Encoding DVDs with OpenBSD and Handbrake

I used to have a problem buying DVDs. If I saw one that was under $10.00 that I liked (or sort of liked, or had heard of, or thought looked cool) I’d buy it. Too cheap not to buy! My taste in movies is questionable (I’m ok with this) so I’ve amassed a decent collection of 80s action movies mixed with sci-fi, fantasy, and eclectic indie films (like Bubba Hotep). As a card carrying member of the Computer Nerd Association of America I couldn’t in good faith leave those DVDs on their discs without at least ripping them, so that’s what I did. I didn’t do anything other than rip them, and I’d used various tools over the years to do this so I currently have a folder with .mkv files, and several with VIDEO_TS folders that seem to be a full backup of the DVDs. I didn’t do any compression at the time, so most of these folders are sitting around 6GB each on my JankyNAS. For some reason (I was likely procrastinating something else I should have been doing), last week I decided to re-encode these…