Hi everyone!

I have around 200 DVD (with movies) that I’d want to backup in order to save them from rotting or physical media disappearance.

My most powerful computer with a DVD drive is a 2012 MacBook Pro upgraded to 16gb of Ram with an SSD running Fedora 42.

If possible, I’d want to keep all the bonuses of the movies, but I could also just backup the movies if keeping the whole disc is too difficult.

My goal would be to keep the original quality.

Also 6-7 discs are already skipping scenes even if the disc shows no damage.

I’ve bought some of these discs 20 years ago with my teenager pocket money so I wouldn’t want to lose them.

Thanks for the help.

As I own these discs and nothing would be illegal in my country, I thought it would be better to post here instead of the piracy community.

Edit: I guess I’ll use Make MKV Beta as it seems to work well and VLC can open the MKV files. Thanks for your help!

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
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    19 hours ago

    I’m way too lazy for such an endeavor… so what I would do instead is

    • buy a DVD player on a standard interface (right now seems to be USB-C) that seems to cost (wow… seriously that cheap?!) about the price of a lunch, so 30 EUR.
    • download RIPs from a Torrent tracker

    once that’s done then I would only do the additional content of a per-need basis which I would then upload back to a Website that cares about this kind of content, potentially the Internet Archive.