Does anyone make their own digital backups of their movie collection? If so, What tools do you use?

Does anyone make their own digital backups of their movie collection? If so, What tools do you use?

>Why?
I have several dogs that have broken into my movie collection and chewed my movies up, and my wife is very clumsy with discs and will scratch them so I would like to make digital backups of Blu Rays that I personally own. What's the cheapest *legal* option that allows me to rip the films (mp4 format is plenty) for as backups I paid good money for.

Thanks.

Pic related, I no longer have John Wick.

If we're being technical, there isn't a legal way to do this. But as long as you don't distribute them, no one will care.

Yeah its entirely for my own personal uses. Any *good* ripping software that is either Cheap or Free?

>and my wife is very clumsy with discs
calling your xbox your waifu just isn't right senpai.
you should easily be able to back them up, to store them without needing a dozen multi TB HDDs is another matter altogether

poison ur dogs

in non shit countries you're allowed to make digital copies of stuff you've purchased.

>you should easily be able to back them up, to store them without needing a dozen multi TB HDDs is another matter altogether

I have a BD writer in my computer, I just lack the experience and knowledge of available tools to simply back them up, basic MP4 (H.264) would be a nice feature so that the filesize is merely a few GB.

whats the point?

torrent movie -> watch -> delete

am I missing something?

>torrent movie

I don't want to do that

MakeMKV

Kick your dog and slap your wife.

This, then shrink with Handbrake

Or ffmpeg, hang on op, i will give you a script i use when I get to my pc. It will batch process bluray rips.

Can't you just put them in a drawer or something?

Rip them with MakeMKV and then use this.
You can set it to auto execute with a cronjob and it will encode in the background on a dedicated machine.

You should use at least an i5 for this, Ryzen 7 is preferable. Anything less will take fucking forever.

Make a directory, put 3 directories in it, one working directory, one directory called Movies and another called Raw Files. Or change this to whatever you want.

#!/bin/bash
cd /DIRECTORY YOUR FILES ARE IN/
PIDFILE=/DIRECTORY YOU WANT THE TEMP PID FILE TO BE MADE IN/
if [ -f $PIDFILE ]
then
PID=$(cat $PIDFILE)
ps -p $PID > /dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
then
echo "Process already running"
exit 1
else
## Process not found assume not running
echo $$ > $PIDFILE
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "Could not create PID file"
exit 1
fi
fi
else
echo $$ > $PIDFILE
if [ $? -ne 0 ]
then
echo "Could not create PID file"
exit 1
fi
fi
for i in *.*;
do ffmpeg -i "$i" -c:v libx264 -c:s copy -preset veryslow -crf 18 "../Movies/${i%.*}".mkv;
mv "$i" ../Raw\ Files/;
done
rm $PIDFILE

Have fun faggot.

Oh yea, I forgot, you need to declare the PIDFILE name too, so that part would look like this.

PIDFILE=/DIRECTORY YOU WANT THE TEMP PID FILE TO BE MADE IN/ENCODE.pid

Something like that.

Upload everything to a Plex server and throw the physical copies away.

>using obsolete shell scripts instead of the greatest scripting language, Perl.

You do it faggot, it works, I can't be fucked to rewrite it.

handbrake always fucking fails or ends up corrupted.
i tried a dozen other programs and it's always the same, what the fuck?

*Cough*