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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Why are you still using DVD Decrypter? It's been abandoned since 2005. (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by WindowlessBasement@alien.top to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Over the last couple weeks there's been a few threads of people insisting on using DVD Decrypter. I was wondering why are people still using it? Datahoarding tends to attract relatively technical people, so there must be some reason to keep using software that hasn't been updated since Windows XP was modern.

MakeMKV seems like the better option in every use case except full backups. However a full DVD image can be made with any imaging software or even just dd. Any player that can handle the DVD menus from an ISO is going to be able to decrypt during playback.

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[–] TR1PL3M3@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Does SvDshrink still works?

[–] pcc2048@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Datahoarding tends to attract relatively technical people

I wish that was the case.

[–] MoronicusTotalis@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I dropped my hard drive out the car window now its making a weird noise please help its going click click listen to my video is this normal!!!

[–] WindowlessBasement@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Some of the responses here are making me reconsider that statement.

[–] rjasan@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

People use it because it works, new doesn’t always equal better just because it’s new.

If it accomplishes what you need 🤷🏽‍♂️

[–] Double-Perception970@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Caus you can rearrange a DVD structure and recode the VOBs with special subtitles, etc.

[–] aHolyLight@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I have a copy of it archived and actually had to use it for one dvd in an anime set of mine that makemkv kept erroring out on a few years ago when backing up and setting up my plex server

[–] Alone-Hamster-3438@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

If you just want playable copy, then sure makemkv is the way. If you want to make proper encode, then riping vobs is the correct way. Ever tried to OCR subtitles from mkv made by makemkv?:)

[–] Van__Dammage@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I ripped over 150 mma dvds and a few movies with it and ran into one issue. it just works.

[–] IForgotThePassIUsed@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I use it to rip everything into one big vob then feed the vob through handbrake and use hardware accelerated encoding using my 3080ti to encode the movie in ~3 mins

works great for Movies but TV shows are much more complicated.

[–] WindowlessBasement@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

How is that different than feeding one big MKV into handbrake?

[–] Geezheeztall@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I’ve used it for years. It worked when needed. I’ll use another program when it doesn’t.

[–] Halos-117@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Same. It actually stopped working for me recently I guess the discs were too new. So I switched to Makemkv. Before that I had no need to.

[–] timeago2474@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

wait it's abandonware?