@DukeDuke @ifixcoinops dvdshrink was the go-to-tool for some time

@DukeDuke @ifixcoinops MakeMKV. Its the only reliable option in my experience

It fully rips with disc with no compression. Its free to rip DVD's but needs a license key for Bluray

You can compress it with handbrake after but if you're serious about doing this then you don't want to degrade quality from already low bitrate originals

My warning is some Lionsgate discs take a while to scan because of weird copy protection but this is the case with any software

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If you're on Linux 🐧 then there's a command-line program called dvdbackup. With the -M (“mirror”) option, it rips the entire disc, decrypts it, and places the content in a folder. VLC can play from that folder with its “open directory” command. DVD menus will still work, as they did on the original disc.

Note that this produces a *folder*, not a single file, and it will be about 8GB. There are other options you can use to make a different kind of backup.

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@DukeDuke @ifixcoinops VLC does a decent enough job, IIRC.