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Digitizing and archiving old dvd collection (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/datahoarder@lemmy.world

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Original question by @ezyryder@lemmy.dbzer0.com

My partner's grandmother has passed and has left a collection of hundreds possibly thousands of DVDs. These range from official releases to pirated and bootleg copies. What would be the best way to digitize and archive this collection? Is there an external device out there that will let me burn and convert the DVDs? I'd want to possibly upload on archive.org if the copyright expired, store on backblaze or maybe another digital archiving site besides a regular torrent, would appreciate any recs on sites and advice in general. I haven't gone through these yet but figure the project would be a fun learning experience.

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

@ezyryder@lemmy.dbzer0.com honestly the bulk of it is probably easily findable online and it'll be faster and probably a better copy

I'd set up Radarr (for movies) and Sonarr (For TV) and grab a Usenet subscription. From there you can just feed a list of items into it and it'll track em down for you, download and sort into a Plex compatible folder structure

For the rest, any DVD reader and handbrake will be fine, you might need DVD decryptor though for any commercial stuffs

[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

Had a good chuckle at asking how to digitize digital media :D