This was a great tutorial, thanks. I just installed Plex in my desktop and was staring at my collection of DVDs and Blu Rays, wondering how I was going to get them from here to there. My desktop has a 14TB HDD so storage space won't be a problem. It also has an optical drive so I'm all set. My desktop is a gaming computer so it is not very power efficient so I will eventually build a Plex/NAS server with 4TB of storage in a RAID 2 setup that can be left on 24/7 without eating me out of house and home in electrical bills.
There are tradeoff's with GPU vs CPU encoding. While GPU encoding is typically faster, its also possible you get more artefacts and larger files sizes. CPU encoding while it takes longer, you have more options with this method if you can stand the longer encode times. When it comes to Bluray, unfortunately CPU encoding is way too long (up to a couple days in depending on your CPU) vs a couple hours with GPU.
BETWEEN MAKEMKV & HANDBRAKE, I CAN NEVER BURN THE ORIGINAL PHYSICAL DVD MENU. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO BURN THE DVD MENUS? I LOVE SEEING THE DVD MENUS LOAD UP. THANKS FOR THIS TUTORIAL. SUPER HELPFUL!
thanks!! question, plz: what if the GPU doesn't appear on Handbrake's Settings? Just H264 or H265-stuff, but nothing suggesting a GPU. ughh...or there a System Setting that would allow that? MS-W10. tanx...
Just a quick question as I am new to the whole ripping DVD files to PC. I noticed when you are done ripping/coping the files basically taking the files/contents off the DVD and coping them to your PC, it turns into a video file. my question is, what about the menus? like, I want to be able to watch DVD's exactly as they are with the selectable menu options like it is on the DVD on my PC just so I ain't having to use the Disks to watch the features. call it Lazy if you will, like, yeah even if it Lazy, it an be an annoying irritating pain in the backside having to constantly get up off yer sofa n grab the DVD case, take the disk out, put it in the machine, then take the disk back out, put it in back in its case, then get back up to go to yer DVD collection then rummage threw and repeat etc. like I just think the idea of having the whole DVD with its contents and menus stored on a PC and or portable hard drives so you can just open up whichever movie folder, choose whatever you DVD movie you want to watch and click play without the constant need to be faffing about constantly exchanging between disks, I think just having it on PC is so much more easier and convenient. So yeah, when you rip a DVD, will you still have the DVD selectable menu options on the video? that's all I really want to know.
How do people get it down to 1-2 gb this only got a movie down to 7. 7 is good but even when I view the 1-2 gb ones the quality is still great. Thanks for this guide though very cool and very helpful.
thank you! i think it really comes down to your settings you use for transcoding in handbrake. in the last i’ve used tdarr and had similar results to you where i was only cutting down a gig or so where others had great results. i think it’d all dependent on your media and options
@@BarmineTech I should have mentioned it's blu rays i'm transcoding. Thanks for the fast reply. I'm okay with this method, it's just gonna take a really long time to convert 500+ Blu Rays.
Good job, thanks for the refresher. I have been using this method for a few years now, and I burned my entire DVD collection of 100+ DVDs to an external hard drive. I don't have a graphics card (basic system) or a surround system, do you have any thoughts on using the "FAST" options in Handbrake? Oh, and I donated my entire DVD collection to the local library.
Amazing tutorial! I just started the MakeMKV download on my MacBook Pro with M1 Pro Chip. It is saying the application download is estimated at 1 hour and 15 minutes and going up.. this concerns me! How long should I expect for this download to take? And how can I make my downloads go faster? Should I do this project on my 2021 iMac? I am digitizing my family videos and my dad's old dvd's which equates to over 75 files. I am thinking I need to figure out a way to make the process go a little faster and more efficient.. do you have any suggestions? Thanks Barmine Tech!
@@BarmineTech No, he has a valid question. I think what he meant is that you can do everything directly through Handbrake. Before checking your video in search of more tips, i just did that: Simply found the DVD through HB and was choosing the encoding options. Tried to finish the process and resulted in a DVD of 4-5gbs to a 1.5gb mp4. No complications around it. Could you elaborate if using the Makemkv process before HB can actually improve or make a difference to the output quality? As it is, seems like we can simply skip this step. Wachu think? - EDIT: I just remembered that Handbrake will not rip Oficial DVDs with a lock. If thats the case I could understand using Makemkv before to rip the locked files, and then finishing with Handbrake.
@@BarmineTechgreat tutorial! Thanks for clarifying why you need both software. I have a bunch of dvds I found in the attic that I want to convert digitally
Here's my issue: If I rip a DVD or BluRay, will that damage the physical disc at all? Because, I don't want to put the disc in after I ripped it to no longer work on my disc player.
i’m am not aware of this causing any damage to the disk. this is a orettt standard method of just copying the files off the disk to a digital storage on the computer
Ripping a DVD doesn't change the DVD at all, you're fine. I know "rip" sounds destructive but it is really just reading the DVD contents and saving them locally.
Finally, a video that explains this in an easy to understand manner! Thanks!
Solid video, super straight forward! I plan to rip all my parent's dvds so they can have a digital copy to access from their various devices.
This is a great video, thanks! I haven't done this process in about 15 years so it was a nice refresher.
This was a great tutorial, thanks. I just installed Plex in my desktop and was staring at my collection of DVDs and Blu Rays, wondering how I was going to get them from here to there. My desktop has a 14TB HDD so storage space won't be a problem. It also has an optical drive so I'm all set. My desktop is a gaming computer so it is not very power efficient so I will eventually build a Plex/NAS server with 4TB of storage in a RAID 2 setup that can be left on 24/7 without eating me out of house and home in electrical bills.
great job, clear and two the point. You answered my question about using the two applications together And transcoding on GPU.
great video, super straight forward with no fluff. thank you
4:50 is actually the start of how to use the software for those short on time, A.D.D or just need the direct info and not the extraneous info
Thank you so much this really helped with ripping my family home DVDs!!! 👍
Thanks for the straightforward content.
There are tradeoff's with GPU vs CPU encoding. While GPU encoding is typically faster, its also possible you get more artefacts and larger files sizes. CPU encoding while it takes longer, you have more options with this method if you can stand the longer encode times. When it comes to Bluray, unfortunately CPU encoding is way too long (up to a couple days in depending on your CPU) vs a couple hours with GPU.
BETWEEN MAKEMKV & HANDBRAKE, I CAN NEVER BURN THE ORIGINAL PHYSICAL DVD MENU. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO BURN THE DVD MENUS?
I LOVE SEEING THE DVD MENUS LOAD UP. THANKS FOR THIS TUTORIAL. SUPER HELPFUL!
Currently going through this myself, want the menus like I'm running an ISO file. Let me know if you ever get an answer to this, friend
Make an .iso file, mount it, and play it with something like VLC.
Does this same process work with blue ray or just with dvds?
Nice video, man, helpful. You nerded out a bit on your build but whatever, its cool, you're supposed to.
Thank you!! This is GOLD!
thanks man!
thanks!! question, plz: what if the GPU doesn't appear on Handbrake's Settings? Just H264 or H265-stuff, but nothing suggesting a GPU. ughh...or there a System Setting that would allow that? MS-W10. tanx...
Just a quick question as I am new to the whole ripping DVD files to PC. I noticed when you are done ripping/coping the files basically taking the files/contents off the DVD and coping them to your PC, it turns into a video file. my question is, what about the menus? like, I want to be able to watch DVD's exactly as they are with the selectable menu options like it is on the DVD on my PC just so I ain't having to use the Disks to watch the features. call it Lazy if you will, like, yeah even if it Lazy, it an be an annoying irritating pain in the backside having to constantly get up off yer sofa n grab the DVD case, take the disk out, put it in the machine, then take the disk back out, put it in back in its case, then get back up to go to yer DVD collection then rummage threw and repeat etc. like I just think the idea of having the whole DVD with its contents and menus stored on a PC and or portable hard drives so you can just open up whichever movie folder, choose whatever you DVD movie you want to watch and click play without the constant need to be faffing about constantly exchanging between disks, I think just having it on PC is so much more easier and convenient.
So yeah, when you rip a DVD, will you still have the DVD selectable menu options on the video? that's all I really want to know.
How do people get it down to 1-2 gb this only got a movie down to 7. 7 is good but even when I view the 1-2 gb ones the quality is still great.
Thanks for this guide though very cool and very helpful.
thank you! i think it really comes down to your settings you use for transcoding in handbrake. in the last i’ve used tdarr and had similar results to you where i was only cutting down a gig or so where others had great results. i think it’d all dependent on your media and options
@@BarmineTech I should have mentioned it's blu rays i'm transcoding. Thanks for the fast reply. I'm okay with this method, it's just gonna take a really long time to convert 500+ Blu Rays.
@@BarmineTech I did h265 the video file turned out to be less than h264. Problem solved!
Thank you so much!
Excellent!
Thank you!!
Great stuff man
Thanks so much for this!
does the transcoding better up the quality of the video?
It does the opposite. Skip the handbrake part if you don't want to degrade the video quality.
@@2025_Is_Going_To_Be_Great turning it into an mp4 format, decrases the size of it. for example from 4 gig to 1.7 gig
What is the purpose of using MKV 1st? Can't you just use handbrake to get the video files? Thanks.
no, Handbrake can not, because of the copy saftey on the cd
Great video 💯💯💯
Good job, thanks for the refresher. I have been using this method for a few years now, and I burned my entire DVD collection of
100+ DVDs to an external hard drive. I don't have a graphics card (basic system) or a surround system, do you have any thoughts on using the "FAST" options in Handbrake? Oh, and I donated my entire DVD collection to the local library.
You should have kept those DVDs for backup copies. If your hard drive fails, you will have to start over.
Good video! :)
Any reason you just dont let Plex transcode in real time?
I like this guy
I have an Nvidia graphics card, but don't have the option for NVEnc
thanks man
Can’t you just rip dvds and put them on a USB flash drive to insert on your TV instead of all of the trouble of a plex server and all that?
it your tv supports that it should be fine
just downloaded makemkv 9/15/24 and the application crashes at launch every time
i just did a fresh install and it works fine. did you add a registration key that is free on their forums? if not the program will not work
@@BarmineTech i crashes before i can even add it
restarted my machine and then was able to get it to take the key
Bruh, your dad let you use the computer, ask him if he'll let you use his razor, too, brah.
Amazing tutorial! I just started the MakeMKV download on my MacBook Pro with M1 Pro Chip. It is saying the application download is estimated at 1 hour and 15 minutes and going up.. this concerns me! How long should I expect for this download to take? And how can I make my downloads go faster? Should I do this project on my 2021 iMac?
I am digitizing my family videos and my dad's old dvd's which equates to over 75 files. I am thinking I need to figure out a way to make the process go a little faster and more efficient.. do you have any suggestions?
Thanks Barmine Tech!
I don't get the advantage of makemkv. Why not just use handbrake?
make mkv is the program that actually gets the video files off the dvd. handbrake is to encode them to a different format
@@BarmineTech No, he has a valid question.
I think what he meant is that you can do everything directly through Handbrake.
Before checking your video in search of more tips, i just did that: Simply found the DVD through HB and was choosing the encoding options.
Tried to finish the process and resulted in a DVD of 4-5gbs to a 1.5gb mp4. No complications around it.
Could you elaborate if using the Makemkv process before HB can actually improve or make a difference to the output quality? As it is, seems like we can simply skip this step.
Wachu think?
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EDIT:
I just remembered that Handbrake will not rip Oficial DVDs with a lock.
If thats the case I could understand using Makemkv before to rip the locked files, and then finishing with Handbrake.
@@BarmineTechgreat tutorial! Thanks for clarifying why you need both software. I have a bunch of dvds I found in the attic that I want to convert digitally
I ran into an issue where handbrake don't rip Blu-ray....but makemkv does...I think handbrake only rips dvds and unlocked bluray discs
Here's my issue:
If I rip a DVD or BluRay, will that damage the physical disc at all?
Because, I don't want to put the disc in after I ripped it to no longer work on my disc player.
i’m am not aware of this causing any damage to the disk. this is a orettt standard method of just copying the files off the disk to a digital storage on the computer
Ripping a DVD doesn't change the DVD at all, you're fine. I know "rip" sounds destructive but it is really just reading the DVD contents and saving them locally.
Using your graphics card won't yield as high quality video as using your CPU
Source?