2024-04-15, 09:14 AM
I'm sorry if this has been asked before, I've attempted to search the forum to find mentions of topics that apparently do not exist so I thought I'd revive the subject.
We've just recently re-discovered our trove of DVDs and I've set Jellyfin up in order for us to have easy access to them. At the moment, my process is relatively simple; MakeMKV to rip and I put it through Handbrake for file size and device compatibility as I'm currently using an old pi3 for our Jellyfin Server (I intend to upgrade to some sort of MiniPC in some time) and it's a bit hopeless when it comes to Hardware Acceleration.
My biggest issue right now is that I cannot seem to get these Ripped DVDs working on our Mobile Devices, although they work fine on the computer or Smart TV app.
I also don't really know what the best practices are when it comes to Subtitles as most of the DVDs do not provide SRT files but VOBSUB files.
I've read that it's just easier to search for them manually rather than running them through some OCR process. For some of our movies, this has been a pretty solid strategy, but for many others I've spent hours testing various subtitles via the opensubtitles plugin that have the minimum amount of offset to and we don't always find subtitles in multiple languages (we are a multi-lingual household). I've heard good things with Bazarr, and I will eventually give that a go when I upgrade my hardware, but until then I was wondering how everyone else deals with this.
What is your process and what have you found works the best for you?
We've just recently re-discovered our trove of DVDs and I've set Jellyfin up in order for us to have easy access to them. At the moment, my process is relatively simple; MakeMKV to rip and I put it through Handbrake for file size and device compatibility as I'm currently using an old pi3 for our Jellyfin Server (I intend to upgrade to some sort of MiniPC in some time) and it's a bit hopeless when it comes to Hardware Acceleration.
My biggest issue right now is that I cannot seem to get these Ripped DVDs working on our Mobile Devices, although they work fine on the computer or Smart TV app.
I also don't really know what the best practices are when it comes to Subtitles as most of the DVDs do not provide SRT files but VOBSUB files.
I've read that it's just easier to search for them manually rather than running them through some OCR process. For some of our movies, this has been a pretty solid strategy, but for many others I've spent hours testing various subtitles via the opensubtitles plugin that have the minimum amount of offset to and we don't always find subtitles in multiple languages (we are a multi-lingual household). I've heard good things with Bazarr, and I will eventually give that a go when I upgrade my hardware, but until then I was wondering how everyone else deals with this.
What is your process and what have you found works the best for you?