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How to Choose Best DVD Ripper for Mac?

How to Choose Best DVD Ripper for Mac?

If you happen want to rip DVD to what you want, you must need a tool like DVD Ripper, but you want to accomplish the task without any cost, that’s mean free. Good news, you come the right place, this article will show you the best Mac DVD rippers.

Free is good? Many people prefer free software rather than have to pay for it. But most of the time the free dvd rippers can help you to rip a normal DVD but when it comes to the protected or encrypted discs, the freeware software is unable to do it. That is why we recommend both the free as well as paid DVD rippers.

But before we look at those DVD rippers, it’s good to know the common features that you can found on most DVD ripping tools:



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Let us Check How to Choose Best DVD Ripper for Mac?

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Following are the key features a great Mac DVD ripper should have:

  • Designed for Mac OS X and Windows
    A professional DVD Ripper usually support both Windows and Mac including Win7/8/10 and for Mac PowerPC and Mac Intel (include Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard) users.
  • Rip copy-protected DVDs:

A great Mac DVD ripper is able to rip the commercial discs including the CSS, region code, and other latest DVD movies in the market.

  • Rip DVD to video and audio:

A powerful Mac DVD ripper software to rip DVD to regular video files such as MP4, AVI, MOV, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV, etc on Mac or PC. And it includes the features of DVD audio ripper that can rip DVD audio to MP3, M4A, AAC, AC3, ASF, etc.

  • Support all regular portable devices:

Rip DVD to play on mobile devices like iPad, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, Samsung, Sony, Zune, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, Creative Zen, Archos, PMP, Smart Phone, Pocket PC, Cell Phone, MP4 Player, MP3 player, and many other video and audio players.

  • Select DVD subtitle and audio track:

Allows you to select any available subtitle and audio track on DVD. The good DVD Ripper software for Mac is smartly designed in setting target subtitle’s position in output movie’s picture.

  • Video editing:

Good quality Mac DVD Rippers allows you to do some editing like trim, or crop DVD video to remove black sides, adding or removing watermark, etc.

  • Merge file and convert either by chapters or selected at will:

It allows you to merge and convert selected titles or chapters into one file. You can choose to rip DVD on Mac with entire movie or just one or several chapters at will or just choose to convert a segment of the DVD movie by selecting the beginning point.

  • Capture pictures from video:

Using the DVD ripper program for Mac, you can capture pictures by clicking the snapshot button while previewing the movie.

  • Easy to use and fast speed:

It is a very easy to use the Mac DVD Ripper with fast ripping speed. With its intuitive and easy interface, all settings are available in the interface and sub menu. You may pause, stop or continue the conversion at anytime you like. You may preview the audio or video files you want to convert.

Top-rated Free and Paid Mac DVD Rippers:

1) Handbrake

HandBrake is an open-source multiplatform DVD Ripper for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Now, with the new version of HandBrake, you can convert almost any video files. Handbrake is not limited to DVDs it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. Moreover, the HandBrake’s video quality is enhanced dramatically through the use of psycho visual rate distortion and adaptive quantization.

Pros: Totally free.

Cons: Have a complex interface, not easy to use.

2) MacX DVD Ripper Pro

This is the best and fastest Mac DVD ripper in the market now. Imagine you can backup and DVD with lossless quality in just 5 minutes. The easy to use application allows you to use rip DVD to many popular output formats including MP4, AVI, FLV, MPEG4, etc. You also can edit the video like trim or merge separate video subtitles into a single file. Those video clips can be share directly to the social or video sharing sites like fb, youtube, etc. Free version is available and if you decided to purchase, it also come with a 30-day money back guarantee.

Pros: Fast ripping speed with rich features application.

Cons: Shareware program (Free version with limited features)

3) Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac

Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac is an all-in-one and easy to use DVD ripping software that designed for Mac users (support Mac OS X Leopard). This Mac DVD Ripper can help you copy DVD to computer and rip DVD to various video formats (including MP4, AVI, M4V, MOV, 3GP, MPG, FLV) and audio formats (MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, OGG, APE, etc.) so you can easily rip DVD movies to iPhone/iPod/Zune/PSP/Apple TV/Cell Phone and other devices on Mac OS X. Now you can have a try to convert DVD to F4V Mac, convert DVD to AAC Mac, good news, this page provides the free downloaded version.

Pros: Professional; Easy to use; Free Download

Cons: Need to pay for the full version.

 4) Mac The Ripper (Both Free and Paid Version)

MacTheRipper is a free DVD Ripper for Mac user (until the version 2.6.6). It can extract commercial DVD movies to your hard drive, minus all the copy protections and region controls put in place by DVD publishers. You can then use various tools to burn the movie back to DVD-R for use in DVD players, or convert the movie to different formats for playback with a variety of devices. MacTheRipper is intended to backup DVDs you have legally purchased for personal use. Any copyright-infringing activity you choose to perpetrate using this application is illegal, immoral, and beyond our control.

Pros: Free for older version (Only supports until Max OS X 10.6 Leopard and older).

Cons: The latest version 4.1 is not free and it features is not that powerful.

Conclusion:

The dvd ripping tools recommended here are some of the most reliable softwares available. If you prefer the free tools, you can get the Handbrake or MacTheRipper. Those are for beginners that try to learn how to rip a dvd.

If you are serious and committed to get the ripping jobs done, I strongly recommend you get the MacX DVD Ripper Pro or Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac. Both programs will cost you some money, but it will bring you some powerful functions at an affordable price. You also can trial the rippers for free before committed to buy it.

Author’s Bio:

Powell Wong, he is a writer of computer software related topics which are available on the internet and runs his own blog, www.dvd2dvd.org, a site aimed to help people to choose the correct and most reliable audio video software.

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