EDIT: Thank you so much everyone! There’s so much help for me here, and I’ll recommend anyone with similar question as me to read the comments
Basically title.
I have the DVDs and I have the hardware to burn them to my PC.
But the file size is too much. What software would be ideal to get the best quality with the lowest file size?
I’m going for file sizes per movie at around 2-3gb max.
Handbrake would be the easiest. For commercial DVDs, you just need to add
libdvdcss-2.dllin your Handbrake install directory and it will bypass the copy protection.For the container I’d suggest going with MKV. For the video codec you can go with x265 (HEVC) with a CRF/RF of 22, which should give you a good balance between quality and size. For the audio you can copy it as-is.
Would that work for Blu-ray? I’m guessing not.
You’ll need some other libraries (
libaacs,libbdplus) to be added to your Handbrake install directory to strip AACS but yeah it’s doable.https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=176924
Thank you!
Glad I could help :)
i use makeMKV rip the full Blu-ray file, then I use handbrake to compress it.