How to Rip DVD to AVI, DivX, MPEG on Mac OS X?

This step-by-step guide will show you how to use iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac to rip or copy general DVD to any video format files and extract audio from DVD with original quality on Mac OS X (tiger and leopard). With iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac, you can rip dvd to all sorts of video and audio formats on Mac easily. For example, you can copy dvd to quicktime(.mov), copy dvd to mp4, avi, extract .mp3 music from DVD movie, etc on mac using this mac dvd ripper effortlessly .

 

Reference of iSkysoft DVD Ripper for Mac:

• Source: DVD-Video, DVD IFO file, DVD folder.
• Output Video formats: MP4, AVI, MOV, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV, etc.
• Output Audio formats: MP3, M4A, AAC, AC3, etc.
• Picture formats: JPEG, BMP.
• Support Devices: macbook, iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, Zune, PSP, PS3, Cell Phone, Creative Zen, iRiver, PMP, Archos, Sony, MP4 player and MP3 player.

You can download the latest version for free form the product page of dvd ripper mac, (choose intel version OR PowerPC version according to the processor of your iMac / MacBook / Mac pro...)

Tip: How to determine the type of processor in your Mac:
1. Visit the About This Mac window, In the Finder, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu.
2. Look at the Processor line to see which kind of processor is in your Mac.

 

Step 1. Add DVD Movie

Click the Load DVD button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your hard disc or DVD-ROM, open your DVD folder, select the VIDEO_TS folder and click OK.

Or, click the Load IFO button, browse your computer, find the DVD folder of the movie you want to add from your hard disc or DVD-ROM, open your DVD folder, open the VIDEO_TS folder, select all the IFO files and click OK.

After you add your movie, you can choose any titles or chapters you want to convert by ticking the check boxes before them. So that You can choose to copy and convert DVD with the entire movie or just one or several chapters at will; or you can choose to convert a segment of the DVD movie .

 

Step 2: Output Settings

Filename: Name the output file for the current title/chapter.
Subtitle: Regular DVD movies usually have several subtitles such as English, French, German, etc. You can select the one you prefer so that you can convert dvd with subtitle on mac. You can also delete the subtitle by selecting 'No Subtitle'. Selecting Audio is the same.
Audio: Select an audio track from the available audio tracks of your DVD movie.

At the bottom of the main window, you can:

Select an output format: If you don't know much about video formats, you can select a format according to the name of your portable player. For example, you can select 'MOV-QuickTime(*.mov)' when you want to rip DVD to QuickTime on Mac, and the default setting works great. This dvd ripper for Mac can also rip dvd to MP4, AVI, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV on Mac OS X and convert dvd from PAL to NTSC. You can select mov or mp4 when you rip DVD to iMovie on Mac. iMovie supports MOV and MP4 video. It is easy to rip dvd to iMovie on mac.

Set Video and audio solutions: If you want to customize the output video's quality, you can click the 'Settings' button to open the Settings window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc. iSkysoft DVD Ripper for mac lets you extract audio from DVD movie to MP3 or AAC, etc.for web using or other portable players. You can set audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate and encoder on the 'Settings' panel.

 

Step 3: Start Conversion

After setting the output settings, you can just click the Convert button to start converting your Movie. You can choose to shut down your computer or open the output folder after conversion so you don't have to sit before your computer waiting for the conversion to finish.