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After finding out recently that one of my X-Files blu-ray discs, purchased last Black Friday (and unopened until now), had a crack in it, starting from the middle hub and extending far enough to reach the recording surface, and render the disc unplayable, I decided I should rip all my discs to hard drives.
While drive storage is cheap these days, 40+GB for a single disc is rather excessive, especially considering I mostly have TV series that span multiple discs each.
I know some of you have mentioned compressing HD video before, and also converting full-disc images into single files for individual episodes.
I already have a bunch of discs ripped to ISO, but stripped of the original copy protection. Here's my question: What tool(s) can I use to convert episodes into individual files, and what settings are typical for preserving decent audio/video quality at full 1080p/5.1?
Perhaps more importantly - are these tools you'd actually vouch for, and would blindly trust so you don't have to verify each and every conversion? This is a sticking point for me, as I have (from years ago) a bunch of DVD rips converted to AVI/MP4 that, it turns out, have audio and video slowly drifting out of sync with each other over time. I'd hate to go through that again with my blu-ray discs.
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I use various Prof. Media modules from Leawo Software. Check out their offerings to see if any meet your needs.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him." - James D. Miles
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I am surprised people actually buy physical Blue-Ray.
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Every time I see updates to the list of movies offered by streaming services, I read the "Movies removed" part, and most times say to myself: "That movie I still have available, and that one, and that one ... Luckily, they are available in my bookshelf!"
I should mention that for most movies I watch, "spoilers" are irrelevant: If a movie isn't wort watching a second time (and a third...), even when you know the story, it isn't worth the time for watching it the first time. My favorite movies are among my best friends 
Actually, I have had a similar problem with books: When I want to buy, as a gift to a friend, a copy of one of my favorite books, I frequently am told in the bookstore that the book hasn't been in print for several years. (Also, this can be a problem if a friend has borrowed my copy and doesn't return it, and I want to buy a replacement copy for myself rather than ruining the friendship.) This is a much bigger problem in a small language community: In the English speaking world, there are so many potential buyers that you can afford to keep a book in print for ages. For Norwegian language books that might sell a dozen copies a year after the third one, it is not economically feasible to keep all books in print (or in stock). So for books that are so good that I am 100% sure that I will want to give to somebody, I rush to buy two or three extra copies while they are available.
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If you're suggesting streaming as the alternative - then that's a non-starter for my 5mbps connection. To me, if something's worth viewing in 1080p/5.1, then I just don't have the bandwidth for it.
And as others have mentioned, legitimate streaming services have a real problem with things "disappearing" over time.
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Video.NET looks promising enough, and the price is right. It's too bad it won't let me choose multiple chapters at a time, but I can certainly live with that if it produces good results. I'll have a look at your other suggestion too.
Thanks!
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I've used dvdfab (www.dvdfab.cn) for removing copy protection and ripping DVDs for many years. I understand that they also have modules for blu-ray as well.
The program isn't cheap, but it is regularly updated to support the latest encryption, and it can handle every DVD that i've thrown at it.
Ad astra - both ways!
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Thanks. The discs have already been ripped to ISOs, so I don't need to pay a premium for that. Considering the number of free options that exist for re-encoding...I'll keep it in mind, but right now it's probably at the bottom of my list of things to try.
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The world was much more simpler in the good ol' days.
No C#, no javascript (?), full stack doohickey, no mobile development, , no gazillion weird SDK/Toolkits ...
I'd rather be phishing!
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Is this[^] why you left for Canada
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Oh man. That makes me quesy just watching it. I hope the guy was OK but it looks like he was out cold.
It's just as bad in Canada[^].
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Apparently she needed some stitches to the knee and the arm in a sling. Could've been much worse though.
In Sweden we have moose as well, a cow with a calf is the worst animal you can encounter in Sweden. And we do have both wolves and bears.
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Yikes.
See, Australia is WAY safer!
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: Australia is WAY safer!
You've got murderous spiders, snakes, 'roos, fish, birds, and drop bears! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Yeah, but only the dropbears are really an issue.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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The late, great Pterry wrote: Rincewind shrugged. “I don’t mind putting my hand up to killing a few spiders,” he said. “But it was me or them. I mean some of those come at you at head height—”
“You changed history.”
“Oh, come on, a few spiders don’t make that much difference, some of them were using their webs as trampolines, it was a case of ‘boing’ and next moment—”
And we all know where he was talking about!
(And I just found a new reason to hate Edge: highlighting text...)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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No need to worry 'bout snakes, the spiders tend to eat them.
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"...Some of the sheep..."
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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For more funny details, read Bill Bryson: Down Under.
(Wikipedia says that in the US, the book is titled "In a Sunburned Country".)
The humour is typical Bryson, such as when he comments that an encounter with an alligator in the sumplands "can be an extremely irreversible experience".
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Damn that's going to leave a mark.
Everyone has a photographic memory; some just don't have film. Steven Wright
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I swear roos know what they're doing - this[^] too was no accident.
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