Free DVD Ripping Software for Mac

How to choose free DVD Ripping Software for Mac?

If you are a movie fan who pays good money for your DVDs, the agonizing things came that they’re hardly the only format you need these days. And there are huge amount of free DVD ripping software for Mac on the market now. It is so hard for you to choose one because nobody can tell you which one is good or bad or which one is the most suitable for you. To choose the best free DVD ripping software for Mac, what need to be taken into consideration is the capacity to decrypt any DVD, the output format range, program stability, ripping speed, output quality, user customization, and user friendly level.

Here is a list of top three free DVD ripping software for Mac users and made a comparison among them. With these Mac DVD ripping software for free, you can backup DVD on Mac, keep them on your media server, and load them on your favorite portable player.

Handbrake 0.9.5 (New Release)

free DVD Ripping Software for Mac Handbrake

Handbrake is an open source of DVD-ripping tool with a strong emphasis on not just ripping media but recoding it for playback on computers, portable devices, and other non-disc based systems.

Pros:

Add presets for the iPhone 4 and the iPad, as well as the Apple TV 2

Handbrake 0.9.5 now also supports the Blu-ray format, it does not decrypt discs

Ease to use, even less finicky users can usually convert DVDs with just a single click

Cons:

Can be very slow on older machines

May have trouble with DVDs made using camcorders and other apps

The state of Blu-ray support on Mac remains weak due to Apple’s indifference towards the format.

It is available 32-bit and 64-bit versions for both OS X 10.5 and 10.6, but not PowerPC Macs.

MacX DVD Ripper Mac Free Edition

free DVD Ripping Software for Mac

MacX DVD Ripper Free Edition is all-in-one free DVD ripper for Mac to backup and rip any DVDs ((including commercial DVDs) for free on Mac OS to MOV, MP4, FLV, MPEG, iTunes

Pros:

It owns the ability of removing CSS, Sony ARccOS, UOPs, RCE, APS and Disney new copy protections.

It constantly upgrades to support latest copy protection.

Fully compatible with Power PC and Intel CPU Mac.

It enables you extract audio from DVD as ringtone, take snapshot you favor.

Cons:

You can't edit your DVD videos like crop, merge, add effects, etc.

Only support limited video and audio formats.

MacTheRipper 2.6.6

free DVD Ripping Software for Mac-Mactheripper

MacTheRipper is a DVD ripper (extractor). It removes CSS encryption, Macrovision protection, sets the disc's region to '0' for region-free, and is capable of removing RCE region checking.

Pros:

Fast and reliable.

The 'Mode' tab allows you to select your extraction mode, whether it's full disc, a certain chapter or a particular title.

Select regions

Cons:

Its interface will look a little confusing. Not user-friendly.

Future versions only available by private updates

In a word, all of them are good enough to help you deal with common DVD ripping. But if your need rip the newest copy protected DVD and get much more output video formats, MacX DVD Ripper Mac Free Edition will be an excellent choice for you.

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