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.

  • pcc2048@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    Datahoarding tends to attract relatively technical people

    I wish that was the case.

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    1 year 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

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    1 year ago

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

    If it accomplishes what you need 🤷🏽‍♂️

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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year 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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

  • Alone-Hamster-3438@alien.topB
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    1 year 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?:)