DVDFab is 30 day trialware, but the DVD RIPPING portion remains after the trial expires. Keeping with the original and to me only definition of RIP, read up on Automatic Ripping Machine which allows you use multiple drives to RIP at once: Īlso get DVDFab as you'll likely come across copy protected DVDs that require more than Handbrake to bypass. What you're doing with Handbrake is RIPPING and Encoding, which takes much longer than the 10-15 minutes a proper RIP does. The original definition is an exact bit for bit copy of the contents of the DVD less copy protection. Here’s how to rip a DVD with VLC on your Mac: with a DVD in the drive, launch VLC, go to the File menu and select “Open Disc”, from there you can select “Convert” and adjust the starting positions to the right chapter, click ‘save’ and wait a while for it to rip! You can also get VLC from the Developer home.Redefine your definition of RIP. VLC includes a simple DVD ripper, it’s not ideal simply because there are better ones out there (think handbrake) but if you’re in a bind VLC works. You can pick up Handbrake for Mac at the Developer homeĪnother option is VLC. It will take a while to rip the DVD depending on the speed of your Mac but the ripped DVD will appear on your Desktop when it’s done.

Select the file format you want to export to and the destination (default is mp4 to desktop), and rip!.

If HandBrake doesn’t automatically find the DVD just click on File > Open Source and manually select the DVD.

Tip: be sure to select the proper title because if there’s any special features or extras on the DVD you could inadvertently rip that instead of the actual movie.

Handbrake will then scan the DVD disk and read all the chapters and titles.

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