Who is still buying DVDs? Surely collectors are. A hard copy is always tempting for collectors. Also, old-fashioned DVD serves you well when movies are hard to find or even not available online on ...

Reader Steven Pollock seeks a digital copy of a movie he recently purchased. He writes: I read Macworld’s story about how to rip DVDs with HandBrake and I’m having a problem. I’d like to rip a DVD ...

Occasionally I've had trouble with Handbrake when ripping directly from the DVD. I use MacTheRipper to get the DVD to the hard drive and then use Handbrake on the VIDEO_TS folder. Much more consistent ...

Learn the step-by-step tutorial on how to rip DVD movies to iPod and iPhone with HandBrake for free. http://www.aneesoft.com/tutorials/rip-dvd-to-mp4-with-handbrake ...

Hello,<BR><BR>I've been ripping my DVDs to h.264 using my Powerbook and the appm Handbrake. It's been going great, but sometimes Handbrake just doesn't get the job.<BR><BR>I just tried The Nightmare ...

[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should be able to ...

HandBrake, the multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 ripper/converter, has been updated for Mac OS X and Windows. The new version, HandBrake v0.9.0, features a redesigned interface on both platforms with the ...

MacX DVD Ripper Pro uses your Mac’s GPU to do hardware encoding by default. This means your CPU – and system fans – stay calm and collected while the rip is happening, unlike Handbrake where ...

Matt Asay is a veteran technology columnist who has written for CNET, ReadWrite, and other tech media. Asay has also held a variety of executive roles with leading mobile and big data software ...

Hackszine has a dead simple guide to putting DVDs on your iPhone using the popular open source MPEG-4 ripper/converter Handbrake. While Handbrake is cross-platform and should work with either Mac or ...

As digital superiority is becoming a foregone conclusion, it's honestly rather embarrassing that we so stubbornly hold on to something so impractical, and by something, I mean physical discs. I love ...

In this column two weeks ago I mentioned that a friend on a mail list had asked, “What do people use to rip a DVD to their hard drive so they can, for example, watch it on a laptop or a tablet? This ...