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I'm well aware that I can rip most Blu-rays with MakeMKV and then convert to mp4 with Handbrake; however, the former just rips everything raw from the disk so the file size is humongous and the conversion via Handbrake for just a single file is terribly long and puts a lot of strain on my computer.

I've heard that EaseFab LosslessCopy is decent, but they only have a Windows and a Mac version, and I'm unsure how well it'd run under Wine.

I am willing to pay for it, but only as long as it's not a subscription thing. Has to be a one-time payment.

Does anyone know any decent Blu-ray ripping software that fits these conditions and run well on Linux? Specifically, it would be either Pop!_OS or Linux Mint. (I'm still using Windows because I want to figure out some software alternatives before I do so I'm not caught with my pants down, so to speak.)

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I apologize. As grateful as I am that you took the time to write all this out, I must admit I am still very much a Linux noob and so all this is way beyond my abilities. :/

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 year ago

You copy that whole thing into a terminal after you have both makeMKV and Handbrake installed, then press enter

[-] IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago

While in this case it is the solution (and Kata1yst really seems to know what they're talking about), I feel like there's a need to remind people every now and then to be careful with shell scripts. There's loads of instructions on the internet where they suggest just to pull random script from the internet and pass it trough as is to run with root privileges. When you do something like 'curl https://stackoverflow.....|bash -' it's quite literally the same than letting a random guy from the street to your computer and let them do whatever they want with it.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's totally fair. My prior comment was about that exact script, which you and I can both see isn't malicious, but OP can't since they don't know how to read it yet.

It's good to point this out. No matter how often reminders are written people still will go and download and run random programs without vetting them. Frankly, I blame how software is distributed for Windows for this general acceptance of blind faith in other peoples' code without a trusted third party like e.g. the Debian maintainers validating that it works as intended.

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