MakeMKV is a free download for all operating systems. Top 3: MakeMKV (for Windows, Mac and Linux) – Can’t rip DVD with copy and region protection One of the favorite method to rip DVD is using a program called Handbrake, which allow you to convert DVD or Blu-ray-like source to which is NOT copy-protected (It is apparent that removal of copy protection is not supported) to MKV, MP4 with H.264, MPEG-4, MPEG-2 codecs or preset profiles optimized for iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Apple TViPhone/iPad, Android phone/tablet or Windows phone. Top 2: Handbrake (for Windows, Mac and Linux) Not supporting to output the most popular MP4 and H.264 format which are widely used a online delivery format. To assist you to get the best output video and audio quality, you can use the program’s bulilt-in “Profile Settings” window to flexibly adjust the output video codec, bit rate, frame rate, resolution or audio codec, bit rate, sample rate or channels. With this 100% free and easy to use DVD Ripper application, you can effectively rip and convert DVD with copy and region code protection to various different video file formats such as AVI, WMV, MKV, MOV, FLV, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, etc or audio file formats such as MP3, WMA, WAV, M4A, AAC, AC3, AIFF, FLAC, MKA, etc for playing on media player software or transfer to portable players.Īpart from Ripping DVD, you can also use the program to edit DVD chapters by trimming off unwanted segments, cropping out the black edges and unwanted area and setting the output aspect ration, splitting a large DVD video into several segments by file quantity, file size or time length, merging several DVD video into one clip, adding external srt/ass/ssa subtitle file to dvd movies or select preferred subtitles and audio tracks from original DVD movies to better understand the movies when watching on media players. Top 1: Pavtube Free DVDAid (for Windows and Mac)

Fortunately, there are a lot of open source DVD Ripping programs out there to assist you to make a copy or backup of your DVD movies to local computer for conveniently viewing on computer, transferring to smartphones, tablets or streaming to TV via home media server. The article below has listed best 5 open source DVD Ripping software that works on Windows and Mac platform for you. You may wish to rip and copy a movie from a DVD and store it on your computer, watch a new DVD on your iPad or tablet (which do not have DVD drives), backup your expensive movie collection or your DVD collection is bulging and you want to free up some room in your house (a 1TB hard drive full of movies could save a huge amount of cubic meters in your house). For people who own large collection of DVD disc, there are many reasons to rip a DVD.

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