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Old Feb 18, 2014 | 11:59 am
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Originally Posted by lensman
For the ripping crowd, I recommend makemkv. It is very fast because it doesn't transcode but it does leave you with an ~30GB mkv file.

If disk space is an issue then it will take you another 24 hours or so to get get that file down to 8GB using something like Handbrake.
I never understood going through this much hassle to rip a 2 hour movie I'm going to watch once.

I just jumped on eBay and found a Blu-Ray drive compatible with the bay in my ThinkPad. Swapped it out in three minutes, got a copy of WinDVD, and done.
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