Best DVD Ripper: Handbrake, Wondershare and MacTheRipper

Launch Handbrake, select the DVD you want to rip by clicking Source.
After importing DVD, you will see the figure below.



Setting Introduction

1. Source settings
(1). Title: Handbrake will detect all the titles on the DVD and choose the longest title automatically.
(2). Chapters: By setting chapters’ number, you can rip a specific clip. However, this is not very user friendly, since you will have to remember what is on each chapter. If you could preview each chapter, things would be a lot easier.

2. Destination setting: Choose the folder to save ripped movies.

3. Output Settings: select the format and codec you need.
(1). Video Settings



Framerate(FPS): Select a frame rate that you prefer.

Quality:
There are three options available:
1. Specify an output size and the quality will depend on the specified output size.
2. Select a birate. The higher bitrate you choose, the bigger size the output file will be, and the better quality you will get.
3. Directly select a quality.

Encoder: Select the encoder you prefer.

2-pass encoding(optional): This takes twice as long to encode, but it improves the video quality and doesn’t make the file any larger.

Picture Settings: Here you can set video resolution and crop video. Different players have different resolution specs. For example, the highest resolution supported by the new nano-chromatic is 640*480. The crop function of handbrake is kind of like a decoration here, because it is not powerful or practical. If this function is important to you, you can refer to a different guide.

(2).Audio Settings



In this section, you can choose audio tracks and movie subtitle, as shown in the above figure.
After all settings done, click Start button to rip.

Additional: As a freeware, handbrake is a pretty good DVD ripping tool, but it's not very stable and has quite a few bugs. If you focus on more powerful functions such as movie length trimming, video cropping, selecting DVD chapters/titles, joining/merging more than one DVD chapter/title, more user-friendly operation, or want to rip DVD's for viewable on more mobile devices on Mac, don't mind paying a bit extra money, professional Mac DVD ripper software are definitely worth a try, and you will also get free professional technical support from the providers.