On 13 Sep 2025 at 03:21p, Arelor pondered and said...
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.
I'm having some very good results with Freemake. I'm doing some copying right now as we speak.
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