Discarr is a self-hosted web UI that bridges disc rips (VIDEO_TS / BDMV / ISO) into Sonarr and Radarr. Scan a disc directory, map the titles to the right episodes or movies in the browser, and it handles the encode queue and arr notification.
Stack: Pure Node.js 18+, no npm packages, only built-in modules. Requires ffmpeg and ffprobe on the host; HandBrake optional. Docker image bundles both.
License: GPL-3.0.
Forgejo (primary): https://git.opensourcesolarpunk.com/Circuit-Forge/discarr GitHub (mirror): https://github.com/pyr0ball/discarr
Still early, issues and PRs welcome.
I’ve been trying to get on ripping my dvd library, but some of this stuff flies over my head:
Can you give me a gist on what a “remux” is & why you prefer it over encoding it? From the context it seems like it’s similar to lossless vs lossy codecs for audio?
A remux is a fully lossless video file, typically a MKV, that is just the video streams from a DVD/Bluray wrapped in an MKV container. It’s not a new encoding, it’s the original video, in its original codec, fully lossless.
I personally like knowing that I’m watching the best possible quality of any given media, without any extra processing. Most people probably wouldn’t immediately notice the difference between a high quality encode and a remux, but I’m a quality snob.
Thank you for the explanation! Makes sense to me.
Just to clear it up. The video won’t be lossless, as the DVD is already in a lossy format (mpeg2), but the conversion from DVD to mkv won’t add anything more as it just copies the data without transcoding.
Yeah, that’s a clearer way of saying it. I usually think of the highest quality commercially available version as being lossless, since the raw files or negatives are almost never accessible to the public (wouldn’t that be awesome??). But yeah, every DVD/Bluray is still technically just a disc with lossy video files that the studio encoded.
Yes, of course. Sorry, that was just my OCD peeking through :)