How To Rip DVD In Windows, Mac or Linux

handbrake dvd rip

You got a DVD, or any DVD quality video that you want to rip and you need an application that handles all kinds of output; whether a iPhone/iPod compatible format, Apple TV, normal TV, PSP, etc. You are indeed looking for Handbrake. Handbrake is a open-source, GPL-licensed DVD-MP4 converter that you can download and use cross platform, regardless of Windows, Mac or Linux. Best of all, it’s free.

Handbrake is fairly easy to use. All you need to do is insert the DVD (or manually locate your source), select the format of output and click ‘Play‘. The application will do the rest.

Supported sources:

Any DVD-like source: VIDEO_TS folder, DVD image or real DVD (encrypted or unencrypted, but protection methods other than CSS are not supported and must be handled externally with third-party software), and some .VOB and .TS files
PAL or NTSC
AC-3, DTS, LPCM or MPEG audio tracks

Outputs:

File format: MP4, MKV, AVI or OGM
Video: MPEG-4 or H.264 (1 or 2 passes or constant quantizer/rate encoding)
Audio: AAC, MP3, Vorbis or AC-3 pass-through (supports encoding of several audio tracks)

Comments

Jusdy J. June 1st, 2008

yup very true….i’ve been using this software all this time…..
hope another free good s/ware are in the making out there…especially for multimedia…+ the s/ware now will be improve…
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Wing Loon June 2nd, 2008

Awesome, adding this to my software list. Thanks HK, :)
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shoovi June 2nd, 2008

acala dvd rip works also fine
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Norman Ramsey June 29th, 2008

Tried the Linux CLI and the sucker dumped core on me:

Scanning title 1…
+ title 1:
+ vts 1, ttn 1, cells 0->16 (1001280 blocks)
+ duration: 01:27:24
+ size: 720×480, aspect: 1.33, 29.970 fps
+ autocrop: 0/0/0/0
+ chapters:
+ 1: cells 0->0, 50608 blocks, duration 00:04:25
+ 2: cells 1->1, 67942 blocks, duration 00:05:56
+ 3: cells 2->2, 53311 blocks, duration 00:04:39
+ 4: cells 3->3, 57108 blocks, duration 00:04:59
+ 5: cells 4->4, 90844 blocks, duration 00:07:56
+ 6: cells 5->5, 75079 blocks, duration 00:06:33
+ 7: cells 6->6, 65188 blocks, duration 00:05:41
+ 8: cells 7->7, 60330 blocks, duration 00:05:17
+ 9: cells 8->8, 61591 blocks, duration 00:05:22
+ 10: cells 9->9, 48552 blocks, duration 00:04:14
+ 11: cells 10->10, 84195 blocks, duration 00:07:21
+ 12: cells 11->11, 67508 blocks, duration 00:05:53
+ 13: cells 12->12, 3856 blocks, duration 00:00:20
+ 14: cells 13->13, 61437 blocks, duration 00:05:21
+ 15: cells 14->14, 83241 blocks, duration 00:07:16
+ 16: cells 15->15, 70190 blocks, duration 00:06:07
+ 17: cells 16->16, 300 blocks, duration 00:00:01
+ audio tracks:
+ 1, Unknown (LPCM)
+ 2, Unknown (DTS) (5.1 ch), 48000Hz, 1536000bps
+ subtitle tracks:
+ 1, Unknown (iso639-2: und)
[mpeg4 @ 0x85257f8]removing common factors from framerate
Encoding: task 1 of 1, 0.00 %Memory fault
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DVD Ripper July 17th, 2009

Aimersoft DVD Ripper is the most powerful one that I have used before. It has great power to rip DVD to video of all formats. You can free download here:
http://freedvdripper.org/dvdvideoconverter/dvd-ripper-aimersoft.html
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Kindour September 2nd, 2009

Here is the step by step guide about how to rip DVD and edit DVD on Windows:

http://www.softdiggs.com/howto/rip-dvd-and-edit-dvd.php
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Jessica October 30th, 2009

Handbrake is pretty good, you also can try other tools for that,
For Mac users: look this DVD Ripper for Mac tutorial
http://www.flash-video-soft.com/blog/?p=772
For Windows users: check this AVS Video Converter
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swapna October 30th, 2009

here are some more tools http://www.ceveni.com/2009/10/how-to-rip-and-decrypt-dvds-that-are.html to add to the list
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