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I use makemkv. Works every time. Once in a while you have to open the disk “manually” and select the right track but ya, makemkv does it all.
Free if you want to update the beta trial key every few months. After years of use I bought a lifetime license for like $20. Probably the best value I’ve ever gotten.
I just tried using this last night for the first time on some indie movie from the early 2000’s. Surely no type of hard DRM to crack.
But when I finished, the movie was very pixelated.
I converted DVD to ISO file and then the app converted the ISO to mkv file all using default settings. Is that okay or should I have changed some of the settings?
DVD -> ISO -> MKV should be fine, what happens when you play the iso directly in VLC?
Thanks for the reply!
Strangely enough, ISO is fine. Same with the generated mkv file. It seems the issue was when I uploaded to Plex. I didn’t think to check the file that was created, now this is making me wonder where I went wrong.
Ah, it's probably Plex not supporting the video's codec. When you use MakeMKV to generate a video file, it's basically just grabbing the source file directly from the disc / iso. It's fine in modern players but for maximum compatibility you'll have to remux it.
EDIT: Forgot DVDs use a different folder structure than BDs so that guide won't work, you can use this one from thewiki.moe instead (although it's very technical, and the wiki is moreso focused on anime.) You can maybe try using ffmpeg to convert to an mp4, that might just make it work on Plex.
Where is HEVC crew? 😂
Strangely, playing was working fine. Just when I try to convert it has sync issues... I'm probably just too simpleminded to make it work that way, but VLC doesn't make it easy to do it right either, I guess...
Does makemkv work well in wine?
There’s a native Linux version! No need for wine :)
True, but you need to build that yourself, and as I am but a smol helpless Linux newblet, I do not have the knowledge to do that.
Pretty sure there is an unofficial flatpak for makemkv
https://flathub.org/apps/com.makemkv.MakeMKV
Oh great! I came accross MakeMKV before, but couldn't find a recent version. Didn't think of Flathub...
Right! I use the flatpak myself - works great.
Oh nice, I didnt know that! Thanks, that'll make it a lot easier!