Best way to copy DVD/BD to a home Library

[Krisruds]

Hei

This is my first post here so please don`t chop my head off.
I have been true some of the posts here, but it so many and i diden`t really find the answer of the question i was after.

Im looking for the best way to copy my 700 DVD library over to my computer, i have 16TB disk in RAID 1 ready for it. (will buy more if needed)
I have some priorities in what im after.

1: Good quality ofc, sound and picture. DTS, Dolby. (and maybe be able to switch between stereo, dts, dolby, but not that important)
2: That its ONE file
3: That i can have the original SUB`s with the rip, (and maybe be able to change it in the movie)
4: And that the rip is not larger then the actual movie
5: The Rip is readable in most streamers. (AVI,MKV etc etc.)

And if its possible, to have the DVD menu. But thats not crazy important.


Best regards
Kristian

[Baldrick]

Rip to an ISO with anydvdhd and you can keep everything. But it's not that good for streaming, you need a good media player that supports dvd iso.

[Krisruds]

I have tried HandBrake now, its quit good. Ripping the DVD over to MKV.
Almost all streamers are reading MKV atm, so thats fine.

I did get one sub at least. Gona try see the movie on my WD-Live now, to see that i get the sub there to.
The only thing really missing is the DVD menu.

But please tell me if theres a better way to do this. I want the same standard on all my Rips.

[Krisruds]

Bump

[lowellriggsiam]

I agree with handbrake. The alternative would be makemkv.

[Constant Gardener]

Depends how much time and effort you want to put into the endeavour. Personally I favor ISOs, played by a computer; rip half a dozen a night, and you'll be done your 700 discs by summer. I use DVD Decrypter for most, DVDFab HD Decrypter or DVDFab Passkey for the rest.

[Krisruds]

With Handbreak you can make .mkv and .mp4. What is the best format and whats the difference with them?

Both are containers as far as i can see?!?

The ONE huge dumb thing about .mkv that i can find is that i cant "store" them in Win Media Center bc i cant play them there.
It would be very nice to ha a format that is supported by a media center.

[neomaine]

Rip to an ISO with anydvdhd and you can keep everything. But it's not that good for streaming, you need a good media player that supports dvd iso.

Pretty sure the WDTV Live/Plus/Hub handles DVD ISOs now. http://www.wdtvlive.com/products/which

"Supports DVD Navigation"

Probably came with a later firmware. I'll have to give it a try this weekend.

[Krisruds]

And one more thing.

When i use Handbreak it tells me that it dont support the DVD im trying to copy.


Your Source may be copy protected, badly mastered or in a format which HandBreak does not support.

I realy like the way HandBreak are "ripping" the disk, bc i can chose witch sub and audio i want.
Is there something i can do so i can use HandBreak on all DVD`s

[lowellriggsiam]

If the DVD is copy protected you must first copy the dvd to your harddrive using a program such as dvddecrypter. You may be able to avoid it all together by using makemkv.

[neomaine]

dvddecrypter hasn't been updated in quite some time. You'll need to run something like anydvdhd or dvdfabdecrypter.

[Krisruds]

Probably came with a later firmware. I'll have to give it a try this weekend.

I dident get it to work.

[neomaine]

Probably came with a later firmware. I'll have to give it a try this weekend.

I dident get it to work.

Had one of my wife's work-out DVDs close by and created an ISO from imgburn. It came up and worked fine on my WDTV Live. I'll have to try a real movie disk and see what happens.

[litmus]

I have a related question-

I'm using Handbrake to covert DVDs to H264 for playback on a GoFlexTV set top box. I see the following results:

1. If I make a DVD ISO of an interlaced source in IMG Burn and play it on the GoFlex, I do not see the comb effect
2. If I take that same DVD source and make an MKV without any deinterlacing filter, combing is very evident in the playback
3. If I make the MKV with Decomb or Deinterlace filter on, picture is much better than (2) but I still see some combing

I'm not sure what the issue is here, is it: a) H264 does not correct preserve the interlacing information therefore it's not converted to progressive correctly in the player or b) The GoFlexTV only converts Interlace -> Progressive from DVD sources? If a), is there some way to compress the file but preserve the interlacing?