The higher quality the movie, the more space it will take on your hard drive. Next, you’ll need to decide the quality of your output file.

Under Destination, click Browse to pick where you want to place the movie after you’ve ripped it. You can also change which chapters you want to rip, if you only want part of the movie. By default, Handbrake will choose the movie, but if you want to rip any special features or deleted scenes, you can change the target you want to rip here. Once your DVD is open, head to the “Title” dropdown box and choose which title you want to rip. If libdvdcss wasn’t installed incorrectly, you’ll see an error saying that the disc can’t be read here instead.ĭon’t be scared by Handbrake’s complex window-most of this should be pretty simple. Handbrake will take a moment to scan the titles on your DVD. Note that you don’t have to do this every time you rip a DVD-once libdvdcss is installed, you can skip to Step One each time you rip a new disc. The process is a little different for Windows and Mac users, so we’ll go through each one individually. This will let Handbrake read your encrypted DVDs and rip them to your computer. We’ll be using a free DVD playback library called libdvdcss. You can, however, download it separately-as long as you’re just using this to watch a movie on your computer and not starting a bootlegging business, we promise we won’t tell on you. Getting around this is a weirdly gray area legally, so applications like Handbrake can’t legally include the software needed to decrypt copy protected DVDs.

Out of the box, Handbrake can rip any DVD that isn’t copy protected…but almost all DVDs you buy in the store are copy protected.

The main tool we’ll be using to rip DVDs is called Handbrake, which you can download here. Step Zero: Install Handbrake and libdvdcss So You Can Decrypt DVDs Try out VideoProc for free on Windows or Mac today.

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