Best DVD Ripper: Handbrake, Wondershare and MacTheRipper

1. iPod Speakers
Ever thought of flooding the room or the house with the music from your iPod? Just get an iPod speaker, a combination of design, performance, and value.



If you don't know where to get started, the review on cnet.com would be helpful.
You can also DIY an iPod speaker, following this instruction. :D

2. iPod Cases

An iPod case not only offers protection against dust and fingerprints, but also allows you outfit your iPod with your own sense of style.



The case really looks like a piece of bacon. You can feel the irregular and the illusion is perfect. Each case is different. It's absolutely trendy!
Choose from just about every possible color, material, and design.

3. Multimedia Converters
Apple provides iPod owners with only one way to put movies and music on the device: The iTunes Store.
Using only iTunes means you're stuck paying for movies or music you may already own. Luckily, Apple doesn't prevent you from putting properly formatted movies and music on the device. With an iPod Converter, you will enjoy your iPod without limitation.



4. External Chargers
With an awesome iPod charger, you don't have to worry about losing its power when you enjoy holiday time. External iPod Charger is designed with 30-pin connecter, using 2 "AAA" batteries to power the iPod anytime, anywhere; or DIY an onion charger with electrolytes.



5. Christmas Wallpapers
Don't let your iPod be plain, just decorating it with colorful Christmas wallpapers.



Wish you and your iPod a merry Christmas!

Want to play your DVD movies on iPod(Touch/Classic/Nano), iPhone, PSP and a lot more mobile devices? With a Mac DVD Ripper, you can get the job done easily.
Just 3 simple steps as follows.

Step 1: Load DVD Files
Launch the Mac DVD Ripper and Improt DVD files by clicking the Load DVD button, as shown in the figure below.


Step 2: Output Settings
Choose output format you need from output presetting list, or customize video specs by clicking Settings.


Step 3: Finish The Job
Clicking the Start button.
The Mac DVD Ripper can finish the conversion automatically. And all you need to do is wait for enjoying the fruits.

Addtional Tips:
1.Three type files can be loaded into the DVD Ripper for Mac: entire DVD(VIDEO_TS) folder, DVD Info(.IFO) Files, DVD Disc.
2.You can check the "Merger into one file" option to join all the selected DVD titles/chapters into one file instead of creating a separated file for each title/chapter.
3.In Video Specs Settings, you can customize video specs, including simple rate, bit rate, frame rate(Higher rate = higher quality = larger file size).
4.The Mac DVD Ripper still supports video editing, such as trimming video time length, cropping screen, changing video effect etc. You can turn to its official website for more details.
5.If you want a totally free DVD Ripper, rip DVD using handbrake.

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.

Want to rip your DVD movies for iPod touch, iPod classic, iPod nano, iPhone, Apple TV, PSP and a lot more mobile devices on Mac OS? Wondershare DVD Ripper for Mac is a great solution for Mac OS users who want to convert their DVD movies to almost all video formats for most popular mobile devices, complete with options to select DVD audio track and subtitle, crop DVD video, trim DVD movie length, set video effects and so on.

To rip a DVD movie on your Mac machine, just follows the steps below:

Step1: Import DVD Movies

Click the Load DVD button, select the folder of your DVD movie, and click OK. If the movie is on your disc drive, you can just select the drive and click OK.
Or click the Load IFO button, open the folder of your DVD movie, and you will find two folders in it: AUDIO_TS and VIDEO_TS. Open the VIDEO_TS folder, select all the IFO files, and then click OK.
After the movie is loaded, you can see all the chapters and titles in it, and then you can check the ones you want to convert. If you want to convert the whole movie, you can just keep all the titles or chapters checked.


Step 2: Output Settings

After your DVD movie is loaded, you can start to make output settings:

1. Select an output format from the Format drop-down list. Just select a format according to the device you want to put the DVD movie to;
2. Click the Settings button to make video encoding settings including video resolution, frame rate, bit rate and video encoder, audio encoding settings including sample rate, channel, bit rate and audio encoder;
3. Name each title/chapter in the Output Filename field, and select the subtitle and audio track for the titles/chapters.

Note: You can check the Merger into one file option to join all the selected DVD titles/chapters into one file instead of creating a separated file for each title/chapter.



Step 3: Click the Start button to start the conversion. And all you need to do now is to wait for the conversion to be finished. The remaining time will be shown on conversion window for your reference.

Tip 1: Trim Movie
If you just want to convert a clip from your DVD movie, you can click the Trim icon to capture the clip. In the Trim window, you can trim the length of the current title/chapter by either dragging the Start Time and End Time sliders or setting the time parameters in each corresponding field.


Tip 2: Crop Video
If your DVD video has black sides, you can use the Crop function to remove them. Click the Crop icon to open the Crop window, and set the video crop area by dragging the crop frame or setting the four crop parameters (Top, Bottom, Left and Right).


Tip 3: Movie Effect

If you want to change the original video effect, you can click the Effect icon to set the video brightness, contrast, saturation, and even audio volume. You can also choose to apply a special effect to your DVD movie video from the available effects including Gray, Emboss and Negative.