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How to Use MacTheRipper?

If you've searched free DVD Ripper for Mac on Internet, you must be very familiar with this MacTheRipper. It is a totally free Mac DVD Ripping software which can extract the movie from a DVD and copy it to your Mac hard drive regardless of any protection measures or region settings. If you are wondering how to use MacTheRipper to rip DVDs on Mac, you can just find the right answer right here. This is the MacTheRipper tutorial which is specially written down to show you how to rip DVDs on Mac with MacTheRipper.

Tips: As a totally free Mac DVD ripping program, MacTheRipper can only rip DVD into VOB format files. As we know, this format files are not accepted by most handled devices including iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV, HTC, Motorola, etc. So if you want to rip DVD for your portable media player, you can have a try with a more powerful software which supports you to rip DVD to different devices directly, such as Aimersoft Mac DVD Ripper.

How to Use MacTheRipper Tutorial - Using MacTheRipper to Rip DVDs on Mac with Ease

Step 1: Install MacTheRipper

Download the MacTheRipper from http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14414/mactheripper. Once you've downloaded this free Mac software successfully, directly click the .dmg file to install it.

Step 2: Insert DVD Disc

Insert your DVD disc to Mac DVD drive. Then open MacTheRipper and it would automatically detect your DVD files.

Step 3: Rip DVDs on Mac with MacTheRipper

After the automatically detection, you should set the RCE options if applicable. Once you've selected ripping mode and RCE region options as you want, you can go back to the 'Disc' tab and click the 'GO!' button (or hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' key) to start using MacTheRipper to rip DVDs on Mac.

Note: If MacTheRipper displays 'DISC RCE: -CLEAR-' after detecting the inserted DVD disc, you can leave the 'RCE Region' popup menu 'OFF', as it is by default. Only set the 'RCE Region' to 'OFF' when it says that RCE is '-CLEAR-'. When MacTheRipper displays "DISC RCE: -DETECTED-" after detection, you must set the option to the region in which the DVD was purchased. Here is the information for REC region setting.

RCE Region Protection:

• Region 1: North America; U.S. territories; Bermuda
• Region 2: Europe; Kingdom of the Netherlands; Egypt, Japan, Lesotho, South Africa, Swaziland; British overseas territories, French overseas territories; Greenland; Western Asia
• Region 3: East and Southeast Asia
• Region 4: Oceania; Central and South America; Caribbean; Mexico
• Region 5: Africa, Central and South Asia, Belarus, India, Mongolia, North Korea, Russia, Ukraine
• Region 6: Mainland China

Step 4: Finish Extracting Movie from DVD

That's the whole process of how to use MacTheRipper to rip DVDs on Mac. When the DVD ripping process is finished, you can find the output VOB files in the save location. If you wanna enjoy DVD movies on your handled devices on the go, you can refer to the guides on how to convert DVD to iPad on Mac, convert DVD Movies to Motorola on Mac, rip DVD Movie to iPhone 4 on Mac, etc. All these tutorials just show you the best solutions to enjoy DVD movies on different media players.

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