DVD Ripping (copy DVD to hard drive) with vobcopy

[gotenks05]

Well, I have been using a mac for a long time now. I had problems with it, so I switched the OS to Ubuntu and liked the experience, except for the trouble I had updating my iPod touch, so now my Mac is running OS X Tiger again. Right Now, I'm having troubles on my Mac. In the past, I was able to download Mac the Ripper 2.6.6 and rip DVDs to my hard drive and send them through handbrake. Now, I cannot even download that program at all, which means I need another DVD ripper. From my time using Ubuntu 8.04 on a Mac, I have gotten used to using a command-line program called "vobcopy" it did pretty much what Mac the Ripper did and it was easy to use, so I decided to install it on my Mac OS. I got the dependency and the program installed without problems, but I don't want to type out the entire path to the program. I would like to run run just like it did on Ubuntu, which means I need to edit the PATH environment variables, which is where my question comes in. How do I add vobcopy as a command recognized by Mac OS X? I edited the file "~/.profile" and the file "~/.bashrc" and even the file "etc/paths" and restarted the terminal and each time I was not able to get it to work. Maybe I was doing it the wrong the way, but I have no idea about that. I entered

. /usr/local/bin/

and

. /usr/local/bin/vobcopy

and

PATH="/usr/local/bin/vobcopy"

and

PATH="/usr/local/bin/"

and

PATH="/usr/local/bin/vobcopy"

export PATH

What do I need to do to be able type something like

vobcopy -V

instead of needing to type something like

/usr/local/bin/vobcopy -V

each time I open a terminal window?

Update: Never mind, I figured out that I need to type this

PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin/
export PATH

into ~/.profile

 

[iAlexG]

Why not just use Handbrake? So good and rips straight to .m4v

 

[ian.maffett]

Why not just use Handbrake? So good and rips straight to .m4v

Good point. I was thinking this during the whole read.

 

[gotenks05]

Good point. I was thinking this during the whole read.

It has been stated on the official site that it is best to use a program like Mac the Ripper, in order to get eliminate things Handbrake can't handle. Yes, handbrake can handle DVDs directly, but if I rip it to the hard drive, I won't need to worry about the disc being stuck in the drive with my only option to be reboot my computer. Plus, if I were using HandBrakeCLI, it is much easier to have it ripped to the hard drive, because I can start a shellscript without inserting the actual disc.

Why not just use Handbrake? So good and rips straight to .m4v

look above. Also, If I have multiple DVDs, using the actual disc becomes a hinderance, especially if I were to queue each disc up in HandBrakeGUI all at once.