subject: Mac The Ripper - Rip Dvds On Mac At No Cost [print this page] In all reality, I am a movie fan who cannot imagine my day without watching a film whether it is a comedy or action type. Following this hobby of watching movies made me an expert in recording, editing, burning and also ripping DVDs. Video files are complicated files because they usually contain a huge amount of digital data. So to handle any video file whether by burning, editing or ripping, you need sophisticated software that can do the heavy duty job. Indeed, having tens of Discs encourage me to search for a way to rip those legal purchased discs on my computer and watch them directly from my computer or even convert them to be compatible with any other device. This article is focusing on Mac the Ripper as free and great software for ripping DVDs. Keep reading to learn more.
When it comes to watching movies on DVDs, it is really boring as you may have a stack of DVDs and to watch certain film, you have to find the DVD disc and then insert in the DVD drive. The worst, it is likely to discover that the disc is damaged and then you realize that you have lost your disc and your money as well. So, the best solution is to rip your favorite and valuable discs to your hard disk. Of course this is not such an easy process as the discs usually are protected with many ways. They are CSS encrypted, Macrovision protection, RCE region checking. Additionally, some DVDs are ARccOS copy-protected DVDs.
The good news is MacTheRipper is a DVD ripper ; simply it is an extractor. It has the ability to read the CSS encryption and then remove it. In addition it can overcome the Macro vision protection. It makes the disc region free because it actually removes the RCE region checking. And when it comes to the discs that are ARccOS copy-protected DVDs, it copy them easily and quickly. All in all, MacTheRipper is an essential application to backup our legally-purchased DVDs onto our computers. It is a good tool that allows us to do many things with our DVDs. Once we rip any disc onto the hard disk, we can convert the output file to any video format so that it becomes compatible with many other devices such as iPhone, iPad, iPod, Zune and etc.
If you are running Mac OS X Lion or willing t upgrade your operating system, bear in mind, the upgrade may result in some issues and the most prominent issue is the free Mac the Ripper. Mac the ripper does not work on Mac OS X Lion! This is because Lion system no longer supports Rosetta which is required by Mactheripper to work properly.
