How can I rip a US DVD?

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F3RNY7

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545 posts

163 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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I bought a concert DVD in the USA many many years ago, which used to work in the £20 region free ASDA DVD player I had as a kid, now the only DVD player I have is in the Xbox One which won't play it - is there an easy way I can rip this into a digital format from my MacBook?

Sorry if this is an obvious question, this really isn't my thing!!

LordGrover

33,532 posts

211 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Pretty sure handbrake will do it automagically.

Mr_Yogi

3,278 posts

254 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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If it's copy protected I'm not sure Handbrake will be able to rip it. I always use MakeMKV to rip DVD's to a .mkv file, and then Handbrake to convert it to MP4 so it takes up less space.


marctwo

3,666 posts

259 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Mr_Yogi said:
If it's copy protected I'm not sure Handbrake will be able to rip it. I always use MakeMKV to rip DVD's to a .mkv file, and then Handbrake to convert it to MP4 so it takes up less space.
^ This

MakeMKV is much better at ripping than Handbrake.

F3RNY7

Original Poster:

545 posts

163 months

Friday 3rd July 2015
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Thanks all

wnna2

3 posts

104 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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For ripper ,recommend this one: free DVD ripper second time ,cause it has help me rip all my copy decrypted DVDs and its free .
If you dont like it ,or you can try Freemake ,which is an open recourse,but I think its a little professional for newbie .

megaphone

10,696 posts

250 months

Monday 6th July 2015
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The US DVD will be region 1, you need to set you Macbook to region 1, it's probabley on region 2 which is Europe. You used to be able to swap the region on a Macbook, think you had 5 opportunities before it was stuck on the region. That was on my old black plastic MB from 2006.

Not sure if this is still current

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201705