A bit of mac-the-ripper help

Use Handbrake.

http://handbrake.m0k.org/

 

Handbrake keeps giving me files that won't play. I have the latest version too.
I just used Mencoder to rip a DVD a couple days ago.
Give Mencoder a try.

 

MacTheRipper only extracts the content from DVD's, it doesn't compress it. For that you will need another app. Check out Popcorn or DVD2One.

 

Go with DVD2One. I've used both, and Popcorn doesn't seem to be as good. Haven't had any issues with DVD2One and Popcorn often gives me error messages saying it "can't handle" the Video_TS folders coming from MacTheRipper.

Also, DVD2One is more flexible when choosing which components of the DVD you want to keep and which to discard. It also has the Joint Mode feature, which is nice for TV episodes... which you can't do with Popcorn.

 

From what I've read Popcorn has only reported problems if you extracted certain parts with MactheRipper. You have to do the whole DVD for it to work properly in Popcorn, at least for the time being.

jon

 

ok, that makes sense, but thats where another problem with Popcorn comes in...
When you extract the whole disc rather than just the main feature, Popcorn does not let you select which "main feature" to extract. Say the disc contains a 4x3 version and 16x9 version of the movie. Popcorn only lets you select "main feature" and there's no way to tell it which main feature you want.
This also happens if there are special features on the disc with long running times. Sometimes it will extract the special feature instead of the movie.