Using an old program called DVD Backup, it can copy (not encode) a DVD in maybe 5 minutes. In comparison, I dug out my old 2004-ish vintage Powerbook G4 (1.67GHz), running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).

If I use handbrake to both copy and encode a DVD one at a time, it is still very slow, well over an hour.

It takes over 20 minutes for dvdbackup to copy the DVD, then Handbrake close to an hour. The problem I am running into is it is very slow, much slower than I think it should be. The reason I am doing it this way is to que up a bunch of movies, then encode them overnight. I use dvdbackup to copy the TS_VIDEO directory to the MacBook Pro, then use Handbrake to encode it. I am using a combination of a command line tool called dvdbackup and handbrake to encode the DVDs. I am running Mint 19.3 on a 2011 MacBook Pro with a 2.5 GHz i7 (Sandybridge), 4 cores, 16 GB RAM. I am trying to set up a media server, I am in the process of converting my DVD library into MP4 and importing them into my iTunes library.

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