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Digitizing and archiving old dvd collection (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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My partner's grandmother has passed and has left a collection of hundreds possibly thousands of DVDs. These range from official releases to pirated and bootleg copies.

What would be the best way to digitize and archive this collection? Is there an external device out there that will let me burn and convert the DVDs? I'd want to possibly upload on archive.org if the copyright expired, store on backblaze or maybe another digital archiving site besides a regular torrent, would appreciate any recs on sites and advice in general. I haven't gone through these yet but figure the project would be a fun learning experience.

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[–] Pacrat173@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I asked the same thing about a year ago This tutorial worked good for me

[–] paradox2011@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

+1 for that Jeff Geerling video. Excellent tutorial.