Is it worth the effort setting up a NAS? Do you watch all those films you transferred from disk?

Sloppy Bob

????

You're not burning anything. You're ripping a purchased disc to a HDD.

Maybe it's just terminology but burning implies you're copying to a disc.

exponential

It's just terminology.
Now you see how inexperienced I am with this sort of thing.
I thought the two were one and the same....

It's a 90's thing..

Eddy555

Ripping a Blu-ray film to an uncompressed MKV takes me about 30 mins max, UHD about 45mins to an hour.

sim12

I had this very dilemma after christmas i founda nice lttle program call " tiny media manager ", it effectively creates a folder with a disc image of each of your inputted blu Ray films and when file is added to kodi it scrapes the info as if you have the movie on you computer. When you press to play it will ask you to insert the disc.

exponential

Let me guess, you work at IBM and get to use their supercomputer to rip stuff!

Seriously though, what spec is your pc? That seems very fast!

Sloppy Bob

My laptop is about the same.

It's just the same as ripping a CD. you're not doing anything overly processor intensive, you're just reading and copying data.
As I said earlier, compressing video can take many hours to get good results, possibly even over a day depending upon the spec of your PC, but ripping is really more dependant upon the ability of the drive read speed.

xxGBHxx

That as may be, but doesn't make it any less illegal since they repealed the law. I'm not on a moral crusade, I rip my disks and CD's too and it is ludicrous that it's against the law but that doesn't make it legal unfortunately.

G

Sloppy Bob

I'm not saying it is, I know it's (stupidly) illegal. I'm disagreeing with you in that AFAIK we can discuss it here on the forum as there are threads about how to do it.

Discussing downloading of copyrighted material is against forum rules, but ripping discs isn't.

xxGBHxx

There is ripping and there is transcoding.

Ripping is a 1 for 1 copy using the exact same quality and encoding the disk uses. i.e. you change nothing whatsoever and are just taking whatever the disk has. This is relatively quick and easy (15-30 mins depending on disk) and programs like MakeMKV do this.

Transcoding (which I think some of the posters are talking about as they mention "quality settings") takes the file and changes the encoding to lower the quality. This is usually done to either reduce space the size of the video file or change it to a nother format so it can be played on a specific device. This can EASILY take half a day even on a very powerful computer. Programs like Handbrake do this.

Both have their uses. Ripping is great if you want to maintain that pristine quality of Bluray/4k and don't care about how much space you have. Transcoding is good if you are short on space or need to play a file on a mobile device where a drop in quality will go unnoticed.

G

xxGBHxx

Fair enough I apologise and stand corrected.

G