I am curious if VortexBox (www.vortexbox.org) the open source movie/music ripper built around MakeMKV on a Linux system could be turned into a Docker App or if this would be best run thorough VM?

 

Any advice or direction is greatly appreciateda

Well, it's an iso, so it'd certainly be easier to run in a VM.  I'm no docker expert, not even past a docker noob, but my guess is that a VM would be the way forward.

 

Does look a cool app though, my first thought was I want one, but I can't really justify it for the very few cd's that my wife insists on buying, (she's adamant that she won't transfer to digital downloads - even though that's the only way possible in our house and cars that we can play them!  )

I was just checking out their site and it looks like it only does music? If it did Movies too I'd be all over it. I'd really love something that would let me pop in discs and it would automatically rip and tag whatever I throw at it. Even data... then I could gather up all the random discs I have and just start feeding it to a computer.

 

But to answer your question, a VM with optical drive pass through is probably your best bet here. I don't think a Docker would cut it.

I was just checking out their site and it looks like it only does music? If it did Movies too I'd be all over it. I'd really love something that would let me pop in discs and it would automatically rip and tag whatever I throw at it. Even data... then I could gather up all the random discs I have and just start feeding it to a computer.

 

But to answer your question, a VM with optical drive pass through is probably your best bet here. I don't think a Docker would cut it.

 

I think by looking at the site it was originally just for music but now does movies as well, might be worth taking a closer look pinion..

I was just checking out their site and it looks like it only does music? If it did Movies too I'd be all over it. I'd really love something that would let me pop in discs and it would automatically rip and tag whatever I throw at it. Even data... then I could gather up all the random discs I have and just start feeding it to a computer.

 

But to answer your question, a VM with optical drive pass through is probably your best bet here. I don't think a Docker would cut it.

 

I think by looking at the site it was originally just for music but now does movies as well, might be worth taking a closer look pinion..

 

Thanks for the reply. It does indeed copy full bitrate BluRays using MakeMKV. It really is a fantastic piece of software. I have been running it on a dedicated celeron processor for some time now. I guess I need to spend some time figuring out the VM thing and getting it all to work together.

I'll probably take a stab at this in a VM as well.