libdvdcss-dll VS Tdarr

If you want to rip with handbrake, you'll need libdvdcss. Put libdvdcss-2.dll (64 bit) in C:\Program Files\HandBrake

VideoLAN hosts an older Windows build that most likely still works. If it doesn't, there's this.

You can enable handbrake to decrypt DVDs itself with libdvdcss.

A little more complicated than VLC, but totally worth it if you're doing a bunch of stuff at once. The only caveat is that you'll need to copy/paste libdvdcss.dll (the DVD decryption library) to the install directory, usually "C:\Program Files\HandBrake", because without it, it can't read the discs, but once you've got that down, you can just configure your preferred options, hit "Start Encode" and let it do the rest.

You could also use tdarr to automate transcoding as soon as stuff enters your library so that it’s direct playable when you decide to watch it, but I’ve never needed to try it

The only place I can find mention of the script is Tdarr_Server is not closing exiftool.exe after use. #423 and tdarr_server.exe crashes often #412

I've had issues with my 11600k and now 11400 in unraid too. Though it's CPU encoding in my case. See https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr/issues/777 .

So I read through this issue and I have a couple nodes setup, some with QSV and others with NVENC. The respective node capabilities are designated for exactly one of QSV or NVENC.

Have a look at Tdarr for distributed transcoding. I have it on a few nodes and it’s been pretty easy on the network.

I have created a feature request in the Tdarr GitHub page; https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr/issues/772

You can also use tdarr if you have more than 1 file it can auto transcodes multiple files in a directory all at once. https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr

or this: https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr