Yes, as the article states, the $22 is for buying a USB DVD drive. I don't think many PCs come with optical media readers these days.

How are you planning on getting the dvd to show up in handbrake?

Edit: I thought I was making a joke, you really weren’t thinking about pc’s not coming without dvd drives.

It's been mostly solved since DeCSS

" -That meant I needed a separate consumer drive. So I bought one off of Amazon. Two day shipping, twenty two dollars, no-name brand, USB 3.0, plug and play,- "