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Help: How to rip DVD on Mac? Is there a DVD ripper for mac that is compatible with the new system?
To be honest, I don't really recommend HandBrake as the main DVD ripper for Mac. Although it is very famous, the experience I have with it is really hard to describe.
I also used HandBrake to try to rip a few old DVDs before, but it couldn't recognize the disc at the beginning. Later I found out that I had to install the libdvdcss decryption library myself. The installation method is different. It requires Homebrew and command line operation. On the new version of macOS, you have to go around permissions. At that time, I had already given up.
After decryption, the interface is quite good, but the problem comes again: the ripped image quality is sometimes blurry, especially the details on the edges of cartoons, which are compressed too much. And although the output mp4 is small, the subtitles are not stable. Sometimes you have to add and select tracks manually, which is really troublesome.
In terms of the overall experience, HandBrake, a DVD ripper for Mac, is more suitable for "pressing" or "secondary processing" rather than as the first step of initial ripping DVDs. If you just want to rip DVD on Mac, like me, who doesn't want to mess around too much, I sincerely suggest you skip it and use MakeMKV or other tools directly as the base.