EDIT: Thank you so much everyone! There’s so much help for me here, and I’ll recommend anyone with similar question as me to read the comments
Basically title.
I have the DVDs and I have the hardware to burn them to my PC.
But the file size is too much. What software would be ideal to get the best quality with the lowest file size?
I’m going for file sizes per movie at around 2-3gb max.
Perhaps Handbrake.
But if you do care about the quality, then you should just download those movies in higher quality than DVD. Like this you’re just getting 480p/576p with visible compression artifacts at the same file size.
DVDShrink can help compress DVDs perfectly. But it doesn’t support DRM-protected discs. So, if you’d like to handle DRM-protected DVDs, you can try the alternative of DVD Shrink.
Handbrake would be the easiest. For commercial DVDs, you just need to add
libdvdcss-2.dllin your Handbrake install directory and it will bypass the copy protection.For the container I’d suggest going with MKV. For the video codec you can go with x265 (HEVC) with a CRF/RF of 22, which should give you a good balance between quality and size. For the audio you can copy it as-is.
Would that work for Blu-ray? I’m guessing not.
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