[TriLUG] cut the TV cable

[Wes Garrison via TriLUG]

MakeMKV is a great program for it, and it is completely cross-platform.

*http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224
<http://www.makemkv.com/forum2/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=224>*

Closed-source, unfortunately, but it works great on my Debian box.

It's free while in Beta, but you have to keep updating it to keep using
it.  It's annoying.  I went ahead and bought it even though it was more
than I was comfortable with ($50 or $60 I think), because I support what
they're doing, enabling me to use my purchased content as I see fit.

-Wes

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 1:27 PM, bak <bak at picklefactory.org> wrote:

> How have you been digitizing blu-rays? With 4TB drives to be had for a
> song, I’m seriously considering it. It would also be great not to have to
> deal with blu-ray hoo-hah and booting up my PS3 and having nine firmware
> upgrades just because I want to watch a movie. It’s worse than DVDs ever
> were.
>
> —bak
>
> > On Jun 30, 2015, at 11:51, Wes Garrison via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 9:13 AM, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 10:44 PM, Wes Garrison via TriLUG <
> >> trilug at trilug.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Kodi is not for piracy; it is a great Media Center for streaming your
> >>> media
> >>> from your home NAS.
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >> That you acquired through piracy. :)
> >>
> >
> > That is not funny, and it took a lot of self control to not reply with an
> > expletive.
> >
> > No.  Content that I ripped by spending hundreds of hours digitizing my
> > extensive DVD and (small) BluRay collection acquired at great expense
> over
> > many years.
> >
> > Not everyone is unethical.
> >
> > -Wes
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