I have a DVD collection I want on my Jellyfin library. What software should I use for compressing these DVD files to sizes matching what you find at sea?

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.

Vivian ,

This guide answers the question of how to copy dvd on mac. Hope it can help.

mp3 ,
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Handbrake would be the easiest. For commercial DVDs, you just need to add libdvdcss-2.dll in 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.

Banzai51 ,
@Banzai51@midwest.social avatar

Would that work for Blu-ray? I'm guessing not.

pelletbucket ,
@pelletbucket@lemm.ee avatar

i use makeMKV rip the full Blu-ray file, then I use handbrake to compress it.

user224 ,
@user224@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Perhaps Handbrake.

But if you do care about the quality, then you should just download those movies in higher quality than DVD. Like this you're just getting 480p/576p with visible compression artifacts at the same file size.

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