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by Wighty
Sat Oct 18, 2025 6:47 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Am I processing my rips correctly?
Replies: 12
Views: 764

Re: Am I processing my rips correctly?

Wow, I am lost here, you, I assume buy a disc DVD, Blu-ray, and in my case 4K as well, rip to MKV film + extras then compress, why? you take the highest quality and make it worse. I just rip the disc disc 1 to 1 to folder structure, rename, move to server, play via dune media player. TV series I ri...
by Wighty
Tue Oct 14, 2025 3:45 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Am I processing my rips correctly?
Replies: 12
Views: 764

Re: Am I processing my rips correctly?

Have you considered keeping your original rips? No, never thought to do that. In the years to come, h.265 compressed video might not be the best way to have your files. Why would you say that? Surely, it's the "new" standard? I don't think FLAC keeps any positional audio data like Dolby A...
by Wighty
Mon Oct 13, 2025 8:48 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Am I processing my rips correctly?
Replies: 12
Views: 764

Re: Am I processing my rips correctly?

Continuing on with my research, I have determined that some of the codecs in use are lossy (AC3, AAC, ACM, DTS, MP2), some are lossless (DTS-HD, True HD), and one is not compressed (PCM). From what I understand, and I could be wrong, converting a lossy audio track into FLAC (lossless) will not gain ...
by Wighty
Sat Oct 11, 2025 1:17 pm
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Am I processing my rips correctly?
Replies: 12
Views: 764

Re: Am I processing my rips correctly?

Hi. Sorry, I'm not sure I understand. Do you extract the entire disc, or just the movie, or just the episodes of a TV series with MakeMKV, then use Handbrake to compress just the video, removing the audio track and subtitles. Then, using Mkvtoolnix, you combine the Handbrake-compressed video file w...
by Wighty
Sat Oct 11, 2025 3:08 am
Forum: General MakeMKV discussion
Topic: Am I processing my rips correctly?
Replies: 12
Views: 764

Am I processing my rips correctly?

Hi, I have been using MakeMKV for a while now and have even purchased a key (it’s well worth it), and I thought I post my process to garner some additional advice from the experts out there. My Process 1) First I rip the DVD/Blu-Ray (no 4K here) using MakeMKV (v1.18.2), with the following settings (...