Looking into media players. Specifically for my DVD collection. Maybe Kodi, Plex or Jellyfin. At this second leaning towards Kodi. I’m certainly not going to pay for a subscription to play my own media. So I think that leaves Plex out.
This is important… Kodi can play CDs and DVDs directly from the disk or image file, almost all popular archive formats from your hard drive.
Supposedly it can also read .iso files. I barely remember ISO files… I had to google.
At this point I definitely think makemkv and handbreak are out. As I pointed out previously. The first few discs of the B&W I Love Lucy didn’t include the short color prefix that had the title and air date. I should say they were there but not included with the rip. That’s a small but very nice addition.
A DVD ISO file is a digital copy of the entire contents of a DVD, saved as a single file. It includes all the data, file structure, and metadata from the original DVD, allowing for easy storage, sharing, or replication without needing the physical disc.
You can rip DVDs to ISO files in Linux using the dd command. For example, you can use the command dd if=/dev/sr0 of=/path/to/store/image.iso bs=8192 to create an ISO image from the DVD.
I seem to remember a Windows program that could backup to iso. No a video was suggested when I searched “rip dvd linux” in Youtube, showing the software Brasero and I’m positive that is the program I was thinking of. I haven’t thought of it in years.
I also think I may have used Kodi… XBMC then, back in to late 1990s