Question regarding ripping dvds (yes DVDs) (lemmynsfw.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by ponchow8NC@lemmynsfw.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I know the majority opinion is not to do it for various reasons, but basically I started to backup the majority of my dvd collection that I created over the years since I have the time and they were just collecting dust. Turns out though I guess I'm doing it "wrong" or at least not in the original quality since I used handbrake instead of makemkv. I'm already 160 dvds in and about 40 more to go, is it worth, quality wise, going back and actually ripping? Is there a way to compare them? To clairify, I'll be using makemkv from now on for the rest.

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[-] kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago

If you're doing it for preservation and data hoarding then it's probably worth it to redo it, but unless you're very picky odds are there isn't much difference depending on what you saved them as in Handbrake. If you plan on keeping the DVDs then I would watch a bit of one as it's then play a bit of the file and if you don't have a problem with the difference then I wouldn't worry about it too much. DVD is only 480 SD typically anyway. I'm not an expert though, just a fellow ripper of DVDs.

[-] ponchow8NC@lemmynsfw.com 10 points 1 year ago

Thank you I'll compare them and yeah its just for watching I'm no video expert haha. Talking to a guy who used to watch episodes of anime on youtube that were split up into 16 different part in spanish at 240p.

[-] kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Good deal. Yeah I have few old movies or of circulation I downloaded in the 00's in 240p that seemed fine back then but on my monitor or TV now make it look like I'm watching it on a Lite Brite.