I use makemkv. Works every time. Once in a while you have to open the disk “manually” and select the right track but ya, makemkv does it all.
Free if you want to update the beta trial key every few months. After years of use I bought a lifetime license for like $20. Probably the best value I’ve ever gotten.
I just tried using this last night for the first time on some indie movie from the early 2000’s. Surely no type of hard DRM to crack.
But when I finished, the movie was very pixelated.
I converted DVD to ISO file and then the app converted the ISO to mkv file all using default settings. Is that okay or should I have changed some of the settings?
Strangely enough, ISO is fine. Same with the generated mkv file. It seems the issue was when I uploaded to Plex. I didn’t think to check the file that was created, now this is making me wonder where I went wrong.
Ah, it’s probably Plex not supporting the video’s codec. When you use MakeMKV to generate a video file, it’s basically just grabbing the source file directly from the disc / iso. It’s fine in modern players but for maximum compatibility you’ll have to remux it.
EDIT: Forgot DVDs use a different folder structure than BDs so that guide won’t work, you can use this one from thewiki.moe instead (although it’s very technical, and the wiki is moreso focused on anime.) You can maybe try using ffmpeg to convert to an mp4, that might just make it work on Plex.
Strangely, playing was working fine. Just when I try to convert it has sync issues… I’m probably just too simpleminded to make it work that way, but VLC doesn’t make it easy to do it right either, I guess…
Turn from AMC is really excellent if you’re into revolutionary war spy rings! Excellent writing and acting.
I would also second Andor, fantastic show. Peaky Blinders is another good one, though try not to binge it, I think it’d be much better if watched less avidly.
A lot of deep genres are impossible to port to work with a controller. Sadly, this nowadays means that a lot of those games don’t see a lot of good entries.
It wasn’t any specific game for me. I grew up with a PC and always saw how much more they could do than any console. And when I discovered emulation, it was pretty much over for anything that wasn’t PC.
Similar. Had a Colecovision when I was a kid, followed by a second hand Commodore Vic-20. Hands down the Colecovision had better graphics, but all you could do is play the games you bought or shared. Next was a Tandy 1000 TX, and I don’t think I ever looked back.
I did have an original Gameboy, that I bought with my own money, and that was pretty cool, but still it was simply a matter of playing the games they sold you. In the shareware scene of the 90’s, even the Gameboy was horrendously limiting.
For me it’s never been a performance issue. Most of the time I’ve been using old PCs, and the latest console would technically be more powerful (back to Colecovision vs. Commodore Vic 20). It was a matter of flexibility and variety.
Any game released for a past console generation whose PC version still just works on modern systems. I like my classic console collection but I’m not jumping through hoops to connect an old console to a modern display. I just play the PC version or possibly even emulate. Yeah, Windows can be a chore at times but Steam Deck brought 90% of console convenience to PC games.
Binding keys to talk shit in chat on TFC. Hitting k and having “Pullllll” drop into chat after bouncing someone in the air with a rocket and finishing them with a shotgun blast was peak gaming.
I have a relatively recent ryzen system. With a 2070 super and windows 11. Sitting next to it is an i4790 system with a 1060 and no nvme. I use it daily. Love the hell out of it. It just runs. Windows 11 actually refuses to use the KVM. It’s just a constant pain in the ass. So lately I’ve turned it on maybe once a week at most. One of these days soon I’m going to bite the bullet and get a new nvme drive just for Linux on it. That way I don’t have to risk windows clobbering it for how little I will use it. My most recent heavy use of it was free games off of Amazon games. So that I can install and use them on the Linux system. If there’s no proper Amazon games client for Linux. There is a CLI downloader. But it doesn’t let you clean things Etc or notify you.
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