On Jul 18, 2019, at 3:33 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote:

> My wife is on a purging kick, we have many DVD’s that she wants to send to 
> others but I would lie to RIP them to my hard drive before letting them go.
> 
> What do you suggest?

There’s free software to do this.

This depends on the source of the DVDs. If they are not commercial DVDs, 
they’ll likely not be copy protected and Handbrake <https://handbrake.fr/> will 
work to copy them to MP4 format on your hard drive. If they’re commercial copy 
protected DVDs, Handbrake alone won’t do the job because of the CSS copy 
protection. You’ll have to install a helper for Handbrake called libDVDCSS 
<https://www.macxdvd.com/mac-dvd-video-converter-how-to/libdvdcss-mac-download.htm>
 to get that copy of Spider-Man onto your hard drive.

There’s not-free software to do it too.

The easiest solution is to throw a little money at the problem. Mac DVD Ripper 
Pro <https://www.macdvdripperpro.com/> is a easy-to-use GUI front end for 
Handbrake+libDVDCSS, with some nice custom enhancements. It’s on sale right now 
for about $25. This is what I use to put movies on my MacBook Pro for long 
plane flights.

L^2


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Lee Larson
[email protected]

‌It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think 
that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was 
us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly 
never thought of myself as one of Them. No one ever thinks of themselves as one 
of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things. — ‌Terry 
Pratchett
‌Jingo‌




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