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Well, I've decided to have a clear-out and I'm looking to finally digitise my collection. As I've not done this before, I was looking for suggestions for the best way to go about doing it so as to save me any headaches.

I don't own a NAS system, so will probably be looking to put it straight on to a new hard-drive for now.

For a collection of say around 200 titles, what hard-drive space would I be looking for?

Is there any particular (free) software people can recommend?

What size compression and format would be considered best?

I like the idea of having whole ISOs of the disc, but I'm not sure about the practicality of it.

Any comments are welcome. TIA
 
Go with a maximum of 9gb per DVD, it won't need that much, but a little bit of extra space never goes amiss really.

You could extract the main movie only and save it as a MPEG2 codec MKV without having to spend a while with it being reencoded to another format. Still quite a large file and misses out any extras on the disc.

ISO is easier. No compression on it, but keeps everything, menus, FBI warnings, all languages and subtitles...

Can't recommend any software as I use AnyDVD HD for region free bluray playback and it handles DVD's nicely.
 
So, a decent 2TB should see me well?

What sizes are we looking at for your typical BR disc?
 
I'd go with 3TB for an ISO backup of 200 movies.

Average .mkv rip (100% quality) for a bluray can vary between 16-25GB. Obviously a whole disc image could be as much as 50GB.

I use MakeMKV to rip out the main titles and trim the languages that I don't need.
 
Nix said:
So, a decent 2TB should see me well?
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ideally you'll want another drive for a backup. ripping 200 disks is going to take some time and effort so the cost of another drive is peanuts compared to the consequences of losing it all.

edit: like EVH above, i recommend using makemkv to rip just the titles you want and strip out unwanted audio/subtitles. it's uncompressed so there is no loss of quality. for now, i'd just concentrate on ripping the disks. you can always compress these later using something like handbrake.
 
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Hmmm it sounds like you are getting rid / selling the media it's self after ripping?

If you are, would it not be easier just to download a lot of the films from one of "those" sites....as either way surely this would be illegal?
 
I've invested in a 1x3TB HDD for now. I was planning on mirroring in RAID, but ran in to complications due to my motherboard and current setup. Don't think I'll be making a NAS setup anytime soon, so the only real option is an external backup, although I'm very wary of external HDDs due to previous failures.

I've started ripping my DVDs to ISO, but I've noticed that DVD-Decrypter can't handle certain discs and I'm having to rip the disc into MKV using MakeMKV for a few select titles anyway.

A couple of discs had bad sectors and DVD-Decrypter just can't cope with them and aborts. Another disc, it managed to create an ISO image but the ISO refused to run (like it was corrupt data).

Very strange stuff.
 
I just got a cd holder, put all the DVDs in there, binned the boxes and it saved loads of storage space, time and money ripping the all. Now I rip them if I want to watching them or pop the DVD in the player.
 
I want to do the same thing and if you have the time then use the site music magpie. Really old dvd's will fetch about 25p so if you have a big collection, then its better than dumping them.
 
MookJong said:
Hmmm it sounds like you are getting rid / selling the media it's self after ripping?

If you are, would it not be easier just to download a lot of the films from one of "those" sites....as either way surely this would be illegal?
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But doing this won't give your ip address away on all those torrent trackers you'd need. Plus the quality you download is probably variable compared to what you could do yourself.
 
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