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submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) by Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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!

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[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 4 points 8 hours ago

Something to keep in mind is that Riplock is a thing. It will make DVD reads slower.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riplock

[-] Dariusmiles2123@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 hours ago

Interesting. I didn’t know about it.

It’s clever, but they should have used this money to make discs more durable instead😇

[-] notthebees@reddthat.com 1 points 56 minutes ago* (last edited 53 minutes ago)

You can get around it a few ways. Some are drive agnostic, some aren't. Also your drive might not be super affected by it. My dad's Sony AIO PC didn't have an issue ripping while a USB DVD drive I borrowed did.

Edit: the Sony AIO PC was also from 2012. It was running windows 7 when I did this.

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