MacTheRipper

CSS means Content Scramble System, and is the encryption used by a lot of commercial DVD movie disks, although newer DVDs use something different for encryption. Most hardware DVD players have a CSS decryption module built-in. The DeCSS is a reverse-engineered code which breaks that encryption. It's available through some software such as MacTheRipper (MTR), and others....

out the DVD and drop it into the tray of your optical drive of your computer. You will have to RIP the DVD using MacTheRipper or Handbrake. If you want to communicate between your camcorder and compuer via FireWire, you will have to use your miniDV camcorder instead. ...

After further reviewing my actions, I realized that this error only occurred on rips where I had used MacTheRipper to extract the main feature only. On rips where I extracted the entire disc I had no problems. I wonder what file MTR is failing to grab. ...

AFAIK, there are no commercial applications designed to edit finalized DVDs. As stated above, you will have to use an app like Handbrake or MacTheRipper to transcode them into an editable format. ...

For backup, I assume? :) Handbrake will rip DVDs to movie files, iPod video files You can use MacTheRipper to rip off the VIDEO_TS folder, but you'll need to buy Toast to burn these files to a readable DVD.

01. Select the 'Apple, System Preferences...' menu item. The 'System Preferences' window will appear. 02. Click once on the 'CD & DVDs' utility icon button. 03. From the 'When you insert a blank DVD:' pop up menu, select the 'Open other application' menu item. A drop down browse (open) sheet will appear. 04. Navigate to, and select, 'Roxio Toast'; then click the 'Choose'...

Sadly, using Popcorn or Toast, or most other apps, you really only get two choices: movie only, or full-disc copy. All the extras, or none at all. You can get around this by extracting each of the movies / episodes on a DVD to MP4 format, then make your own new menu in Toast Titanium - or at a pinch iDVD. However, this process is just too plain fiddly to be bothered with...

The one for the Mac to Quicktime is HandBrake. Also for the Mac the straight DVD to computer backup is called MacTheRipper.

You don't need MacTheRipper AFAIK. HandBrake does that job good enough. ...

MacTheRipper is freeware. See my link. Toast is commercial, but I think there are freeware disc burners that will allow you to burn DVD in UDF (video DVD) format. I believe YuBurner is one, although I've never personally used it for this task.