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My DVD drive is attached to a Windows PC. My Jellyfin server runs somewhere else. For a while, the gap between them meant the server was still getting pulled into work the Windows machine was better positioned to do.Ripping and video encoding are not lightweight background chores. They need local storage, sustained CPU time, and direct access to the optical drive. Sending that work toward the media server made the setup more complicated without making the result safer.So I brought RipFoundry to Windows.RipFoundry for Windows is the desktop companion to my Linux workflow. It scans a DVD, matches the selected titles with TMDB, preserves the MakeMKV remux, creates an optional playback-friendly version, validates the result, and transfers only the completed files into the Jellyfin library. The project page has the short version, and version 1.1.0 is available on GitHub.The Windows PC does the expensive partRipFoundry stages the complete job on the Windows machine.MakeMKV reads the disc…

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