Those slot-loading drives can be a PITA to repair, and you can get a noticeably faster (and sometimes easier to use) external drive for under $50. Basically, you could have your conversion running 24/7, and you can add more files from DVDs at your leisure.Ī couple comments: 1) I would not convert my home collection using an Apple internal DVD drive. When I converted my collection of TV shows, it was faster to use a program like MTR first to add to the handbrake queue. It can also convert a queue, if you rip the DVDs first to a hard drive. The advantage of handbrake is the simplicity - works really well on whatever DVD media you have mounted. Handbrake needed that approval to use the VLC decoding software. There is a Mac software protection step you need to go thru 'this application was downloaded from the Internet, do you want to launch it'? or some similar textbox to approve. The only 'gotcha' I experienced is making sure VLC is not only installed on your Mac, but be sure to launch it once. I've been using this configuration for several months and it's served me well.Įdited 1 time(s). All of your media is in a single, easily organized location. Choose your Movies and TV shows folders (from in your iTunes Media folder) in Plex Media Server. Plex Media Server for Plex friendly applications. iTunes Home Sharing for devices that are iTunes Home Sharing friendly. You can use iTunes Home Sharing and Plex Media Server simultaneously. But, I would actually let iTunes handle the organization of the movies.Ī. I actually use the AppleTV preset and it works well and makes it easy for me to use Plex as well as iTunes Home Sharing.Ĭreate a batch convert in Handbrake (using one of the presets encoding options) and let it do its thing. Once you rip the DVD, use Handbrake to convert it into a Plex friendly format. The problem I found is that some DVDs cause agita to one or the other program. The most commonly used ripping programs are RipIt and Mac DVD Ripper Pro (aka MDRP). Handbrake for encoding and two rippers for ripping. I know you don't want to use two different programs but it is really the best method. In your case, I'm betting the DVDs have copy protection.
Handbrake can do some ripping if no copy protection is involved.
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