So I recently got my Hands on an old Panasonic Toughbook (CF 30) that has a DVD player (it is the only device that is capable of reading Dvds that i own) and now I want to digitalise some of the movies I still got laying around. I gave Handbrake a shot, but it didnt work for me, so now I want to know your recommendations for ripping from DVDs. The thing with that Laptop is, that Its about 19 Years old and still runs on 32 bits, so keep that in mind (I'm running Debian 11.7)

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[–] Chaser@lemmy.zip 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I like MakeMKV. It also works flawlessly with modern formats like (4k-)BluRays. Also it's super simple to use. Just throw your disk in, press the big shiny button and wait till it rips your disk. It even handles the decryption for you.

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

And it runs fine in a VM.

I have 3 external DVD drives - VM's were the only way to use all 3 on a single machine. Really reduces rip times when I have a stack of discs.

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 2 points 16 hours ago

Unless your models have weird drivers you absolutely can have multiple disc drives