Thank you and tbh I could do even better if I re-did it today. This one is from 2020 and since then I've gotten into doing my DVD encodes at 540p for that sweet sweet integer-scaling to 1080, 2160, etc avoiding the shitty scalers built in to most modern displays.
Ah cool. I've been buying few various obscure movies in 4:3 PAL/NTSC and 16:9 DVDs in various regions and converting them to h.265 using slow processing. As I don't trust ffmpeg and handbrake to perpetually be superior, so I'm always keeping around at least unencrypted VOBs if not the DVD .iso. Including pristine source artifacts along with prettified ones is important for archival. (My inner archivist is a choosy beggar Karen.)
Same here — I always always keep the untouched DVD image and usually even keep the physical discs. I tend to leave CSS intact in the name of doing as exact a copy as possible since it’s so fully broken.
Decrypted VOBs are nice to have(tm) additional intermediate products because nearly all players and some transcoders are idiotically region locked but will generally accept decrypted VOBs (same field data) just fine.
