Mac The Ripper - Dummy VOB

Which release of MTR are you running?

You can have it delete the dummy VOB's or pad them so that you can actually watch the rip. One or the other ought to work. However, you may just want to try Handbrake (+VLC) to rip DVD's now. It's free and, in my opinion works better.

Handbrake and VLC

blackfx35 said:

Thanks. I use Handbrake already to convert them, but not sure what VLC is. Where do I find that? Thanks

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Handbrake is seriously faster than Mac The Ripper - I mean we are talking 5 minutes max where MTR will take an hour on an older MacBook white - you might vave to download and install a dvd library item (that takes about 15 seconds - get the pkg version simple

VLC is open-source video player - will pretty much play anything...

blackfx35 said:

Thanks. I use Handbrake already to convert them, but not sure what VLC is. Where do I find that? Thanks

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VLC, in conjunction with Handbrake, will allow you encode straight from the DVD optical media, rather than the 2 step process of ripping with Mac the Ripper and then encoding with Handbrake. You just need VLC in your app folder for it to work.

Often you can encode a DVD with this when a ripping program fails.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-macosx.html

Oh, and there are Mac the Ripper 3 and 4. Mac the Ripper 3 is an intel app, whereas MtR2.66 is a PowerPC app that won't work on an intel mac without Rosetta which was stopped in OS X 10.7. Both MtR 3 and 4 are not available for official download, but MtR 3 is obtainable through unofficial channels.