RipIt yanks your DVDs right off the disc

Well... I had high hopes for this app. It has crashed part way through any DVD I have tried to rip. Maybe I have tried all 8 DVDs that this program doesn't work on??

Is there a product for the Mac that will do a Disc to Disc copy removing the copy protection. I need this to make copies of childrens DVD's that I can let the grandkids use without worrying about damage? They scratch them then I can just burn another copy for them to use when they are overnighting at my house. If not what can be used to burn a double-layer copy of the ripped file?

I've been using the trail for a couple of days now and it seems like a really nice program.

I know that you've said that Handbrake and the DVD player can see the resulting file/bundle (Which they do) .. but what about Front Row? That doesn't seem to detect the file/bundle as a DVD to play. Is that right or am I doing something stupid?

Thanks :)

This app s*cks:
- It's not free
- it can't handle Sony BMG DVDs
- it doesn't support language selection and
- it didn't even shrink to 4.3GB

So what's the deal for 18.99 Dollar???

Just take the free Fairmount and DVD2OneX or the free Handbrake.

All the app does is copy the VIDEO_TS folder from the DVD to your hard drive, wrapping in a different doc. Open the package contents of their generated document.

when is there going to be a mac application that does everything in one step.

1.Decrypt DVD
2.Shrink to fit on 4.7gb disc
3.Burn shrinked image to disk

There are a ton of solutions for this in Windows but nothing I have found to do it on my Mac.

On the contrary, MTR 2.6.6 will not work with many (if not most) of the newer region 1 releases. MTR 3.0 beta has more luck, but the developer can't seem to make up his mind if he's freeware/shareware/commercial these days.

That being said, if you're lucky enough to be working with discs outside R1-2 then MTR 2.6.6 will still work most of the time.

To clarify Handbrake's removal of DVD decryption, fear not. While it's true that libdvdread (which handles decryption) is no longer built into the app, it DOES make use of the same library supplied with VLC if you have it installed.

As for ph0ust's unrippable snowboarding DVD, the problem may come from bad authoring/premastering rather than copy protection... Have you tried one of the recent Handbrake snapshots? Another alternative is a feature only extraction using DVD2OneX - DTOX has a good track record with fixing badly mastered DVDs.

We regularly rip ~8gb discs in under 8 minutes, averaging about 20MB/sec over the rip. It's not for the feint of heart, but the firmware in the drives that ship with most macs (especially the Pros) can be patched to remove both "RipLock" -- which is basically an intentional slow-down of the process -- and region protection.

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I would buy this Ripit if the price was around $10 for what it does now... I've been using the trial version and really like it. I've also used Mac the Ripper, which is good, but some DVD just won't rip with it. I do quite often use fairmount and DVDRemasterPro a lot on my mac pro, it's super quick.

*sidenote* I don't know what type of computer you are using... but I can rip a 7.9gb DVD on my macbook and it takes about 19 minutes.