Ripping DVDs / Blu Rays

[Jeff Gaines]

I have managed to be reasonably successful with this under Windows with
AnyDVD and HandBrake working together to produce good quality and
reasonable size - thanks to all the advice given in this group! Problem is
AnyDVD will stop working in a couple of weeks and it is very expensive
since it's subscription only like so much s/w nowadays.

Is here a Linux solution for this, I know HandBrake is available but what
about a free equivalent of AnyDVD?

I keep loading Linux and running back to Windows, if I could get something
like this working it might encourage me to spend a bit longer in Linux.

Ubuntu MATE is my goto Linux distro so I would probably stick to that
unless there are good reasons to use something else?

[Gordon]

Post by Jeff Gaines
I have managed to be reasonably successful with this under Windows with
AnyDVD and HandBrake working together to produce good quality and
reasonable size - thanks to all the advice given in this group! Problem is
AnyDVD will stop working in a couple of weeks and it is very expensive
since it's subscription only like so much s/w nowadays.
Is here a Linux solution for this, I know HandBrake is available but what
about a free equivalent of AnyDVD?

https://handbrake.fr/docs/en/1.7.0/workflow/open-video-source.html

https://www.howtogeek.com/240487/how-to-play-dvds-and-blu-rays-on-linux/


Handbrake will rip the DVD provided that the libdvdcss2 library is
installed.

Point the DVD to the source on Handbrake and select the titles.

I see you use Ubuntu so the instructions for ppa to get MakeMKV should work.
Note the article is somewhat old (8 years ago) so you mileage may vary.

Post by Jeff Gaines
I keep loading Linux and running back to Windows, if I could get something
like this working it might encourage me to spend a bit longer in Linux.
Ubuntu MATE is my goto Linux distro so I would probably stick to that
unless there are good reasons to use something else?

[Jeff Gaines]

Post by Gordon
I see you use Ubuntu so the instructions for ppa to get MakeMKV should work.
Note the article is somewhat old (8 years ago) so you mileage may vary.

Many thanks Gordon :-)

Ubuntu is on (yippee Ventoy yet again!) but I can't see my main Windows PC
in its file manager "Caja". When I Google for that all I can find is posts
saying Caja won't connect to Windows machines. I wonder if there is a
better file manager or different distro that connects to Windows out of
the box...