
DVD and Blu-Ray are such shitty straight-jacketed formats that moving to digital files is a liberation. The biggest scare is not having a back up and having a corrupted hard drive lose everything. Here there is a steeper learning curve, but ultimately you have more precision over the encoding parameters to get the more efficient rips from the source material, even at times straddling into the realms of digital restoration.ģ) As for pitfalls? There isn't many really. The results are pretty good on the whole but higher quality, more efficient results can be achieved by using more advanced tools.Ĭ) Use MeGUI, AviSynth and a multitude of other tools to encode in a lossy manner. Now you start to have options and can strike a balance between quality, file size and encoding time, dependent upon the source and your needs. This just essentially makes a 1:1 copy of whatever video/audio content is on the disc and thus requires the same amount space as the content does on the disc.ī) Use Handbrake (or similar) to transcode video and audio in a lossy manner with minimum input in a user friendly way. You'll need DVD Decrypter, AnyDVD or similar to remove it.Ģ) Ripping comes in roughly three flavours:Ī) Use MakeMKV or similar to losslessly transcode video and audio into a highly flexible MKV container. 1) Every commercial DVD and Blu-Ray has copyright protection.
