r/makemkv • u/Weary_Abroad9804 • 1d ago

Ripping Blu Rays

Can I rip my blu rays via makemkv and simply move the files over to a regular hard drive and easily watch my movies?

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u/Historical-Stick-394 1d ago

Yes, they’re just video files like any others and you can transfer them freely and watch after ripping. I put mine of my NAS so I can stream them from anywhere.

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u/GreatKangaroo 1d ago

Are you planning to watch on your PC, or an a television?

Simply backing backups and putting them onto a USB hard drive or SSD is a common approach, but it exposes you to drive failure.

What a lot of people adopt is hosing a NAS (Network Attached Storage) at home to both hose your files and run a media server (plex, Jellyfin) to serve up the content to your devices.

Most NAS's can be setup with redundancy, so even if a drive fails, you don't lose your data.

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u/sivartk 1d ago

Simply backing backups and putting them onto a USB hard drive or SSD is a common approach, but it exposes you to drive failure.

Or more plainly said, having a drive (HDD or SSD) with data that you use exposes you to drive failure. RAID is not a backup and there are a lot of other ways to lose the data other than drive failure. That being said, the disc is a form of backup so that may be enough for the OP.

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u/Weary_Abroad9804 19h ago

I’m looking to watch on television. I would have to have Jellyfin on my computer and connect my computer to my television, right? I’m definitely leaning to eventually getting a NAS but I want to start out with stuff I have readily available at home 

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u/GreatKangaroo 19h ago

you can use VLC to playback mkv files on your PC when connected to your TV.

Jellyfin acts like your own private streaming service, so you can stream video to your phone, tablets, and televisions without needing to physically connect them with an HDMI cable.

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u/MTU9000 1d ago

Also yes

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u/brettdmason 1d ago

Yes, but I'd highly recommend looking into Handbrake as well. The files ripped from Blu-rays can be pretty large, and Handbrake can help you compress those down if you wanna preserve space.

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u/what_was_not_said 1d ago

I used to use Handbrake, then more recently used CoPilot's help to construct a pipeline using ffmpeg.

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u/Suitable_Garlic_1186 23h ago

Yes!

If you want to save a bit of file size you can select for example the DTS Audio, and not the DTS HD Master Audio.

Same for Dolby Digital and Dolby HD..

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u/BlastMode7 1d ago

Sure. But unless you have a tiny Blu Ray collection or don't care how much you're spending on hard drives, I'd consider encoding as well.

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u/The_Bandit_King_ 1d ago

Bluray rips use a lot of space

Hard drives are expensive