Maybe the wrong place to ask, so sorry to the mods if thats the case.

I’ve a load of movies on DVD and wonder if its worth converting to mp4 and building a personal media centre to save loading each and every disc. I’ve tried to convert a movie I like to mp4 today using VLC but that crashes. I then downloaded winxdvd ripper - that worked better but cut the movie off after 10 minutes (I fail to see why I should have to pay 40 quid to get more than 10 mins of video).

I also tried an old Ubuntu install on another laptop and Handbrake and VLC there but got no video at all.

Is there any app/program that is open source/actually free where I can just drop in my DVD and create an easy mp4 file to be viewed via my media player/TV?

Thanks in advance

  • Davel23@kbin.social
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    10 months ago

    most discs are single-layer

    Many years ago I ripped a large number of DVDs, several hundred if not into the thousands, and the vast majority were dual-layer. Very few commercial movie releases were on single-layer disks, at least in the US. It sounds like you may be in another country so your experience may be different but where I am dual-layer disks were far more common.