Jeber Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 I love companies that offer their shareware for free. If you read How-To Geek (you do, don't you?) you can download a free copy of MacX DVD Ripper Pro for Mac (and Windows) for the next two days.This is a very time-limited offer, so if you need a good ripping app to convert your DVDs into a format you can load on your iPod or such, get on over to How-To Geek and follow the instructions. Be sure to copy the license on the download page, open the program once installed and enter the license number. No support is offered for this version, but I bet you can get by without it. The software rips a DVD or a Video-TS folder directly to iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV with nothing more than a few mouse clicks—or if you want to rip a DVD to MOV, MP4, or AVI, you can do that easily too, which should be sufficient for most devices. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachy Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 The code only unlocks it for a trial version. You can only rip the first 22 minutes or so of the DVD—I just tried it myself and can confirm it. Or as one punter noted in the comment section on the MacX site, it's ironic that a company would charge you money for a piece of software that circumvents the DMCA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeber Posted March 10, 2011 Author Share Posted March 10, 2011 I would expect people to only use this kind of software for their own use and not violate copyrights or the DMCA. As far as I know all apps that allow you to rip and convert video for use on an iPod or Apple TV could be used to violate laws if one chose to do that. But that's a whole other debate. I'm going to check out that time limitation issue. My understanding was that this was a full, unlimited license. If it isn't then RipIt, iRip or Handbrake would be better options. Again, I don't mean to imply that I encourage breaking the law with any software. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 I would expect people to only use this kind of software for their own use and not violate copyrights or the DMCA. As far as I know all apps that allow you to rip and convert video for use on an iPod or Apple TV could be used to violate laws if one chose to do that. But that's a whole other debate. I'm going to check out that time limitation issue. My understanding was that this was a full, unlimited license. If it isn't then RipIt, iRip or Handbrake would be better options. Again, I don't mean to imply that I encourage breaking the law with any software.Well it is legal to rip unencrypted DVDs that you own. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripping#United_StatesThe problem lies in the fact that any commercial dvd movie you bought, will be encrypted in one form or another. So it is more of a Catch-22 issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachy Posted March 10, 2011 Share Posted March 10, 2011 Actually, Handbrake no longer rips encrypted DVDs. You need another ripper to do it. It's been like that for at least the last 3 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peachy Posted March 12, 2011 Share Posted March 12, 2011 Nevermind. I finally figured out how to use the application. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChipDoc Posted March 14, 2011 Share Posted March 14, 2011 Nevermind. I finally figured out how to use the application. On rare occasions, it is sometimes actually helpful to RTFM! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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