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by tehwebguy 4 days ago
What’s the $22 for, a DVD drive? I thought this was solved since Handbrake
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Yes, as the article states, the $22 is for buying a USB DVD drive. I don't think many PCs come with optical media readers these days.
How are you planning on getting the dvd to show up in handbrake?

Edit: I thought I was making a joke, you really weren’t thinking about pc’s not coming without dvd drives.

libdvdcss
It's been mostly solved since DeCSS
" -That meant I needed a separate consumer drive. So I bought one off of Amazon. Two day shipping, twenty two dollars, no-name brand, USB 3.0, plug and play,- "