Click the Source button in the upper left-hand corner and choose your DVD drive from the list. Insert the DVD you want to rip, and open Handbrake. This ensures that even if your DVD gets damaged, your movies are still somewhere safe. Here, we'll show you how to rip DVDs with Handbrake for further storing on your hard drive, or you can also upload them to Google drive, Dropbox, Plex, etc. Fortunately, there are many programs out there that can do the job.
If you're in this situation, the best way againt DVD damage or for convenient management is ripping. You have got a shelf full of DVDs and the disks just sit there until they're needed but only found the movies are hard to find or even can't be read anymore.