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Would you share the software you use?
by gkop 5y ago
Would you share the software you use?
- reaperducer 5y agoSince it's home videos, and thus not slathered in DRM, nothing special. Just Handbrake: https://handbrake.fr https://handbrake.fr
- gkop 5y agoThanks. In the CD ripping world, Exact Audio Copy does a lot of tricks in software, eg. I think it puts the drive in raw mode and will read slowly and several times, so you can get good results on arbitrary hardware. Does Handbrake do similar? Is there some fundamental difference with [the non-DRMed] DVDs where the hardware is more important, and software is less able to compensate?
- duskwuff 5y agoNo. It's unnecessary. The contents of a DVD are compressed, so any errors would be highly visible at playback time -- so the format has enough error correction built in to detect and correct errors. This is a fundamentally different approach from audio CD, which doesn't have sufficient error correction built in, but relies on the inherent resiliency of the raw audio format to conceal errors.
- gkop 5y agoAh, of course! Compression, doh. Thanks.
- LeoPanthera 5y agoMore practically, DVDs and blu-rays are files on a filesystem. An audio CD does not have a filesystem, it's a raw stream of pits and lands, which do not correspond directly to bits, they must be decoded first. The reason why ripping an audio CD is such an "art" is that without a filesystem there's no easy way to tell where the laser actually is on the disc. If it jumps or skips you might not realise.