Step 1: Rip DVD (MakeMKV, or others)

Step 2: Have deep philosophical discussion on the ethics of your actions

Step 3: Use any video editing tool to trim out the parts of the file you don't want.

Step 4: (optionally) burn to DVD as playable movie ... (preserving the menu content isn't possible at this point. That ship sailed when you ripped it).

Step 4a: Play digitally with Plex.

Step 5: Explain to your wife (or significant other) that it's a hobby, and not stupid, and if you upgraded the computer (server) Plex would play her Hallmark movies and RealHousewives episodes better ... (it won't, but she doesn't need to know that).

Thanks,
Alexander

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022, 10:50 Michael Butash via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

I always laugh with new format introductions by the media cartels to get people to buy the same thing all over again, now these streaming services, and still somehow get fed ads for your patronage.  Or I can just download a clean, perfect version of that already in about 2 minutes of effort from piratebay.  Unless you really feel some guilt or enjoy the technical practice of ripping video, just download it using a vpn to some random place and save the effort someone else already did.

I haven't paid for media or seen commercials in 25 years, and rather spend for new hard drives and bandwidth over a new movie I'm going to download on said hard drive, watch exactly once (if that), delete, and forget.  Apparently people like me haven't ruined the business that the Disney's and the other mega media cartels go out of business yet and still maintain record profits.  Go figure.

-mb

On Sun, Nov 6, 2022 at 8:00 AM George Toft via PLUG-discuss <plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

What I do in the privacy of my own home is none of the Government's
business.  It's in the Constitution.  Not that the Government cares much
about that, either.

Regards,

George Toft

On 11/3/2022 9:16 PM, Harold Hartley via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Altering a dvd for any reason is against federal law. It displays that on the beginning of the dvd or Blu-ray.
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2022, at 20:06, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> I bought some DVDs recently that have those annoying trailers before
>> the main menu that I can't skip or fast forward to.   Is there some
>> llnux software that would let me remove those trailers from a copy  I
>> make of one of the DVDs? thanks
>>
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