MacTheRipper

You can use MacTheRipper or Handbrake to rip movie files from DVDs created on your camera. ...

on the disc surfaces the name's written xxxxA and xxxxB. What I did was to try the whole thing on a different Mac so that neither the computer nor its copy of MacTheRipper "knew" what I'd done previously. Sneaky, huh? ...

If you have any problems RIPing a DVD, clean it very carefully with optical wipes and or use MactheRipper to extract it first, though this adds to the time to convert it. ...

To get the main feature in a single .vob file, select the "Mode" tab and select "Title Only Extraction" from the pull-down menu. MacTheRipper will select the longest feature as the main feature ("MP"), although you can select other features. You can rename the resulting .vob file as an .mpeg file because it is an MPEG-2 file. (Does anyone know if there are there exceptions,...

Every time I rip a movie it comes out as 4 or more seperate files. First off, how do i make it just one file and how do I get it to be a format other than .VOB? Thanks

If it has any kind of copy protection you might have to rip the DVD first with Mactheripper, then use Handbrake's iPod preset to convert the vob files to mpeg.

the DMCA only applies to USA -- so if you're in other parts of the world this may well be perfectly legal. There are 2 ways to rip a DVD, shrink it (ie. backing up a commercial DVD to a DVD-R, with all menus, extras etc in tact), or rip video files (eg to (MP4, AVI, H.264 etc) 1) shrinking it - Use MacTheRipper to copy the video files to a hard disk (use full disk...

Mac the Ripper (but it hasn't been updated in awhile) Handbrake (rip & export to most any Apple device in one stroke) Plus many others. Good Luck.

Handbrake is great, but only if you're looking to convert the DVD to MPEG4 (like Divx or something). If you're looking to make an exact copy, you can copy the DVD straight to your hard drive with MacTheRipper. You can then burn the resulting VIDEO_TS folder to a new DVD using Roxio Toast. There are probably some free burning apps you could use, too, but I don't know which ones...

MacTheRipper can rip files off the DVD, but I don't know how you would go about adding subtitles? A quick search reveals methods for Windows, but not mac. If you want to add subtitles manually, you could rip via handbrake, and add via Quicktime Pro/iMovie/FCP, then re-burn.