My Current DVD Rip Process

So I'm ripping a few DVDs so that I can share them via iTunes (on my iPad, iPhone and via AppleTV.)

This is pretty trivial but I figured I'd outline it in case somebody else wants to give it a shot.

Using Homebrew I install both MakeMKV and Handbrake.  (Yes, I know I could probably use ffmpeg for the second part or the Handbrake CLI but whatever.)

The first step is to rip the DVD using MakeMKV which creates an MKV file.  Load the DVD and in MakeMKV click on the DVD drive and give it time to scan.  Once that's done you can then click on the 'Make MKV' icon in the upper right and let it do its work.

The second step is where I get hung up.  MKV is a fine format but it's not great for the Apple ecosystem.  What you need to do is get the video remuxed to h.264 and the audio to AAC format.  I was playing around with ffmpeg for what felt like entirely too long so I just opened up Handbrake, select the file and ripped it to the best format based on the source.  Since these weren't HD and they were native at 720 and around 30 fps that's what I converted them to.

I then copied the finished file into iTunes.  Once there they tend to show up in 'Home Movies.'  I clicked on the 'Get Info' and updated them with the movie title, director, cover art, even added a short description for a couple of them and changed the type from 'Home Movie' to 'Movie.'

Now when I'm in AppleTV with home sharing on I can see all of the movies that I've ripped that I'm sharing from my iMac.  I even tweaked the Home Sharing so I can see which computer things are being shared from.