What do I need in Debian 10 to rip audio CDs to flac and convert to other formats and rip DVDs to mkv and convert to other formats?

• whipper

  35 1,088 0.0 Python

  Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed

  

For CDs, I strongly recommend a ripper that can verify your rip against the AccurateRip database. Otherwise you can’t be certain your rip is correct. whipper and morituri (from where it forked) are candidates. The latter is packaged.

• ffmpeg-build-script

  8 948 7.5 Shell

  The FFmpeg build script provides an easy way to build a static FFmpeg on OSX and Linux with non-free codecs included.

These days the situation is much better, but you really want FDK-AAC for best quality (it's proper Fraunhofer code released as Open Source for the Android project, and now widely compatible on all platforms). You can find a standalone front end in the repos, but I prefer to build ffmpeg with support for it for more flexibility. (The ffmpeg built in default aac encoder is still noticeably worse, despite it's improvement a few years ago.)

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• exhale

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You might also want to try exhale a new open source xHE-AAC encoder (not sure if latest iOS supports it yet, so check first, but if so that's likely to be the best for lowest filesize whilst still sounding great -- recent listening tests show at least comparable to Opus (which sadly is unlikely to get native Apple support outside of the IETF requirement for WebRTC)

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