Want to rip everything on a particular disc? There’s a button for that. In HandBrake choose File > Open Source (Title Specific), select your DVD, and enter that title number in the box and click Open Title. Then choose Go > Title from the menu bar, and find the title with a chek mark next to it. In that case, launch Apple’s DVD Player application, and navigate through the warnings, ads, and previews until you’re playing the main feature. HandBrake quitting or crashing when it scans your DVD, or aĭVD with 99 titles of almost the same length, you’ve run into copy-protection scheme meant to thwart ripping. From there you can scroll through ten still images from the title or, if that’s not good enough, choose to encode and watch 15 to 240 seconds of the title (in 15-second increments).īender’s the king, baby! Yep, that’s the episode I wanted. Want to make sure you’ve chosen the right title before you start encoding? Pick the one you think you want, then click the Preview Window button and a new window opens up. Generally speaking, the title with the longest duration is the DVD’s main feature. Once the scan is complete, HandBrake chooses what it thinks is the main title, but you can click the pop-up menu next to Title and choose the item you want to encode.

Choose your DVD and click Open, and HandBrake then scans the DVD for the titles it contains. By default, the app opens a dialog box and ask you to select the DVD mounted on your Mac (you can turn off auto-prompting in the General pane of HandBrake’s preferences if you prefer). Now insert your DVD into your Mac’s DVD drive and launch HandBrake. (Both can also do some video conversion.) Step two: Insert a DVD and pick what to rip Some good choices are The Little App Factory’s $25

One more thing…Īlternatively-and especially if you encounter problems getting HandBrake to work with your DVDs-you can use a separate app to decrypt your DVDs, leaving you with a Video_TS folder containing unencrypted files that HandBrake can then deal with easily. Run that installer, and it will put libdvdcss where it belongs on your drive. Version 1.2.12, although you can always find the latest version The first time you launch HandBrake and attempt to scan a DVD, the software will inform you that you need additional decrypting software and will offer to send you to a page where you can download the libdvdcss installer (currently

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