Best DVD Ripper: Handbrake, Wondershare and MacTheRipper

Christmas is coming, we are having a happy time to celebrate the great time in the whole year. At this time, we can hold Xmas party with our friends, we can get more time with our relatives, and also we can express our thanks to everyone who have help us during the past year...... For your friends, for your relatives, for your family, especially for yourself, choose a wonderful gift for them.

1. iPod

The Apple iPod has revolutionized portable audio from a personal music player, to a complete pocket computer! Released just in time to make it onto Christmas lists around the world, the iPod (iPod touch, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iPod classic) caters to people’s every need as a personal entertainment device with the ability to browse and buy from iTunes, auto-create playlists, and watch movies. Audio and video is only the start of its robust functionality however.

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2. iPhone

Apple iphone is innovative, has a great display, good web browser, voice quality has improved, and sleek design. It is a really cool gift that men and teenagers want to have.

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3. Audio & Video CDs

Make this Christmas extra special with collectible gifts with some popular CDs of songs, audio books and movies. The perfect introduction to the fantasy genre for people of all ages will give them something they’ll enjoy year after year.

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4. Flip Mino HD

The Flip Mino HD can record an hour's worth of 720p high definition video encoded in H.264 MP4 at 30 frames per second on its 4GBs of internal storage. The device measures 4 x 2 x 0.6 inches, weighs only 3.3 ounces, and connects to your computer via a flip-out USB plug, no cables required.

The best thing about the Flip Mino HD is that it's an HD camcorder that fits in your pocket and doesn't need anything else. Sure it comes with a TV composite cable if you want to hook it up to your TV, but you don't have to pack that cable.

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5. Wondershare Mac Apps for Macs

Wondershare has delivered an early Christmas present for customers with special offers on a huge selection of products including some hot products such as iPod transfer for Mac, Free Youtube Downloader for Mac, etc at Christmas Promotional gifts.

Now, find the most suitable Christmas Gifts for your friends, relatives, family even yourself, and get the gifts at the lowest price at Wondershare Christmas Discount Offer.

Watching movies is an essential part of our leisure life on weekends. Many moviegoers have tons of DVD on the shelf. We may waste lots of time to find the DVD, specially the commercial DVDs. We have to take the disc if we want to watch movies on our travel. Sometimes the discs may be gotten ruined by scratches. We need a way to manage our personal DVDs collection and watch without disc.

Now, we can store DVD movies on your Mac with DVD-Library, a new utility that creates an image of the DVD on our hard drive so we can watch without the disc on Mac.



The image preserves the quality, navigation and special features of the original DVD and can be played using Apple's DVD Player or Front Row. DVD-Library allows you to play your images on any computer that you own but does not allow you to share your images with others. It can help you keep track of your DVDs in particular.

It's nice to have perfect quality one for one copies of my favorites right on my hard drive when I travel, and the "DVD boxes" are a nice touch. Although the images take up a good bit of space, I keep my main library on a backup drive and rotate images on my Macbook before I leave for a trip, or simply take the drive with me. This is a great solution for watching movies on a notebook and keeping DVDs from getting ruined by scratches.

DVD-Library requires Mac OS X 10.4 or later. The beta is FREE.

Here is the user guide: How to use DVD-Library to store commercial DVD on Mac?

From: How to store commercial DVD and watch without disc on Mac?

What are MKV files?
.MKV is a container format developed by Matroska. It can hold different types of video and audio. For example, there might be an .avi file contained within the .MKV file. High Definition movies in 720 or 1080 pixel width format are often encoded and packaged as a Matroska format video with a .MKV file extension.
* Know more about MKV format at WikiPedia.

How to play MKV file s on Mac?
I recommend trying either MPlayer OS X or VLC Media Player. They are all free.
These excellent and free multimedia players can tackle many of the video formats unknown to QuickTime. They contain a decoder to decode the .MKV files. They will also play many of the formats you will find inside the .MKV file.

How to convert DVD to MKV on Mac for free?
I recommend you use Handbrake to you to convert DVD to MKV on Mac . HandBrake is an open-source, GPL-licensed, multiplatform, multithreaded DVD to MPEG-4 converter. It can convert DVD to MKV on Mac eaisly and for free.

Step 1, Download and Install Handbake
Download the free program Handbrake. Check to see if your Mac has the system requirements; click on the apple icon in the top left corner and About this Mac. Then install HandBrake.



Step 2, Run it and insert DVD
Select your favorite DVD disk and put it in the disk drive. Then run HandBrake and click Detected Volume to choose source. Click Open and you will be able to see many titles included in this DVD disk. Choose the longest title if this is a movie DVD, or choose your favorite chapter if this is an episode.

Step 3, Select Output setting
Select MKV files as output format and select other settings such as video quality, audio track, Audio Sample Rate, bitrate, Picture Settings, etc.



Step 4, Rip DVD to MKV on Mac
Check all settings and click Rip. A progress bar will show its ripping speed; depends on many factors like speed of Mac, filesize, etc.
That’s all. We have converted DVD to MKV for free now.

Note: Handbrake cannot rip encrypted DVD movies. If you want to rip encrypted DVD movies, you can use this DVD Ripper for Mac which is also excellent.

Another guide about MKV: How to convert MKV to DVD, MP4, AVI, etc on Mac for free?

iPod nano, fourth-generation (4G) 16GB
Basic Information
Price as Reviewed: $149
Company: Apple




Review
The fourth-generation iPod nano isn't the dramatic overhaul last year's nano was. If you've already got a 3G nano, the 4G model's new features may not be compelling enough to get you to upgrade--especially if you prefer the 3G model's more-pocket-friendly shape. And even with twice the storage at the same price, the new nano won't satisfy those who want to carry massive amounts of media with them or who watch lots of video.

Nevertheless, the 4G iPod nano is a solid upgrade, offering useful new features in Genius and Spoken Menus; new voice-recording functionality; a gimmicky-but-useful accelerometer; an improved interface and menu system; and a number of other minor improvements. Interestingly, of these new features, only Genius and the new microphone compatibility are available on the latest iPod classic, meaning the iPod nano has, for the first time, surpassed the classic/full-size line in functionality. If you're in the market for your first nano, you can't go wrong. And if you've been waiting to upgrade a 1G or 2G model, now's the time to buy; compared to the similarly shaped 2G model, the new nano is better in every way except for its sharp corners.--Dan Frakes


More Review


Specs
Capacity 16GB flash memory
Dimensions 1.5" x .24" x 3.6"
Weight 1.3 ounces
Rated battery life 24 hours (music), 4 hours (video)
Included accessories USB dock cable, Universal dock insert, earbuds.
Display size 2 inches, 320x240 pixels, color



Here is some guide may help:

* How to convert AVI/ WMV/ MOV/ MKV to iPod Nano 4th on Mac

* How to rip DVD movies to iPod Nano 4th on Mac

* How to download YouTube, Google, Yahoo, etc videos on iPod Nano 4th on Mac

* How to extract MP3/ M4A audio from DVD to iPod Nano 4th on Mac

Related Articles:
1. How to make home movies on Mac OS X using apple iMovie.
2. How to extract audio from video or vonvert audio between different audios.
3. How to rip DVD movies to audio formats for your iPod, iPhone, PSP and so on.

iMovie, part of iLife bundle stick on Mac, is famous known as a video editting tool. iMovie can edit high definition videos from camera and share on web like YouTube or play on iPod touch and so on. Also, you can follow this manual to edit other formats video (MOV, FLV, WMV, MKV, AVI, VOB, MPEG, IFO, DAT, ASF) in iMovie.

And, how to import DVD into iMovie and create DVD clips into iMovie?

Here is an tip on how to import NON-Commercial DVD into iMovie. But for Commercial DVDs, you can not import them into iMovie directly.

If you want to import commerciral DVD into iMovie, you need wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac to rip DVD to iMovie supported MP4 video, the Mac DVD Ripper can help you to make some clips from DVD to MP4 on Mac. It also can rip DVD to AVI, convert DVD to 3GPP, and extract audio from DVD to MP3, etc. You can follow this guide to create DVD clips on Mac and convert DVD to iMovie MP4.

Some tips below.

Tip 1: Output format selection for iMovie
Output formats listed in 'Format' of DVD Ripper for Mac. To be compatible with iMovie, you can choose MPEG-4 Movie, if you want the best quality for the output MP4 video, Apple TV H.264 1280*720 is recommended. Additional formats such as iPod MP4, iPod Touch MP4, iPhone 3G MP4, PSP\PS3 MP4, QuickTime MOV, AVI, MKV, MP3 etc.



Tip 2: Video Settings on Mac
If you want to customize the output video quality, you can click the “Settings” button to open the Settings window and set video resolution, frame rate, bit rate, encoder, etc. You can set audio resolution, frame rate, bit rate and encoder on the “Settings” interface.



Tips 3: Merge into one fileIf you want to join the selected titles, chapters or clips into one file, check “merge into one file” option. Set an output directory to save the output files.

Put the converted MP4 videos into iMovieOpen iMovie and choose File->Import Movies to import the converted Mp4 video. And then you can edit the movie according to your needs.


Interface of iMovie

Series DVD Tips for Mac OS about ripping a DVD movie, capturing pictures from a DVD, extracting DVD audio, editing DVD with iMovie, copying a DVD, DVD glossary, etc.

1. Guide - How to Rip DVD movie to video or extract audio from DVD movie
DVD Ripper for Mac is a great DVD ripper and DVD decoder for Mac OS users who want to rip their DVD to almost all regular video formats (AVI, MPEG, MOV, MP4, 3GP, FLV, H264, M4V, etc) for most popular mobile devices (iPod, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP, Creative Zen, Sansa MP4 and MP3 player.) Visit the full version of DVD Ripper for Mac.

2. How to put DVD movie into Apple iMovie
One of the benefits about digital video is that the videos can be shared with family and friends. iMovie is created for this purpose, just several steps, you can add movies to your website, publish them on YouTube, and create versions for iPod, iPhone, and Apple TV. However, the formats which iMovie supported are very limited:DVD, 3GP, AVI, DAT, MOV, MP4, and MPG. How to put DVD and video on to iMovie ?

3. How to Capture pictures from DVD on Mac
As we know, many scenes in DVD movie are wonderful and amazing! If you want to save the favorite scene in a movie, you could capture and save it in your computer, but how? By using Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac, you can capture picture from DVD on Mac while you are watching the DVD movie. Visit the guide to capture pictures from DVD on Mac.

4. How to convert DVD to iTunes for iPod Touch and iPhone
If you collected DVD movie and want to put them on iPod or iPhone, even don't know how to use iTunes to transfer files to iPod. Take a tour of how to transfer DVD to iPod and iPhone with iTunes.

5. How to put a DVD movie on a blank DVD
Want to copy a DVD movie to a blank DVD disc on your Mac machine? Wondershare DVD Copy for Mac can help you soon, it is a professional DVD copy program designed for Mac OS users to copy D9 and D5 DVD movies ( D9 to D9 and D5 to D5), and even able to remove DVD protections. Learn more how to backup DVD movie.

6. Guide – How to convert between video formats for iPod, iPhone cellphone, etc
If you have some video files except DVD movie, these files are various video formats, such as AVI, MOV, FLV(YouTube video, Google video,etc), TS, TP, TRP, MP4, MPG, MPEG, VOB, 3GP, MOB, DAT,etc. Now you want to put them on your iPod, iPhone or other protable devices. How to convert between video formats ?

7. How to Rip DVD Using HandBrake ?
As a freeware, handbrake is a pretty good DVD ripping tool, it can help you to rip DVD easily, if you want to know more how to use it, follow this guide Rip DVD Using HandBrake on Mac