Best Practices for ripping DVDs

[TheDreadPirate]

Transcoding the rips is purely for reducing storage space. MPEG2 from DVDs is extremely inefficient compared to modern codecs. Even when compared to the aging H264 codec. Even 1080P blurays, which use H264, has room for significant compression if you are ok with a little quality loss.

If you plan on accessing your Jellyfin over the internet, pre-transcoding is also beneficial if you have limited upload bandwidth.

I pre-transcode all my media into MKV containers. Initially using Handbrake to encode with HEVC/H265, now using ffmpeg to encode with AV1.

A community member wrote a good start-to-finish guide.

https://forum.jellyfin.org/t-from-disc-t...r-jellyfin