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I have a bunch of DVDs/CDs that are slowly collecting dust because I almost never pull out the DVDs. There's an assortment of home videos, songs/movies/photos I've burnt on myself, songs/movies/photos that another service (ex. Costco) has burnt on for me, and commercial songs/videos.

I would like to be able to pull these from the DVDs losslessly, so that I can put it on my NAS and play it as I wish. I don't really care about the codec and whatnot as long as it's lossless (beyond what's already lost). I can pull the .vob files as reccomended here, but I have files with the extensions .bup, .ifo, and .vob. What do the other extensions do and are they needed?

I don't really care about ripping the commercial movies/songs as I can always rebuy them. How would I losslessly pull the files from the DVDs/CDs to my hard drive?

user760900
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    Don't think lossless is possible, other then that ... How to rip DVD's in high quality – mikewhatever Nov 29 '20 at 22:01
  • @mikewhatever - the other post suggests copying over the .vob files as lossless. I'm just wondering if the other files help and if there's any way to neatly package them. If not, I plan to use the highest setting on handbrake – user760900 Nov 29 '20 at 22:05
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    Re-encoding can be lossless or not. It makes little sense to talk about a lossless copy of a file, if in isn't the same, it's not a copy. You may want to look it up about the other files. – mikewhatever Nov 29 '20 at 22:12
  • To save audio files in a lossless format, try .flac . An extraordinarily convenient tool that I used for ripping my collection to .flac years ago is abcde, which is still in the Ubuntu repositories and great as ever. flac files tend to be large, I export to other (lossy-but-small) formats for memory-constrained devices. – user535733 Nov 29 '20 at 22:35
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    Look into MakeMKV as a .mkv file is uncompressed so it would be lossless but everything of your choosing from the disc is in the nice and neat .mkv file. – Terrance Nov 29 '20 at 23:13

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