How do I rip DVDs to my hard drive
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What is the best way to rip DVDs to hard drive?
"I heard from my friend that watching DVD disks frenquently on Mac will cause damege to CD-ROM. Thus I wanna rip a large number of DVD movies to hard drive to protect CD-ROM of my PC. How to rip DVDs to hard drive? " |
iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac makes the conversion of DVD to hard drive a breeze!
When you wanna rip DVDs to hard drive on Mac, you may encounter the problem that the DVD disk is CSS encrypted which means that you can't rip DVD directly to hard drive. What should you do now? Fortunately, iSkysoft releases the most practical Mac DVD to hard drive ripper - iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac to help you rip DVDs to hard drive on Mac easily.
With this award-winning Mac DVD to hard drive ripper, you will become the expert in ripping DVD, encrypted or decrypted, to hard disk, to iPod, iPhone 3G, PSP etc fashionable players, to porpular videos and audios e.g. MOV, AVI, MP3, ACC etc with hightest visual and sound quality. Immerse yourself in the DVD movie paradise!
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Key features of iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac:
- Video editing
The Mac DVD to hard drive ripper customizes your video by cropping the screen size, adding artistic effects, adjusting saturation/brightness/contrast, changing the subtitle color/position, and adding picture/text watermarks.
- Output file size
Specify the output file size with the built-in Bitrate Calculator to conveniently fit a whole DVD movie into your multimedia device under the help of Mac DVD to hard drive ripper.
- Batch DVD converting mode

This powerful Mac DVD to hard drive ripper rips a single DVD files to various formats simultaneously.
- Run the DVD video converter in background
Conserve CPU resources by letting this Mac DVD to hard drive ripper run in the background, thus maximizing performance for other programs.
- Output parameter settings
Change parameter settings like video/audio quality, bit rate, frame rate, sample rate, and etc. to get your desired video file.
- Auto-Actions after Tasks Completes
Choose from automatic shut down, hibernate, stand by, or quit after the Mac DVD to hard drive ripper completes its tasks.
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Guide: How to rip DVDs to hard drive
iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac is the practical and powerful Mac DVD Ripper which provides you easy-to-use interface and powerful functions for you to convert DVD movies to videos & audios and portable devices like iPhone, iPod, PS3, Xbox 360 etc as easy as pie. Now, Download Intel or Download PowerPC Version to experience the magical effect by yourself.
To rip DVDs to hard drive, you should do the following preparation:
- The DVD movie you want to copy;
- iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac on your Mac computer.
Initialize the program and add DVD file
After running this Mac DVD to hard drive ripper, click Load DVD or Load IFO button, select a DVD files in the dialog box that opens, and load it. The Loaded DVD video information will be showed in the file list, such as source and original length etc will be showed in the file list.
Tip: Select a video file in the file list, click Play button in the video preview window. When the video jumps to the image you like, click Snapshot button, to store the image in the snapshot folder.
Select and customize the output format
At the top of the Preview window, you can find the following output setting options:
Filename: Name the output file for the current title/chapter.
Subtitle: Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French etc.
Audio: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.
At the bottom of the main window, you can select the output formats:

Click "Format" drop-down button, then a new Window props up as below. You select the formats you need. For example, we select the MOV video format as the output format. Then click "Browse" button to select a destination folder in the window that opens, click OK. Set Video and audio solutions: If you want to customize the output video quality, you can click the ˇ°Settingsˇ± button to open the Settings window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc. You can set audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate and encoder on the ˇ°Settingsˇ± interface. 
Tip: The Mac DVD to hard drive ripper also supports to merge the files in the file list. To do this, please highlight all files needed to merge in the file list and click Merge into one file button on the toolbar, all selected files will be merged into one file and added to the file list.
Start to rip DVDs to hard drive
After finishing the above settings, check the needed file to convert in the file list, click button to start ripping DVDs to hard drive on Mac. You can view the progress of ripping DVDs to hard drive on Mac from the progress bar at the bottom of the window.
After following the above basic operation and optional steps, you can easily rip DVDs to hard drive to any kind of format and enjoy anytime you like. So fast speed, so easy to use steps, so clear interface, all the features give you a good impression, now get the full version to enjoy it!
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System Requirements
| Operating system: |
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger and 10.5 X Leopard on iMac, MacBook, Mac Pro |
| Processor: |
1G Hz or above Intel processor |
| RAM: |
512 MB physical RAM (memory) or more |
| Free Hard Disk: |
12.47MB space for installation |
| Others: |
1024*768 or higher resolution display |
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