General Discussion - DVD Ripper for Mac Reviews garbray - Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:46 pm Post subject: DVD Ripper for Mac Reviews
We usually don’t want to spend money on something that doesn't work. When making a purchase, we may ask ourselves which one is worthy of our choice? For us, it is really a hard task to decide when we first get in touch with the products. However, with a little bit of examination, even the trickiest software becomes bright and clear. Take DVD ripper for example, there are so many apps with both pros and cons in the market, making you confused. Here, I’d like to share and explain four DVD rippers for Mac including MacX DVD Ripper Pro, iSkysoft DVD Ripper, HandBrake and MacTheRipper in details side by side. Through the DVD ripper for Mac reviews, you may easily decide which application will work best for you.
As a Mac DVD ripper, ripping DVD on Mac computer shall be the basic feature. It is a known fact that both MacX DVD Ripper Pro and iSkysoft DVD Ripper not only strip commercial DVDs of their copy protection but also rip DVD to video formats such as MP4, FLV, MOV, etc. for playback on iPhone and other portable devices. However, HandBrake only rips DVD to the formats like MP4 and MKV while MacTheRipper mainly plays a role of extracting commercial DVD movies to hard drive, minus all the copy protections put by DVD publishers. Obviously, MacX DVD Ripper Pro and iSkysoft DVD Ripper seem more favorable in ripping DVD on Mac.
Which One Gets Good Video Quality When Ripping DVD on Mac?
When you are using Mac DVD ripper, quality is quite the prime concern. Without a question, everyone would like to spend their money on the app that can produce video with utmost quality. MacX DVD Ripper Pro did a very good job in this area because it touts built-in High Quality Engine, Deinterlacing, Force A/C Syn, as well as its unique copy feature, making you backup DVD with original audio and video quality. On the other hand, HandBrake can automatically identify 4:3 video and size the resulting movie correctly. Regrettably, iSkysoft DVD Ripper may have more bells and whistles, but those extra features produce less-than-crisp images and don’t translate into better looking videos. As known to all, MacTheRipper is an excellent free DVD ripper for Mac users, accessing all types of copy protected DVD on MacBook, iMac, such as CSS encryption, Sony ARccOS encryption, etc. But the output formats are saved as Video_TS. So it is necessary for you to use a third app in case of watching movie on Mac OS.
Wanna Your DVD Ripping Process Fast?
The best Mac DVD ripper shall further offer a fast DVD ripping speed on Mac. If you choose MacX DVD Ripper, you are in luck. Its Free Edition delivers much faster speed than Handbrake. HandBrake encoded the 1-hour, 59-minute DVD movies in 65 minutes, MacX DVD Ripper only took 25 minutes to do the same job. No mention the speed of Copy feature, it only took 18 minutes. That’s because MacX DVD Ripper acts as a real DVD Player, and has no problem reading and analyzing DVD navigate instructions and thanks to it supporting Multi-core CPU and Hyper-threading technology. While iSkysoft DVD Ripper does not employ Multi-core CPU and Hyper threading technologies so that the ripping speed is not optimized and not fast enough, basically 4 minutes lagging behind MacX DVD Ripper Pro when ripping a 10-minute segment of Transformers.
Clean and Straightforward Interface－Making You Rip DVD With Ease
It is universally acknowledged that the fewer the number of click, the easier the Mac DVD Ripper Suite for Mac is to use. Let’s talk about iSkysoft DVD Ripper. In my opinion, the interfaces are invariably clumsy, with a lot of presets many of which produced poor results; regardless of preset you used, the resulting video wasn’t as good as video ripped with MacX DVD Ripper Pro and Handbrake, both of which own clean interfaces and handy presets. Although MacTheRipper has a straightforward interface, it only saves DVD in hard drive, keeping you busy with finding a third software to convert video.
Now, It’s Time for You to Judge
The four apps are fairly matched, but it’s not hard to see which DVD ripping software is the best one. MacX DVD Ripper Pro, cheaper than iSkysoft DVD Ripper, has a wider formats and options, not to mention a significantly better and more consistent level of quality and speed. Maybe the free apps like HandBrake and MacTheRipper are more attractive in driving you to purchase them in ripping DVD on Mac, but given the improved quality, fast ripping speed and wide features, MacX DVD Ripper Pro is more than worth the extra cost. It is obvious that when we compare it with the three other DVD rippers, MacX DVD Ripper Pro is the only one choice to make beyond doubt.
Below is DVD Ripper for Mac Reviews Side-by-Side
Main features MacX DVD Ripper Pro iSkysoft DVD Ripper Handbrake
Mac The Ripper
Supported input formats
(DVD disc, DVD ISO image and DVD folder)
Y Y N
(unencrypted DVD or Bluray discs) N
(DVD disc only)
Supported output formats
(Rip DVD to various formats such as AVI, MP4, MPEG, WMV, FLV, MOV, MP3, H.264, MKV, etc.) Y Y N
(MP4, MKV, H.264, MPEG, MP3 only) N
(The output formats are saved as Video_TS)
Supported devices
(Compatible with all portable devices such as iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, mobile phones and etc.) Y Y
N
(Only MP4, MKV and H.264 videos can be played on portable devices) N
(Only copy DVD to hard drive)
Rip encrypted or copy-protected DVD
(Remove all types of copy protected DVD such as CSS encryption, Sony ARccOS encryption, RCE Region protection, Disney X-project DRM, etc.) Y Y N
Y
Update constantly to support the latest copy-protected DVDs
(Backup the latest copy-protected DVDs, including Disney, Warner, Paramount movies for playback on Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod and other portable devices)
Y Y N
(Inability to rip copy-protected DVDs) Y
Copy function
(Backup DVD to to a single MPEG-2 without quality loss) Y N N N
Support Multi-core CPU and Hyper-threading technology
(Rip DVD to MP4, AVI, MOV, MPEG, H.264, AVCHD, M4V, FLV and etc at maximum speed) Y N
(Multi-core CPU only) N
(Support Multi-threading only) N
Video quality
(High Quality Engine, Deinterlacing, Force A/C syn) Y N
(Deinterlacing only, and produce less-than-crisp video) Y
(Deinterlacing only)
N
(A third application is needed)
Intelligent analysis and skip corrupt track
(Smooth and stabilize the conversion) Y N N N
Advanced parameter setting
(Flexibly define video/audio parameters to control conversion quality, such as video bitrate, video resolution, frame rate, audio volume, increase or decrease video quality, add letter box or stretch to full screen, change the output video aspect ratio, etc.) Y Y Y N
Import videos to iMovie and edit them
Y Y
(further import videos to iDVD and Final CUT Pro) N N
Automated Search Multimedia Devices
(Automatically detecting, connecting & transferring converted videos to portable devices)
Y N N N
Trim function
(rip and trim video segment from DVD, extract audio and snapshot images from DVD) Y Y
(Remove unwanted backdrops, black borders or emphasize a particular focal point by cropping the DVD movies) N N
Upload ripped videos to websites such as YouTube, Google, Metacafe , etc. Y Y Y N
Support both Power PC and Intel Processor Y Y Y N
Clear, simple and user-friendly interface
(A clear, simple and user-friendly interface enables users to operate with ease, without difficulty finding what you want) Y N
(the interface confuses users and it is hard to find the buttons and difficult to operate) Y Y
Fast Email technical support
(Get reply within one business day) Y Y N N
User guide Y Y Y N
help Y Y Y N