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I'm currently using RipIt to archive and store my DVDs digitally so the DVD media can go into a box in storage.

Obviously these image files are quite large, essentially the same size as the DVD. Is it possible to reasonably compress these? Also, what's the best way of storing them (e.g. online, HDD, RAID).

I use OS X Lion on all my machines at home.

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The video and audio on DVDs are already compressed! If you want to reduce the size of these video and audio files, you will have to transcode them, i.e. decode the MPEG2 and then encode using a more compact codec. – sawdust Jan 4 at 6:46
Yeah that's pretty much what I figured as well. Just thought I would ask in case I was missing something. – Kyle Hayes Jan 4 at 13:14
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