No lie, a large amount of my digital media was pulled from physical disks.
I set up a system with a ton of space and two optical drives and just cycled through, disk after disk, pulling the content off. Once I had it, I ran it through handbrake and converted it to H.264 (AVC/AAC), and then put all the disks away and forgot about them.
USB Blu-ray is how I got my media library… totally…
Someone else’s DVD drive
No lie, a large amount of my digital media was pulled from physical disks.
I set up a system with a ton of space and two optical drives and just cycled through, disk after disk, pulling the content off. Once I had it, I ran it through handbrake and converted it to H.264 (AVC/AAC), and then put all the disks away and forgot about them.
ISO gang here. Give me pure, unadulterated bit streams with menu-y goodness. I got the space available
Automatic Ripping Machine
Version 1.0 released in 2016. I’m pretty sure my process pre-dates this tool.
Looks good, but my collection is already ripped and converted, so I don’t have a need for it anymore.
I’ll keep this in my pack pocket if I happen to ever buy physical media again.