Slow But Steady

The past five days or so ever since I got my DVD set of Seikai no Monshou, and it's... been a trip. I wanted to rip the DVD so I can host a group anime viewing on my laptop, as I prefer being on it instead of the old desktop I had to fire up for that (laptop doesn't have a CD drive). I tried almost everything I could think of... except for Handbrake, as I discounted that till I actually read how to use it.

Many mistakes later and many hours wasted, I made... some progress. 6 hours to rip 6 episodes (well, one's still being ripped at the moment, but it's still an hour to do so), mainly because I wanted the highest quality for them when I host, and then another 6 hours for 6 episodes of the English dub... and that's not even thinking of the rest of the series, which I still need to rip from the other DVD.

Slow, but steady, all this is worth it for nothing but the best quality for a hidden gem of an anime.

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"mainly because I wanted the highest quality for them when I host"

If it is just ripping a DVD then why not leave it in the DVD format? Unless you are converting to lossless, or maybe remastering along the way, then there will be a loss in quality. With modern storage then a DVD is next to nothing. Most media players worth using will handle a DVD format file on your hard drive just fine.
 
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Then that would be a waste of space for simple storage/playback -- most lossless video formats take huge amounts of storage.

Something like https://www.dvdfab.cn/free.htm , will rip it and get rid of the various protections (usually down to even removing the no skipping the trailers/warnings stuff), maybe coupled with an old school thing like dvdshrink if you wanted to lose the extras or extra audio tracks (don't know if modern dvdfab free will do that for you).
 
@FAST6191 I actually did try DVDFab, didn't wanna rip the DVD (or at least, not the entire DVD) without me paying for it, for some reason. I liked HandBrake the most out of all the others I tried, anyways, because it does all what DVDFab can supposedly do (it just needs a certain file in the program folder to break copy protection, but that's piss easy to find if you google what to do), and I've been told MKV is preferable, because it keeps everything (audio, subtitles, video, and what have you) in one file.
 
@bodefuceta I'm using a bit of a hack job via Discord group DM and screenshare, lmao, but I think my Internet is good enough for that, TBH
 

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