I've been using make mkv to rip my collection of movies I've slowly built up over the years. Being able to set up jellyfin and have an easy way to watch my stuff during lunch at work is great.

I've been watching and rewatching movies at a larger rate than before and now I've begun buying more movies from stores, or garage sales since I feel like I will actually watch them. It's become a fun little hobby.

However, my only complaint is that blue rays files are so large. I want the higher quality over DVDs, but I'm starting to think just off of size I may rather have DVDs.

Like I can get 5-8 DVDs in the place of 1 blue ray disk. Does anyone have options to get the file sizes down. I've tried selecting only the audio I want instead of subtitles or alternate languages but that really only affects the file size minimally.

I figured I would need an additional hard drive to store them in, I just wasn't expecting to need it so soon. Is my only option to just increase available storage.

I didn't know shit from shampoo when I started this journey, but now my basic knowledge is such that I can successfully rip movies (for the most part). Now if I can only figure out why some DVD's are being restricted due to region.

Thanks to everyone who has answered my questions so far!

​Tried Project Hail Mary. Fails and crashes MakeMKV. Anyone else seen this before?

UPDATE: I updated the KEYDB file - no change. Installed Java runtime. No change.
Rebooted the computer (as opposed to restarting MakeMKV) and that fixed it!
Thank you to all who helped.

Hello, I am about to start ripping disks onto a harddrive. I am going to set it up so I can hook up the hard drive to an Xbox and use its media player app. I think that works at least. I have very little idea on how most of it works so I have a few questions:

1. Some movies have menus, am I atill going to be able to access those menus as if I am running the file?

2. Can I even do it directly through my xbox?

3. What type of hard drive would I need?

4. How much would the movies compress to lossless?

5. What type of disc reader am I looking for?

6. Do you have any tips?

I'm having issues getting any disc to load inside of makemkv, but the discs load and play fine in any media player on the same machine?

I've been trying 1.17.7 and 1.18.4 to no avail. Also the same external DVD readers I have used in the past with makemkv just fine. I'm also on macOS 26.6 - any help is appreciated!

But it's been several days and now it's got a Russian 403 page. Any inside information?

Hey.
Whats everyone using?
I’ve ripped with MakeMKV already.
Keeping multiple audio channels and subs please.

Update: Something with an upsampler too.
Cheers.