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I’d be interested to hear about Alan Dexter’s project to rip all his DVDs to a NAS. In particular, the program and settings he used. Was he ripping the movie only or the entire DVD? I am looking at doing a project like this, but I am not sure of the best way to proceed.

–Wes Matthews

We’ve covered a few ways of doing this in these very pages, most recently in the December 2019 issue (Vol. 24, No. 12). I did rip some of the first DVDs using HandBrake, and the rips (just of the movies) were small (all less than 1GB) and looked reasonably good. The thing is, I have lots of space in the NAS I’m using, so size wasn’t much of a problem, so instead I moved over to using DVD Decrypter, which worked with some of the discs that were erroring using HandBrake. So, that’s what I’ve

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