Three Ways to Rip DVD to Mac

Most people already have their favorite movies and television shows on DVD, but you may need to rip those DVDs to your Mac computer instead of having to purchase shows and movies again in an iPod form. Learn to transfer DVD content to your Mac computer by following methods.

1. HandBrake
Handbrake is an open source DVD ripper which can only convert DVD's to MP4 and MKV, with support for iPhone, iPods, PSPs, Apple TVs, PS3s. But it only can rip standard DVDs that can be played by your DVD player if without the help of third party software, VLC media player, not the mention the Disney new copy protections. In addition it is not stable, sometimes even crash. And if you would like to upload a commercial or home-made DVD movie to youtube.com video sharing website or to your web page or blog, HandBrake can't help at all. MacX DVD Ripper Free Edition would be the HandBrake alternative to solve this problem.

2. VLC Media Player
VLC Media Player is a powerful tool for playing digital media files. Even though it's best known for playing a wide range of file formats, it has other hidden features that boost its functionality. One such feature is the ability to rip DVDs. The player won't let you rip uncompressed video files to your hard drive, but it will compress whatever movie you're watching and save it in MPG format.

3. MacTheRipper
MacTheRipper can breaks copy protection and rips DVD content, but it doesn't encode its rips to other formats. It just rips the DVD menu and all to your hard drive in VOB file. But it also needs a third party software to convert VOB to other formats.

You can found more dvd ripper software at free software download website.