Mac the Ripper

[sourceninja]

It seems that the latest version of mac the ripper requires you to donate. I was wondering if anyone knows of free/open source software for the mac that does the same. Command line is fine as well. I'm just looking for options to backup my dvds. I use mp4's for most of them and stream to my xbox 360, but in this case I want to take some movies with me for traveling.

 

[aphex]

I love when people make apps that 'require a donation' - Stupid. Just call it a paid app like everyone else on the freaking planet.

Try fairmount + disk utility, i've heard the combo works well.

 

[Kaido]

I just use a VM or XP box to rip. I don't really like any of the Mac tools except for Handbrake, but I use that on Windows too. RipIt4Me + DVD Decrypter + DVD Shrink is the best combo for DVDs imo. Plus Handbrake if you want to encode.

 

[sourceninja]

I'm sorry, I don't have a free license of windows, so that is just not an option. If I can find some good command line applications, then I can write my own little gui or script for it. Fairmount might solve the problem.

 

[Kmax82]

What's wrong with the free version of MactheRipper 2.6, I believe. It's still free, at least it was last time I downloaded it.

 

[randomlinh]

where is mac the ripper say it's donationware?

 

[Kmax82]

I believe the newest betas (3.0 and up) require you to donate, but 2.6.6 is still free.

 

[sourceninja]

2.6.6 doesn't work on some of my dvds. Especially some of the new ones from sony.

 

[timswim78]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I just use a VM or XP box to rip. I don't really like any of the Mac tools except for Handbrake, but I use that on Windows too. RipIt4Me + DVD Decrypter + DVD Shrink is the best combo for DVDs imo. Plus Handbrake if you want to encode.

Is there an advantage to using ripit4me and DVD decrypter together?

I just use DVD Fab HD Decrypter which rips and decrypts in one step. Then I use DVDShrink. This is in a VM of course.

Also, I wonder if these Windows tools work under WINE?

 

[TheStu]

RipIt4Me will designate to DVDDecryptor what exactly it needs to extract, that then gets passed to DVD Shrink to either be shrunk, or extracted at full quality in either VOB or ISO format. Then you can pass the VOB to AutoGK if you want to convert (or run it through handbrake in one step)

 

[sourceninja]

I've tried DVDShrink via wine on linux in the past. It did not work well. Not sure on OSX.

 

[umrigar]

search online, torrent sites perhaps... you can find the latest version.

"MacTheRipper 3.0r14m"

 

[randomlinh]

Originally posted by: Kaido
I just use a VM or XP box to rip. I don't really like any of the Mac tools except for Handbrake, but I use that on Windows too. RipIt4Me + DVD Decrypter + DVD Shrink is the best combo for DVDs imo. Plus Handbrake if you want to encode.

I meant to comment on this earlier... you don't have any problems w/ the VM? What are you using again for your virtualization? I had a ton of issues with RipIt4Me, especially w/ newer stuff. It'd work fine on my windows box, but crap out on my VM.

 

[sourceninja]

Originally posted by: umrigar
search online, torrent sites perhaps... you can find the latest version.

"MacTheRipper 3.0r14m"

No thanks, I would rather do it a more difficult way then use software from a developer who does not want me as a customer. They want donations, I do not want to give it. I will just install the command line tools that do what I want and write a script to take care of it for me.

Maybe someday I'll write a program to do it with a pretty UI.

 

[umrigar]

Try Handbrake then.

 

[Kmax82]

Yea, I actually used to use MactheRipper, but has transferred over just using Handbrake and ripping the movie part. I don't ever watch the extras, so that works wonderfully.

 

[sourceninja]

Handbrake is a great program and I use it all the time. But it does not meet the need here. What I want to do is rip the dvd, compress it down and burn a new dvd on a single layer disk. Just like dvdshrink. Mac the Ripper solved the first part. However, I narrowed it down to a few options I'm exploring.

1. Rip with handbreak to the highest quality reasonable, use ffmpegX or Burn.app to create dvd. This works and I've tested it. I already rip all the dvd's I own to Xbox 360 compatable mp4 so turning those into dvd's should be just fine. However, for just doing a dvd backup, this is time consuming...very time consuming.
2. compile lxdvdrip and use that. - Provided I can get it to compile properly, this works great and I've used it on linux in the past.
3. Use a combo of transcode, myplayer, dvdauthor, etc via a script to do the same thing. - The hardest route, but could give the best results.