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  • Ripping DVD/BD in Linux

    From Gamgee@954:200/1 to All on Sun Sep 7 18:45:49 2025
    Hello all,

    Recently I've wanted to start trying to rip my DVD/BluRay movie collection in order to be able to stream them from a home Plex server. I've had pretty limited success doing this in Linux so far...

    I've tried 'Handbrake' and it won't even find the title of the DVD disc that's in a drive. Was going to try 'MakeMKV' but it seems quite convoluted to get installed and the program hasn't been updated in like 15 years.

    Wondering if anyone has had good results doing this in Linux, and if so, what software did you use? Anything obvious that I'm missing here? Thanks for any help you can provide.
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  • From Mike Powell@954:895/54 to GAMGEE on Mon Sep 8 08:43:27 2025
    isk -- I can no longer play it on my "TV" DVD player, either.

    Wondering if anyone has had good results doing this in Linux, and if so, what software did you use? Anything obvious that I'm missing here? Thanks for any
    help you can provide.

    Assuming that you have no issues playing the disks on the PC, only thing I can figure is maybe Handbrake somehow installed while missing a dependency?


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    player.

    I have another set with that warning that ripped just fine.

    Only other times I have problems, it usually means a problem with the
    disk -- I can no longer play it on my "TV" DVD player, either.

    Wondering if anyone has had good results doing this in Linux, and if so, what software did you use? Anything obvious that I'm missing here? Thanks for any
    help you can provide.

    Assuming that you have no issues playing the disks on the PC, only thing I can figure is maybe Handbrake somehow installed while missing a dependency?


    * SLMR 2.1a * I'm a master of Kungfu, Tofu, Snafu...and plain foo.
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