r/makemkv

Blu-ray / 4K Ripping.

Status update.

1 month in.

4 drives - 906 rips total roughly 40tb of data.

Fairly even results considering the drives were purchased at slightly different times. I’ve not had a better or worse experience from either the verbatim or the aftermarket enclosures all 4 drives are lg bu40n’s 1.03 firmware.

Tiny media manager used to scrape and create NFOs and download poster and fan art.

I’ve started building a media poster program to scan my library and display a rotation of movie posters. I plan to integrate with zidoo to display now playing automatically. This is an ongoing coding project of mine. Picked up a cheap 32” Samsung frame tv to use.

I tried just pulling the mkv from the disc with no luck. Then I made a backup which was successful but I cannot get that backup to load in and open to make the MKV. Anyone have any luck? It's the EU version of the disc.

I've worked on this off and on for the last 2 months. I actually had the idea about 13 months ago, and bought the few pieces of hardware required back then.

I'm a software engineer by day, and a 3D model dabbler by night, so I take great care and pride in this thing. I'll be upfront and mention, if it matters to you, that AI was definitely used; I'm only familiar with a few languages, but I really really wanted it available on multiple platforms (including Linux ARM) which means I had to ask for help on that front. Testing was done in VMs, so I'd appreciate any gotchas you run into. Development was initially on Mac OS, so I expect that front to be the most hammered out.

Initially, I wanted to just fork another *ARR development for that familiar layout, however, quickly learned that the Orange Pi Zero 2W (and other 2W variants with the same footprint) are simply a bit weak, and some pre-reqs weren't available for the lightweight ARM distro that gets installed. Instead I opted for resembling the layout as faithfully as I could, and I'm pretty satisfied with where that ended up.

This is mostly meant for casuals. I haven't implemented rip settings. It quite literally finds the largest title, and grabs it in the default language, and drops an MKV to your network share you tell it about directly. It's absolutely capable of settings though, so let me know what scenarios would be great additions. I plan on using this till it falls apart, so I'm married to the project; I wouldn't worry about support falling off a cliff.

Updates are cooked into the preparer tool, as well as the web interface, so if updates come up, its nice and easy to run those updates through.

Make ripping easier on yourself.

Download: https://github.com/jackharvest/riparr

3D Print Chassis: https://makerworld.com/en/models/3382847-riparr-blu-ray-dvd-ripper-box-for-plex-jellyfin#profileId-3849135