MacTheRipper

Sadly, using Popcorn or Toast, or most other apps, you really only get two choices: movie only, or full-disc copy. All the extras, or none at all. You can get around this by extracting each of the movies / episodes on a DVD to MP4 format, then make your own new menu in Toast Titanium - or at a pinch iDVD. However, this process is just too plain fiddly to be bothered with...

The one for the Mac to Quicktime is HandBrake. Also for the Mac the straight DVD to computer backup is called MacTheRipper.

You don't need MacTheRipper AFAIK. HandBrake does that job good enough. ...

MacTheRipper is freeware. See my link. Toast is commercial, but I think there are freeware disc burners that will allow you to burn DVD in UDF (video DVD) format. I believe YuBurner is one, although I've never personally used it for this task.

Are mactheripper and toast free? ...

First, use MacTheRipper top copy the contents of your DVD to your hard disk. ...

I've been trying this for a while now to no avail. I have a concert (which I own, no worries there) on a dvd and would like to convert each song separately to mp3 format to then put on my ipod 3rd generation (not interested in video nor can I because of my ipod). What applications could I use to do so? I have already tried handbrake and mactheripper, but after some conversions...

The advice I'm providing I have not personally tried. Use MacTheRipper to rip the DVD to your hard drive, then use HandBrake to convert video from DVD to iPod (you can read the directions - 320 X 240 works well or 320 X ZZZ works well for wide screen). Once the video file is complete and in mp4 format, use QuickTime Pro to save the file in ONLY audio fomat. After the file...

This question has been answered in these forums numerous times. Handbrake will take a DVD to a QuickTime or iPod file in one step. MacTheRipper will strip a DVD.Then you back up the ripped movie to DVD with DVD2one. ...

My workflow for backing up DVD movies is this: 1. Rip the DVD to a Video_TS file using MacTheRipper. 2. Drag the Video_TS file into Roxio Popcorn 2. If it accepts it, skip to step 4. 3. Compress the Video_TS file to a single-layer-DVD sized disk image using DVD2OneX2. Once done, drag the created image file into Roxio Popcorn 2. 4. Burn DVD using Popcorn. Since two of...