Hello,<BR><BR>I've been ripping my DVDs to h.264 using my Powerbook and the appm Handbrake. It's been going great, but sometimes Handbrake just doesn't get the job.<BR><BR>I just tried The Nightmare ...

Occasionally I've had trouble with Handbrake when ripping directly from the DVD. I use MacTheRipper to get the DVD to the hard drive and then use Handbrake on the VIDEO_TS folder. Much more consistent ...

[Editor’s note: The MPAA and most media companies argue that you can’t legally copy or convert commercial DVDs for any reason. We (and others) think that, if you own a DVD, you should be able to ...

If you're a reasonably tech-savvy user and want to rip your DVDs for viewing on a portable media player, HandBrake gets the job done beautifully--free of charge. Rick Broida is the author of numerous ...

The world is going to be digitized day by day. Thus, all physical media will also quickly be shifted into digital formats. Now all forms of physical media have become outdated. Shifting physical media ...

The existence of the Apple TV has led to an increased interest in converting DVDs to a form compatible with Apple’s new set-top box. And with that interest comes a measure of confusion. Macworld’s ...

In this column two weeks ago I mentioned that a friend on a mail list had asked, “What do people use to rip a DVD to their hard drive so they can, for example, watch it on a laptop or a tablet? This ...

Handbrake, the closest thing to entertainment manna we have, has released the newest version of its open-source DVD ripping software, version 0.93. There's just one problem: it no longer rips DVDs. At ...

Still got a stack of DVDs gathering dust in the garage? Far too many of us throw them away or dump them at the thrift store, assuming it’ll be too much of a timesuck to convert them to digital format.