The best possible quality to rip to either .ISO, saving the entire DVD as an image or rip and remux, placing the video into another container. Both will give you 1:1 quality of the original.
MakeMKV can do both of these and is free.
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The best possible quality to rip to either .ISO, saving the entire DVD as an image or rip and remux, placing the video into another container. Both will give you 1:1 quality of the original.
MakeMKV can do both of these and is free.
Compressing SD DVD's to 265 is a terrible suggestion. 265 should only be used for high def content, ideally 4K media.
MakeMKV. Don't re-encode them.
AnyDVD to a folder or iso. Then you preserve all the menus and extras.
please uninstall handbrake and forget it exists
Dvd Decrypter is worth using. Old but decent
As others have said MakeMKV and create a disc ISO it’s a full dump of the disc as is.
Use make MKV to compress them
DVD backup (Linux utility) for ripping the dvd into original VOB files and ffmpeg with appropriate switches (input: -i "concat:VTS_01_0.IFO:VTS_01_0.BUP:VTS_01_1.VOB:(etc)") for making it into an .mkv file with either the original codec (-c copy) or hevc (also -map 0 for all audio/video/subtitle tracks to be saved)
MakeMKV is the best option. It rips it directly off the disc exactly like it was put on the disc.