plex without having to get out of my seat. Is there a reason why you decided to abandon the home server concept? Thanks “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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whanson-wi, just as a matter of interest mate , what Linux are you running ? | |||
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I’m still using the ancient dvd shrink. I just ripped my Expanse dvds to my hard drive so I can stream them. Not minority enough! | |||
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MakeMKV to get an image, and then Hanbrake to convert to MP4. This works for BR's as well. I store mine on a NAS and serve with Plex. Works great for me.  "We've done four already, but now we're steady..." | |||
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Storage space is a a major concern with video. Maybe not so bad with older standard movies 8gb or so but can get much larger with new Blu Ray even with the newer compression techniques. I rip all my audio CD's and serve them out in FLAC lossless format also uncompressed. It takes up a lot of room but nothing compared to video. Personally, I don't collect video only audio (800+ cd's) and listen on a number of local devices. It would be nice to have a great DVD collection but now with Blu Ray, 4K, and Atmos the size issue makes it not practical albeit possible. Think it through. | |||
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My thought was to use the home theater PC for my DVDs and a couple of the Blu Rays that I currently have. Additional purchases would all be from streaming providers so as to not have to have a place to store them. I watch a lot of TV shows on DVD, and a lot of what I have, along with some oddball movies that I have are not available from streaming providers. So my desire to not have to physically put a DVD into a player coupled with the fact that I’m not looking to add much if any more than I already have to the computer along with the inability to buy some of my stuff in a streaming format is what has me looking into a HTPC. Based upon what I’ve just outlined, do you think an HTPC is feasible? Thanks “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” | |||
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With x265 encoding, DVDs are about 1GB, usually less, with no loss in perceived quality (There's always data loss with re-encoding, just like the mp3 vs FLAC debate, which rivals 9mm vs .45). Between DVD & BluRay, I'm almost to 2k movies on my plex server. MakeMKV -> Handbrake (main movie, ENG & ESP audio, ENG & ESP subs). mediacentermaster is the program I use to rename/download cover art/catalog my movies. It takes about 10-15 clicks & 10-15 minutes to rip a DVD, then about 45 to encode. I could automate it more, but the largest time is ripping & encoding, so I browse Sigforum.... smschulz is probably correct about Bluray & Atmos, I don't have the equipment (or golden eyes & ears) to take advantage of the super-fi stuff, but I'm sure it would be an expensive pain in the ass to rip & store. | |||
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