I'm trying to figure out the best way to do it. Anyone done it before. I would ideally want all my stuff in one location. I have a Vudo account with some purchased films there, but I have to many DVDs at $2 a pop, it would get quite expensive.
but there's some work involved in getting the libraries to decrypt DVDs installed before you get it working, and it's a little less than user friendly the first few times you use it.
There are commercial options as well, like WinX - those will cost you, but they're easier for most to install and have a nicer GUI.
You should consider what format you want to settle in on - how much loss you're willing to take (if any), what codecs, etc. - based on how you plan to play them back. And you should consider how you're going to store them, either within a library manager like Plex or just on a drive somewhere.
converted a huge DVD library (~1500 titles) to digital.
I had to have two pieces of software to defeat the encryption. One would decrypt and the other would rip.
Does Handbrake or WinX do both now?
I filled a 5 TB HD pretty quick and didn't even finish the entire library, just my favorites. Then again, I saved some space for my music, home photos, movies and Giants games. I need to get another one and get back at it again - possibly this summer?
I bought a lifetime Plex Pass as well so I could use it as a server. Now all of my movies, Giants games, and home movies.
It's a great setup though. Really nice when one of my kids wanted to take a DVD to a friends house - I used to send discs and would not always get them back. I bought a few thumb drives and now whenever that happens I just put the title on a thumb drive for them.
Plex means they could also stream it, but my bandwidth isn't always good enough.
and I have several media servers running over Plex and a few other streaming systems (I use AirVideo HD app, its not fancy but more effective than Plex IMO, Plex has a great GUI, but if you don't name the files right, it doesnt' get picked up). Love that I can on demand pretty much watch any movie, tv show, old Giants game, etc that I want. I have a chromecast on all my TVs and several old iphones or iPads that are nearby to stream and project.
I have a bunch of DVDs we never watch, thinking of setting up a NAS drive for home backup and streaming media, but it's kind of an investment of time and money.
I have used Handbrake to rip a DVD to digital before, it worked great. But it's one thing to rip a single disk, another to rip a whole library. Expecting that to take a while...
Huge, huge collection. Sounds quality, of course, is worse that vinyl already -- but I don't want it degraded further, Plus, disc by disc is a lot of very, very boring work. Is there a way to simplify and speed this up? At the end, want an index of the whole thing, too.
converted a huge DVD library (~1500 titles) to digital.
I had to have two pieces of software to defeat the encryption. One would decrypt and the other would rip.
Does Handbrake or WinX do both now?
I filled a 5 TB HD pretty quick and didn't even finish the entire library, just my favorites. Then again, I saved some space for my music, home photos, movies and Giants games. I need to get another one and get back at it again - possibly this summer?
I bought a lifetime Plex Pass as well so I could use it as a server. Now all of my movies, Giants games, and home movies.
It's a great setup though. Really nice when one of my kids wanted to take a DVD to a friends house - I used to send discs and would not always get them back. I bought a few thumb drives and now whenever that happens I just put the title on a thumb drive for them.
Plex means they could also stream it, but my bandwidth isn't always good enough.
I did the same exact thing back in 2013. Converting the disks took quite a while doing it myself, but it got done, and now everything is available to me with a button press in Plex. Gotta love it. :)
Or as you said, have Vudu do it, and you spend virtually zero time
You choose which option is more expensive for you
There are commercial options as well, like WinX - those will cost you, but they're easier for most to install and have a nicer GUI.
You should consider what format you want to settle in on - how much loss you're willing to take (if any), what codecs, etc. - based on how you plan to play them back. And you should consider how you're going to store them, either within a library manager like Plex or just on a drive somewhere.
I had to have two pieces of software to defeat the encryption. One would decrypt and the other would rip.
Does Handbrake or WinX do both now?
I filled a 5 TB HD pretty quick and didn't even finish the entire library, just my favorites. Then again, I saved some space for my music, home photos, movies and Giants games. I need to get another one and get back at it again - possibly this summer?
I bought a lifetime Plex Pass as well so I could use it as a server. Now all of my movies, Giants games, and home movies.
It's a great setup though. Really nice when one of my kids wanted to take a DVD to a friends house - I used to send discs and would not always get them back. I bought a few thumb drives and now whenever that happens I just put the title on a thumb drive for them.
Plex means they could also stream it, but my bandwidth isn't always good enough.
And I used handbrake to rip my dvds.
I have used Handbrake to rip a DVD to digital before, it worked great. But it's one thing to rip a single disk, another to rip a whole library. Expecting that to take a while...
I had to have two pieces of software to defeat the encryption. One would decrypt and the other would rip.
Does Handbrake or WinX do both now?
I filled a 5 TB HD pretty quick and didn't even finish the entire library, just my favorites. Then again, I saved some space for my music, home photos, movies and Giants games. I need to get another one and get back at it again - possibly this summer?
I bought a lifetime Plex Pass as well so I could use it as a server. Now all of my movies, Giants games, and home movies.
It's a great setup though. Really nice when one of my kids wanted to take a DVD to a friends house - I used to send discs and would not always get them back. I bought a few thumb drives and now whenever that happens I just put the title on a thumb drive for them.
Plex means they could also stream it, but my bandwidth isn't always good enough.
I did the same exact thing back in 2013. Converting the disks took quite a while doing it myself, but it got done, and now everything is available to me with a button press in Plex. Gotta love it. :)