
Keen observes might notice that Handbrake has an option use a disc as it's source, so why not just use that? I've never tried it, so not sure how well it works.

mp4 file which also reduces their size considerably. The second piece is Handbrake which is used to encode he movies into a. This program copies the raw video data so it will require a lot of space. First is MakeMKV to copy the data from the disc to my hard drive.

There are two main programs I use when copying a movie.

I thought I'd go ahead and take a moment to talk about how I copy the movies in case it's useful to others. Ever since I setup my HTPC/ NAS I've been copying any new movies I buy to store on it so that I can stream them to my Roku or over the internet using Plex media server while away on vacation.
