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Assuming you mean commercial DVDs, handbrake+libdvdcss.
It's pretty much 'insert disk, hit button, wait some amount of time, video file!'
Would recommend, however, that you do not use AMF (AMD) for encoding, and just stick to QSV/NVENC/x264/x256 because AMD's quality is uh, less than stellar and you probably want the best possible quality for archiving your DVDs.
If you are going to worry about archival then when reencode it at all? Just remux the content from the dvd into a suitable container and be done with it.
That's also an option, yeah.
And, if you have the disk space, not an unreasonable one, but for me? DVD quality is pretty bad compared to anything newer and I've never noticed any real degredation transcoding a mpeg-2 stream to x265 which is like 25% the filesize, but that's very ymmv.
Just use the defaults. It is much slower and CPU heavy but the end result is way better
Not sure what I did incorrectly, but that was the route I started on before looking for other ways to backup my collection... I dropped the libdvdcss in my Handbrake directory as was suggested on other sites, but Handbrake throws an error every time.
Does the error have any text that might be helpful?
I guess I could have included that. It's just a generic muti-error output stating it couldn't find any files or that the source may be copyright protected - something I figured libdvdcss was supposed to work around.
Isn't AMD's HEVC/265 still decent, specifically? I feel like I read that somewhere years back. 264 has always been a weak spot for them, however.
It's still a quality-at-a-given-bitrate deficient.
If you're doing temporary encoding for like, streaming, or something where real-time encoding performance matters it's still probably the way to go, but if you're wanting to create high-quality archival stuff it's still not quite as good as your other options.
Granted, x265 on the cpu is probably still the way to go (excepting maybe if you're doing AV1 on an ARC gpu), but nvenc and qsv still outclass AMF.
Wish AMD would get a little more serious and bring that up to par, but they seem to be waffling on what they even want to do for consumer gpus so I'm not really holding my breath here.