Best way to rip tons of DVDs

[TheRunningOtaku]

If you just want to rip the main movie (with your choice of subtitles and audio tracks), and encode later, then I highly recommend MakeMKV. It places the video in an MKV container file, but doesn't re-encode the video, so it's extremely quick.

 

FYI, when you encode the video via Handbrake (or whatever you choose), make sure to Deinterlace the video!

Isn't MKV a video format?

hmm that sounds good! Android can play MKV so I'll look into that Thanks!

Can't handbrake do that though?

[TheProfosist]

Isn't MKV a video format?

hmm that sounds good! Android can play MKV so I'll look into that Thanks!

Can't handbrake do that though?

Mkv is a container. As long G as you only want one audio track your beat off going mp4 especially if any sort of portable is envolved.

[TheRunningOtaku]

Mkv is a container. As long G as you only want one audio track your beat off going mp4 especially if any sort of portable is envolved.

Does MP4 support subtitles, though? 

Android supports mkv (as of Android 4.0) so I think I'm okay with that...

It's okay - I could always rip to ISO or MKV if they're both as intensive on the CPU, then use my main rig to do the encoding.

[dalekphalm]

Isn't MKV a video format?

hmm that sounds good! Android can play MKV so I'll look into that Thanks!

Can't handbrake do that though?

MKV is a container file (the extension .mkv). It can have many different "codecs" (video format) inside though. The most common is h.264, but it can also take MPEG2 (which is what DVD's are encoded in). The specific codec determines the type of quality and compression it can have, and the container determines extra supported features (like embedded subtitles, multiple audio tracks, etc).

 

And no, I don't believe that Handbrake can simply rip the movie file without any transcoding (Though it is possible that I could be mistaken).

 

Mkv is a container. As long G as you only want one audio track your beat off going mp4 especially if any sort of portable is envolved.

If he's using iOS, then maybe? But Android supports MKV perfectly fine. I've been playing MKV files back on my Android ASUS Transformer TF-101 tablet for what, 4 years now?

 

I personally feel that MKV is the superior container over MP4.

 

 

Does MP4 support subtitles, though? 

Android supports mkv (as of Android 4.0) so I think I'm okay with that...

It's okay - I could always rip to ISO or MKV if they're both as intensive on the CPU, then use my main rig to do the encoding.

It will be about the same intensity to rip to ISO vs MKV. A little faster with MakeMKV actually, since you're stripping out all the menu's, extras, etc. Though there are ISO ripping programs that allow you to do the same thing while ripping to ISO, I just happen to feel like having it as an MKV file will be more versatile.

 

If you have a ton of free HDD space, you could always rip to ISO as a permanent long term storage archive, then encode the ISO to MKV h.264 (making sure to enable deinterlacing) for your actual usable file.

[TheRunningOtaku]

MKV is a container file (the extension .mkv). It can have many different "codecs" (video format) inside though. The most common is h.264, but it can also take MPEG2 (which is what DVD's are encoded in). The specific codec determines the type of quality and compression it can have, and the container determines extra supported features (like embedded subtitles, multiple audio tracks, etc).

 

And no, I don't believe that Handbrake can simply rip the movie file without any transcoding (Though it is possible that I could be mistaken).

 

If he's using iOS, then maybe? But Android supports MKV perfectly fine. I've been playing MKV files back on my Android ASUS Transformer TF-101 tablet for what, 4 years now?

 

I personally feel that MKV is the superior container over MP4.

 

 

It will be about the same intensity to rip to ISO vs MKV. A little faster with MakeMKV actually, since you're stripping out all the menu's, extras, etc. Though there are ISO ripping programs that allow you to do the same thing while ripping to ISO, I just happen to feel like having it as an MKV file will be more versatile.

 

If you have a ton of free HDD space, you could always rip to ISO as a permanent long term storage archive, then encode the ISO to MKV h.264 (making sure to enable deinterlacing) for your actual usable file.

I think I'll try the MKV version, then. Maybe I could experiment with it and get back to you guys later on.

MP4 and MKV seem like a personal choice, and with media streaming to IOS or Android, the content will have to be encoded for streaming anyways, if I use apps like Plex Media Server or other standards. From what I can tell though MP4 doesn't support the menus or various subtitles

Handbrake can rip to both ISO and MKV - I'll see which one is faster, and do that. ISO is simply a copy of the disk, so it'll keep the menus and all that.

[TheProfosist]

Does MP4 support subtitles, though? 

Android supports mkv (as of Android 4.0) so I think I'm okay with that...

It's okay - I could always rip to ISO or MKV if they're both as intensive on the CPU, then use my main rig to do the encoding.

They can without hardsubbing but they dont do that good of a job. What are you doing that you need aubtitles for? The only thing that would off hand everytime would be anime.

Well you would rip to ISO or folder, then encode to MKV or MP4.

 

MKV is a container file (the extension .mkv). It can have many different "codecs" (video format) inside though. The most common is h.264, but it can also take MPEG2 (which is what DVD's are encoded in). The specific codec determines the type of quality and compression it can have, and the container determines extra supported features (like embedded subtitles, multiple audio tracks, etc).

 

And no, I don't believe that Handbrake can simply rip the movie file without any transcoding (Though it is possible that I could be mistaken).

 

If he's using iOS, then maybe? But Android supports MKV perfectly fine. I've been playing MKV files back on my Android ASUS Transformer TF-101 tablet for what, 4 years now?

 

I personally feel that MKV is the superior container over MP4.

 

 

It will be about the same intensity to rip to ISO vs MKV. A little faster with MakeMKV actually, since you're stripping out all the menu's, extras, etc. Though there are ISO ripping programs that allow you to do the same thing while ripping to ISO, I just happen to feel like having it as an MKV file will be more versatile.

 

If you have a ton of free HDD space, you could always rip to ISO as a permanent long term storage archive, then encode the ISO to MKV h.264 (making sure to enable deinterlacing) for your actual usable file.

AVI/H.263/DivX/XviD was what was mainly in mkv and it competing container ogm prior to H.246 becoming the standard.

Handbrake is made for encoding and transcoding. You would need something like DVD Decryptor or AnyDVD to do a full rip to drive like I was suggestion you do to use as a source.

Im saying without 3rd party software. Also is it using the GPU for decoding, which is way more efficient?

MKV is superior but is far less suporrted by hardware devices as its not reconised as ai mainstream format/container.

Handbrake if i recall automatically finds the main movie and you select what track you want to use from it. There are a bunch of very good guides for it. I would tell you how to do it myself but I havnt used that in probably 5 years myself, only helped other troubleshoot or explain certain things.

if he owns the discs, which I believe he does. There is no need for the ISo as long term as he has the discs.

I think I'll try the MKV version, then. Maybe I could experiment with it and get back to you guys later on.

MP4 and MKV seem like a personal choice, and with media streaming to IOS or Android, the content will have to be encoded for streaming anyways, if I use apps like Plex Media Server or other standards. From what I can tell though MP4 doesn't support the menus or various subtitles

Handbrake can rip to both ISO and MKV - I'll see which one is faster, and do that. ISO is simply a copy of the disk, so it'll keep the menus and all that.

mp4 vs MKV is not a personal choice but a device choice and a hardware support choice. As it all depends on what you all want to watch what your encoding on. MKV doesnt really have menu's... as for subtitle support its limited but for most general stuff that isnt a worry.

ISO will be quier as its just a direct copy of the disc which is not what you want, at least as a final file. the whole point of encoding is getting it down to a single files or folder of a few files for easy access. Unless you want to watch the DVDs like they are DVDs just without the disc you dont want the ISO as your final file.

[TheRunningOtaku]

They can without hardsubbing but they dont do that good of a job. What are you doing that you need aubtitles for? The only thing that would off hand everytime would be anime.

Well you would rip to ISO or folder, then encode to MKV or MP4.

 AVI/H.263/DivX/XviD was what was mainly in mkv and it competing container ogm prior to H.246 becoming the standard.

Handbrake is made for encoding and transcoding. You would need something like DVD Decryptor or AnyDVD to do a full rip to drive like I was suggestion you do to use as a source.

Im saying without 3rd party software. Also is it using the GPU for decoding, which is way more efficient?

MKV is superior but is far less suporrted by hardware devices as its not reconised as ai mainstream format/container.

Handbrake if i recall automatically finds the main movie and you select what track you want to use from it. There are a bunch of very good guides for it. I would tell you how to do it myself but I havnt used that in probably 5 years myself, only helped other troubleshoot or explain certain things.

if he owns the discs, which I believe he does. There is no need for the ISo as long term as he has the discs.

mp4 vs MKV is not a personal choice but a device choice and a hardware support choice. As it all depends on what you all want to watch what your encoding on. MKV doesnt really have menu's... as for subtitle support its limited but for most general stuff that isnt a worry.

ISO will be quier as its just a direct copy of the disc which is not what you want, at least as a final file. the whole point of encoding is getting it down to a single files or folder of a few files for easy access. Unless you want to watch the DVDs like they are DVDs just without the disc you dont want the ISO as your final file.

I prefer having subs in my videos, and yeah. There'll be a few foreign movies, there, and a ton of anime. (My friends and i are huge anime watchers) but that would be mostly downloaded (.avi format)

 

I read that MKV is basically a container for a video format like avi or h.264. Hopefully H.265 comes out soon so I can use it

 

I don't think device support matters that much for now It'll be read on mostly android or PC, (not even 100% sure about android, since I'll have to make a VPN and people would have to connect to it so I could use DLNA, etc)

 

I'm looking to throw away/donate away the CDs after I'm done, since the main purpose of this is to reduce the clutter from 100+ DVDs to 1 NAS box. There'll be RAID 5 for Redundancy and I don't think we'll really cry over it if we lose the data anyhow, so I won't need a backup of the ISOs at all.

 

I'll do some experimentation - and get back to you guys after. Maybe try 5 ISOs and seeing how long that takes, then 5 MKV encodes for comparison. 

[TheProfosist]

Well IOS's will only take a couple of min as I said. Either way I would rip these as the source for doing your MKV's. As long as you choose the correct settings the encode should be substantially smaller but look just as good.