Converting old home movie DVDs into a private streaming site

A relative sent me a few DVDs containing really old home videos that were at one point saved to DVDs. The problem is, I don't own a DVD player, and neither do most people in 2026. These discs were just sitting in a box, slowly becoming unplayable, holding memories nobody could actually watch (which is a real shame). So I bought a cheap USB DVD drive on Amazon (~$25, an Amicool A11), and figured I'd rip the discs and put the videos somewhere my family could get to them. I'm a vibe coder at this point so I used Claude Code and put together a workflow to rip the discs and upload the videos to private streaming site my whole family can pull up on their phones. Here's how we did it. What you need On the software side, everything is free CLI tools installed through Homebrew: ddrescue for ripping, ffmpeg for video conversion, and wrangler for uploading to Cloudflare. Claude Code handled the commands — I mostly described what I wanted and swapped discs. Step one: make a safe copy of each disc