Handbrake won’t rip a new DVD yet? Try VLC
by Andre on Mar.27, 2009, under Mac OS X, Windows Vista, Windows XP
Kind of ugly but it does the trick. If you can’t rip a DVD with anything that you have tried via some sort of new copy protection VLC to the rescue. In VLC go to open disc and choose your dvd. At the bottom of this window you will see a box that says “Streaming/Saving:”. Check that and then open the settings button next to it. Configure what codec/wrapper you would like to use and tell it where you want it to save. Thats it. Watch your movie and stop it when its done. Warning, This thing will keep on recording after the movie is done so you have to babysit or else you will end up with a 100gb mpeg file that needs trimming.
January 26th, 2010 on 11:10 am
Some really good information here. I’ve bookmarked it for the next time i need to do this
October 19th, 2011 on 4:03 pm
VLC seems to be the only free player around that actually *supports* DVD navigation (and hence ripping). Yikes.