

Have been converting our massive collection very SLOWLY over the last couple of years using using Handbrake + VLC.

I'll keep ripping video content off physical disks until the day I die, I guess. You'd think Hollywood would've learned from the music industry that if you just let people legally pay for non-DRM media, and make the process easy and convenient (certainly more convenient than sailing the seven seas or ripping discs), people will pay.īut whatever. In the end, I'm mystified it's still so hard to buy older movies so I can watch them on my networked devices. TV shows are a different beast-you have to rip in each episode, transcode them in a batch, edit the metadata in a batch, then ideally stick the episodes into a folder for each season so Jellyfin picks them up correctly.

Thus, I'm writing a fresh guide to how I rip DVDs and Blu-Ray discs into my Mac, then transcode them with Handbrake. And in many cases, older movies can only be found as used and/or pirated DVDs on eBay! In a surprising twist of fate, we went from a somewhat more centralized online media situation back then (basically, Netflix) to a hellscape of dozens of streaming services today. Heck, back then I didn't write everything as a 'blog post'-that was labeled as an 'article' :P How to Rip Blu-ray with Handbrake » #'s been more than a decade since I wrote Ripping Movies from Blu-Ray, HD-DVD and DVD, Getting them onto Apple TV, iPad, iPhone, etc.
