Digitizing my DVD collection for personal use

By shanahanw, 9 July, 2023

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Hi,
I want to digitize my DVD collection so that I can take it with me when I travel on an external hard drive instead of bringing DVDs everywhere. Is there an app that is accessible that will let me do this? I have a M1 MacBook Air with 8GB of ram and 256GB storage.

Hope someone can help,
Shannon

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By Rasgueo on Monday, July 10, 2023 - 00:28

I'm also interested in the same. Otherwise if you have a Windows computer laying around it is pretty easy to do it natively.

By Andy Lane on Monday, July 10, 2023 - 17:14

I hope it’s still just as accessible as it was years ago but Handbrake was always perfectly usable with VO. It’s very customisable too. Good luck.

By Cankut DeÄŸerli on Monday, July 10, 2023 - 19:48

As I know, Handbrake is accessible but DVDs have DRM protection and handbrake can not breakthrough the DRM. Any suggestion?

By Matthew on Monday, July 10, 2023 - 20:42

The program makemkv works to get a drm free mkv file of a dvd, and handhrake can be used to convert it down if the file size of the mkv is too big; usually around 7-9 gb for a dvd, 30-40gb for a blu-ray.
The GUI for makeMKV didn't used to be accessible, but I'm pretty sure there have been improvements. If not, the command line version still exists and is accessible because it's a command line program, although less is able to be controled I think.

By Andy Lane on Monday, July 10, 2023 - 23:28

VLC also works to strip out the DRM, so that handbrake is able to do its stuff.

By Matthew on Tuesday, July 11, 2023 - 08:21

Yes it does do this.