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I thought I had heard that Handbrake doesn't decrypt discs? Almost all commercially-produced DVDs (and blu-rays) are encrypted, so you'd need something that can decrypt it while ripping.
Re: Ripping DVD/BD in Linux
By: Arelor to Gamgee on Sat Sep 13 2025 03:21 pm
For DVD, HandBrake does the trick more often than not. I find it suspicious that it does not work for you. Ensure you are using the la
I thought I had heard that Handbrake doesn't decrypt discs? Almost all commercially-produced DVDs (and blu-rays) are encrypted, so you'd need something that can decrypt it while ripping.
but i've definitely done both dvd and blu-ray with handbrake.. used this bad boy: https://www.amazon.com/External-Enclosure-Generation-Aluminum-NST-540S3-BK /dp/B 09SS74KCN
worked exceptional, and it's nice to not have to have a machine with the drive in it permanently, taking up sata ports ;)
I don't mind having an optical drive inside my PC, and I actually
somewhat prefer that. If I used an external optical drive, then every time I'd want to rip a disc, I'd have to go get it and plug it in, and then when I'm done, unplug it and put it away. And my PC has plenty of SATA ports.. I only have one other drive using a SATA port, which is a HDD (and my boot drive is an m.2 SSD, which uses its own port).
It actually seems odd to me that it's difficult to find a new PC case these days with exposed 5.25" drive bays, or even 3.5" drive bays. In addition to an optical drive, I usually like to have an internal card reader as well. I have several devices that use an SD card for storage, and I've found it useful to be able to have an internal card reader for those in my PC and not need yet another external thing to plug/unplug
when I need to use it.
In the past, I've had smartphones that had a micro-SD slot, and I'd use a micro-SD to SD adapter to use in my PC's card reader to copy files
to/from the micro-SD card for my phone. However, many smartphones these days don't have a micro-SD slot anymore, which I think is a bummer.. My
It actually seems odd to me that it's difficult to find a new PC case
these days with exposed 5.25" drive bays, or even 3.5" drive bays. In
amazon has lots of them.. from Antec for example. i think they just keep manufacturing the same old designs.
might not work if you have to use a
giant cooling solution to keep a 12 core cpu happy though. for a while i
wanted to get a rackmount case, but it's a bit impractical for a desk unless you build the rack above or below it (or have lots of other gear that needs to go there too).
In the past, I've had smartphones that had a micro-SD slot, and I'd use a
micro-SD to SD adapter to use in my PC's card reader to copy files
to/from the micro-SD card for my phone. However, many smartphones these
days don't have a micro-SD slot anymore, which I think is a bummer.. My
for now, with the right version of android, you could use Termux and start an sshd from the prompt.. then connect over the network to your phone with sftp. i didn't catch if you were a linux user, but jmtpfs works pretty nice too if you just plug in the phone (usb again.. yeah)
since we're on the topic of optical media, i thought this was pretty interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzpp_Xr3SQ
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I thought I had heard that Handbrake doesn't decrypt discs? Almost all commercially-produced DVDs (and blu-rays) are encrypted, so you'd need something that can decrypt it while ripping.
Nightfox
I thought I had heard that Handbrake doesn't decrypt discs? Almost all
commercially-produced DVDs (and blu-rays) are encrypted, so you'd need
something that can decrypt it while ripping.
I encode commercial DVDs with HandBrake quite often, it definitively works. I think they library for DVD decryption is optional, though.
I encode commercial DVDs with HandBrake quite often, it definitively works. I think they library for DVD decryption is optional, though.
You encode discs, as in you create and burn commercial DVDs? I was talking about decryping.
Re: Ripping DVD/BD in Linux
By: Gamgee to All on Sun Sep 07 2025 06:43 pm
Hello all,
Recently I've wanted to start trying to rip my DVD/BluRay movie collect in order to be able to stream them from a home Plex server. I've had p limited success doing this in Linux so far...
I've tried 'Handbrake' and it won't even find the title of the DVD disc that's in a drive. Was going to try 'MakeMKV' but it seems quite convo to get installed and the program hasn't been updated in like 15 years.
Wondering if anyone has had good results doing this in Linux, and if so what software did you use? Anything obvious that I'm missing here? Th for any help you can provide.
For DVD, HandBrake does the trick more often than not. I find it suspicious that it does not work for you. Ensure you are using the
latest version. The builds distributed by distribution's package
managers are often not well built, so you might want to use something straight from their download site.
I can confirm the flakiness of HandBrake, both in windows and linux. Many times it just does not find the titles. I can run the same disk on the same computer with vlc and it finds it and can copy them.
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