How to backup around 200 DVD
How to backup around 200 DVD
Hi everyone!
I have around 200 DVD (with movies) that I’d want to backup in order to save them from rotting or physical media disappearance.
My most powerful computer with a DVD drive is a 2012 MacBook Pro upgraded to 16gb of Ram with an SSD running Fedora 42.
If possible, I’d want to keep all the bonuses of the movies, but I could also just backup the movies if keeping the whole disc is too difficult.
My goal would be to keep the original quality.
Also 6-7 discs are already skipping scenes even if the disc shows no damage.
I’ve bought some of these discs 20 years ago with my teenager pocket money so I wouldn’t want to lose them.
Thanks for the help.
As I own these discs and nothing would be illegal in my country, I thought it would be better to post here instead of the piracy community.
Edit: I guess I’ll use Make MKV Beta as it seems to work well and VLC can open the MKV files. Thanks for your help!
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You should be able to make a complete backup of a DVD to an iso file using dd.
That would get you an exact copy of the disk with everything on it. And also, while 200 DVDs sounded a lot, it's "only" 860GB (assuming 4,3GB/disk which I think is the most common for movies), so it's not stupidly expensive either. Obviously you'll want a RAID setup and most likely backups for that, so it's more than just a single 1TB drive, but still quite manageable.
Actually, 8.5GB. Movies are typically on dual layer discs.
They would probably compress pretty well, I imagine.
Majority of the data (video) is already compressed as MPEG-2 so I'd think it doesn't compress very well. But if you don't have enough storage it's always an option to re-encode video with something more modern and achieve smaller file sizes from that. But that also removes at least DVD menu and other 'format dependent' options.
Yeah, but I'm assuming there are many gains to be had if your compression method doesn't need to be stream decoded for real time playback.
But then would I be able to read them on any computer without burning them?
Yes. You could use vlc or even as an iso file just open them as a virtual drive.
I think VLC can also open them on Android.
yep, unfortunately it doesn't seem to be able to read from actual drives though.
I used K3b for that. It can copy to image and even ignore errors if necessary, though I didn't yet have to try that. It's 8.5GB per disc, so get some 2TB HDD for that.