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I'm not using 1.0.0+ until it's codesigned and/or dmg gpg verifiable with a known-good signature. Do not install untrusted, unverifiable apps is security 101.
Just download the source code, audit it, and built it yourself.
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This is an interesting one, in that most data on DVDs is already stored in lossy formats (such as MPEG-2 for video https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD-Video ). The best form of preservation is to rip the contents as a DVD ISO, which will use the same video and audio formats, as well as preserving extra features like the DVD menus. Any DVD ripper that can rip to a DVD ISO format and perform checksums on the ripped con…
h.264 or h.265 is going to yield a much better compression ratio for equivalent quality, even after transcoding formats. On the order of 2:1 or 3:1 vs MPEG2 format for DVD.
Of course, ripping DVDs is pretty silly these days if there's an HD source available.
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Streaming doesn't stop it, you just record your screen. It's not perfect, but it works. DRM is dumb.
> Streaming doesn't stop it, you just record you let screen Not necessarily, see HDCP.
Not necessarily, see HDCP strippers.
HandBrake is one of those pieces of software that I've never even had to consider looking around to find something slightly better, it's always done what its supposed to with no fuss. A while back I wanted to rip a DVD my kids got so they could watch it on their tablets and downloading HandBrake was such a no brainer that I entirely forgot that I don't have an optical drive built into any of my computers anymore befo…
I ended up making a wrapper for HandBrakeCLI to simplify this: https://github.com/xenomachina/dvdrip
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Or you know - running memtest86[1]. [1] http://www.memtest.org
Indeed, I'm also a fan of http://www.advancedclustering.com/products/software/breakin/ - use it for soak testing systems before giving them real load
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Ironically, you're allowed to make a copy for yourself if you rent.
But you have to delete the copy when you give the original back so what's the advantage?
You do in the USA? Why? AFAIK, not in The Netherlands. The copy was made from a legal source and in a legal way, and is therefore legal regardless if you do or do not possess the original copy.
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Maybe my Handbrake installation was broken because of defective RAM - I don't know exactly... anyway: I found the problem was RAM and now it works...
It's actually scary how much (unpredictable and maybe undetectable) stuff can happen due to bad RAM.
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What's the best software for lossless archival ripping?
I've generally used MakeMKV to get from protected-source to open-copy, but still as MPEG-2 streams without any loss / transcoding. That's not what you'd use as an archivist - you would want something that does structure-level copying instead, so you get menus and chapters and whatnot. Unless you're talking about archiving just the feature, then it's about perfect and lets you preserve everything you care about in a s…
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How good is the ffmpeg AAC encoder these days? Ages ago when I started using HandBrake, it using Apple's CoreAudio codec on Macs for the AAC encoding was a big plus on the audio side.
libfdk_aac is fast and good