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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Why are you still using DVD Decrypter? It's been abandoned since 2005. (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by WindowlessBasement@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Over the last couple weeks there's been a few threads of people insisting on using DVD Decrypter. I was wondering why are people still using it? Datahoarding tends to attract relatively technical people, so there must be some reason to keep using software that hasn't been updated since Windows XP was modern.

MakeMKV seems like the better option in every use case except full backups. However a full DVD image can be made with any imaging software or even just dd. Any player that can handle the DVD menus from an ISO is going to be able to decrypt during playback.

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[–] IForgotThePassIUsed@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use it to rip everything into one big vob then feed the vob through handbrake and use hardware accelerated encoding using my 3080ti to encode the movie in ~3 mins

works great for Movies but TV shows are much more complicated.

[–] WindowlessBasement@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

How is that different than feeding one big MKV into handbrake?