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Best DVD ripper for dummies?

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danmc00

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Oct 29, 2009
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I have been using Handbrake 0.9.8 for Mac OSC.6, but it hasn't been working on the latest movies I have tried to rip. All i want to do is rip the movie so i can put it on my hard drive to watch later on Apple TV or iPad. Is there a good free "ripper" out there that you would suggest other than handbrake? Or am i doing something wrong with Handbrake? I tried to rip World War Z and Now you See Me tonight and neither one of them will scan the DVD disk correctly.

Thanks for the help.
 
If you just want to rip a DVD to have a VIDEO_TS Folder that you can feed into HandBrake, install MacPorts, then install "vobcopy".

If you cannot deal with Terminal commands, you would have to learn those.

Regarding ripping in general. It's DVD drive dependent.

I bought a 39 Euro external DVD burner from Amazon, that can read most DVD's. Internal drives might choke more often.
 
definitely not ripping bluRays. i have done well over 75 movies, but it seems this just started happening lately.
 
I've found that when handbrake fails, as it sometimes does in this never ending cat and mouse copy protection game the studios subject us to, I can get makemkv to work. It's a 2 step process and involves using over 6 GB of disk space for the mkv file but it gets the job done.
 
Best rippers for Dummies

More can be found on the Windows side but for Mac -

Older DVDs - Mac the Ripper (free)
In general - DVDfab (purchase)
MakeMkv (purchase)

I would suggest going to DVDFab and MakeMKV forums on respective sites and look at what the users have to say and also their wiki for how to use.
 
I think I figured it out

I ran into a similar problem. Try downloading a free copy of MakeMkv and ripping a copy with that first. It will produce a folder with several files. Then run handbrake and use that file folder as the source.

Hope this helps.
 
Same issue

I had the same issue with World War Z, the first DVD I could not rip. When I scanned it, there was no title with a movie-length file on it.

Usually if I have problems scanning the source, I go to the DVD player and find the title number, then scan just that title in HandBrake. But when I tried that on WWZ, it says something about "no content" being there.

So, if you MakeMKV on WWZ, then Handbrake that, did that work?
 
I found this thread, and was having the same issue with WWZ. Did MakeMKZ and then Handbrake. Worked fine. Thanks!
 
My favorite is, iVi from the App store. It has successfully ripped almost everything I've thrown at it, with the exception of Disney movies and 300. The benefit to iVi is that it also will import the metadata and include cover albums so your iTunes is nice looking (maybe an OCD thing of mine).

$3.99 but worth it for me just for the metadata cleanup.
 
rob3988 said:
I ran into a similar problem. Try downloading a free copy of MakeMkv and ripping a copy with that first. It will produce a folder with several files. Then run handbrake and use that file folder as the source.

Hope this helps.
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Worked perfectly for me, too. Thanks!
 
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