Last night tried to use VLC to rip DVDs for my home media server.

All three failed in some manner! What a waste of time! Trying HandBrake today.

Torrenting is probably easier

RedFox AnyDVD is a driver that circumvent the copy protection.

i use handbrake.

@stop in combination with @heyheni anydvd

Which software are you using on home server?

@hypervtechnics Custom node shit

@AlgoRythm Emby is quite nice

@hypervtechnics Meh. Writing a media server really isn't too hard.

@AlgoRythm Depends on your needs xD

Just torrent it, honestly. It’s not worth the effort.

@620hun I think ripping gives you more freedom with subtitles, quality, spoken language and is less illegal/risky as downloading

@hypervtechnics
> less illegal/risky
Use a VPN then

I‘m using MakeMKV in combination with HandBrake and/or ffmpeg cli to rip my DVDs. Then I OCR the subtitles with SubtitleEdit.
(In Germany it is totally legal for just private purposes)

@hypervtechnics

Needs: It plays movies

30 mins of work later: It plays movies

@Sumafu i configured handbrake to integrate the subtitles into the matroshka container.

I usually copy it with mplayer: mplayer dvd://n -v -dumpstream -dumpfile film.vob

(where n is the number of the stream you want to copy, you can get a list of all streams on the dvd with lsdvd)

That gives you a vob file with all subtitles and all audio streams.

If you want an mkv instead of a vob afterwards: ffmpeg -fflags +genpts -analyzeduration 1000000k -probesize 1000000k -i film.vob -c:v copy -c:a copy -c:s copy -map 0 film.mkv

This worked for me every single time. I've also tried Handbrake and a bunch of other tools, but at one moment they all fail.

@hypervtechnics but that’s not true. Proper torrents are ripped from the same Blu-Ray you’d rip.

@stop Yes, I also integrate the DVD subtitles in the container, but the DVD subtitles are bitmaps, and I want to have text based subtitles 😄

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[movietitle] +srt +sub

@Sumafu every dvd i buyed till now had textbased subtitles.

Current library after, what, 6 hours of ripping?

@stop without text based I meant Raw Text. DVDs only have bitmap subtitles

Used to use a bundle called Gordian Knot a long time ago