Comments on: Getting your DVDs onto your Mac, iPhone, iPod, or Apple TV

By: Teach QuickTime to Play Any Video Format

Teach QuickTime to Play Any Video Format — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:32:24 +0000

[...] the fantastic VLC application that I covered in my post on converting your DVDs to QuickTime files. VLC is like a competitor to QuickTime Player and can play nearly any video file you throw at it, [...]

By: dudude

dudude — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:30:37 +0000

You can also get Clone2Go DVD Ripper for Mac to help you convert DVD to Mac, iPod, iPad, iPhone, etc.

http://www.clone2go.com

By: How to Extract Audio from a DVD or Video File in Mac OS X

How to Extract Audio from a DVD or Video File in Mac OS X — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 07:51:05 +0000

[...] you don’t have experience using Handbrake to rip DVDs, you can read my tutorial on using Handbrake to convert your DVDs. This will tell you everything you need to know to convert the DVD to a video file. Once you have a [...]

By: Liam

Liam — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:39:22 +0000

My advice to MTR was only referring to the ripping process. I find it the easiest to isolate the sources on the DVD that I want to compress/convert/burn — maybe I just want the Main Feature without the rest of the DVD junk or maybe I want to isolate one episode of a DVD that has multiple television episodes. After using MTR you can use DVD Shrink, RedKawa Videora, Toast, HandBrake, VisualHub, whatever to compress/convert/burn.

I have used MacTheRipper on over 300 DVDs (about 60 in the last 2 months were newly released material) without fail on various machines — PB G4 Ti, PB G4 Al, Intel MacBook, Intel MacBook Pro, Intel Mac Mini, PowerPC Dual G5. I simply insert the DVD, leave MTR in Disc mode, and push “GO”. With one button push, I have the ripped DVD onto my desktop and can do whatever I want with it. Why not rip a DVD to your desktop BEFORE beginning the compression/conversion to eliminate DVD spin time? I have never had a DVD fail, unless it was scratched beyond belief. I am in the United States. Could you issues be due to NTSC vs PAL or region codes? Could you be having problems with MTR 2.x? I used to use MTR 2.x all the time without issue but moved onto MTR 3.0 at some point. Sometimes MTR does say that a DVD is protected, but I just Push “OK” and go right past the message and continue ripping. To say that MTR doesn’t work is ridiculous.

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:00:18 +0000

I also suggest handbrake (with VLC installed). You don’t have to jump through hoops to get it like Mac the Ripper.

But my absolute favorite is RipIt.

By: michael

michael — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 16:16:42 +0000

Liam – MacTheRipper does not work for me – rejects most disks with various error messages.

Sam – any idea how to choose from the different formats? can’t figure that one out.

By: Sam

Sam — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 14:25:36 +0000

Use handbrake! It’s amazing Mac the ripper doesn’t work

By: Liam

Liam — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:30:38 +0000

Michael,

I would suggest using MacTheRipper 3.0r14 in non-Disc mode to select streams. For instance, it allows you to rip a single episode off a disc with multiple episodes. It allows you to nip out the extras (DVD Menu, Previews, etc.). In your case you might have to experiment a little to nip out the 4:3 version in favour of the 16:9 version.

By: michael

michael — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:20:14 +0000

can you explain how to get wide screen version when DVD contains both wide screen and full screen?

By: karrysony

karrysony — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:24:36 +0000

good ! I useipod to mac software Transfer and backup iPod/iTouch files to computer hard disk and iTunes directly