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What tool should I use and what format should I save my movies as? I want to put my DVDs on my Win7 XBMC box. I've been playing around with handbrake, but at high settings it takes too long. I'm not too worried about filespace, I don't mind just saving the whole thing as an .iso if necessary, or even coping over the directory structure of the DVD. If its possible, lossless compression would however be ideal.
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I use Anydvd to remove protections/warnings/forced content and DVDShrink if I don't want menus (Anydvd if I do).
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The MakeMKV tool will extract an uncompressed version of the DVD and store it in an mkv container, its quick and pretty painless to use.
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I rip them as an uncompressed iso file. Takes more space but results in perfect picture quality.
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Does saving with MakeMKV preserve menus? I assume saving as an uncompressed .iso would, but does XBMC handle those with menus and everything? (At work, so can't try it right now)
Also is there any such thing as lossless compression for DVDs? similar to FLAC for audio perhaps?
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No.
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If you want menus, you should save the dvd as an .iso file, MakeMKV if you don't.
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If I understand that correctly, .iso preserves the menus but xbmc can't play them? Is there a format that preserves menus and is handled by xbmc? Sounds like lossless video is still a great white buffalo ;-)
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XBMC can handle iso format perfectly (menus, subtitle tracks, audio tracks... everything)
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2010-06-25, 02:49
(This post was last modified: 2010-06-25, 02:51 by MrDowntempo.)
Forgive my ignorance, but what are stacking extensions? Also MAC the ripper would be a no go for me. I only have linux and windows boxes. Still saving as .iso shouldn't present a challenge unless I have to do something special to decrypt them. I don't don I?
