Ripping encrypted DVDs with HandBrake and libdvdcss on macOS High Sierra/El Capitan Date December 7, 2016 Author Catherine Category, If you are a huge DVD collector and sometimes for wide accessing on multimedia devices, you maybe have installed Handbrake on your Mac. But it is not enough to just with Handbrake cause most of commercial DVD discs have encryption such as CSS and Handbrake doesn’t have decryption library to bypass DVD copyright protection. To rip encrypted DVD with Handbrake, you need to install libdvdcss.pkg on Mac.
Now, let’s show you DVD support (libdvdcss) installation on Mac including macOS Sierra and El Capitan. Where do I find libdvdcss? VideoLAN, the project behind VLC Media Player, hosts the last stable version of the libdvdcss library for MacOS High Sierra. First, install Handbrake. You can get it from. Second, download the missing library. At that link, you can either download an installer package, which places the library where it belongs, or download thelibdvdcss.2.dylib file directly.
Handbrake’s standout features. One of the things that endear many users to Handbrake is the cost – or lack of it. Some of the other features of Handbrake that makes it a fan favorite include: Transcoding: The DVD ripper is known for transcoding videos in old formats into modern formats that can be viewed on other devices (iPhones and iPads). This comes in handy when you have a desired video in an old format and new devices that won’t read such a format. Handbrake is an open-source video encoder that works with Windows, Mac, and Linux computers. The program intended to both rip and convert video files to work on a number of supported devices. The program intended to both rip and convert video files to work on a number of supported devices.
If you take the latter option, you need to move that file to /usr/lib/ on your Mac. The installer does that for you. You should now be able to run handbrake and access encrypted DVD content on Mac. Insert the DVD.
HandBrake will display a dropdown sheet asking which Volume should be opened. Select the DVD from the list, and then click ‘Open.’ HandBrake’s main window will appear. After HandBrake spends a few moments analyzing the selected DVD, the DVD’s name will appear as the Source in HandBrake’s main window. Choose the title to copy. The Title dropdown menu will be filled in with the DVD’s longest title; this is usually the main title for the DVD. HandBrake can only create a copy of a single title on a DVD.
Of course you can run HandBrake multiple times if you want all of the DVD titles. In our example, we will assume you only want the main movie on the DVD, and not any of the extras. Choose a destination. This is the file that will be created when the copy is made.
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You can use the suggested file name, or use the ‘Browse’ button to select another location to store the destination file and create a new name. Do not change the file extension, which will probably be.m4v. This file type will ensure you can use the resulting copy in iTunes, or directly on your Mac, using the VLC media player or Apple’s QuickTime Player. Starting HandBrake. Click the ‘Start’ button near the top left of the HandBrake window.
Once a copy or conversion starts, HandBrake will display a progress bar along the bottom of its window, along with an estimate of the time remaining to complete. HandBrake adds the progress bar to its Dock icon, so you can easily hide the HandBrake window and go on about your work while occasionally stealing a glance at the progress HandBrake is making. Libdvdcss is not enough to rip all commercial DVDs on Mac Commercial DVDs have various DVD encryption includes CSS, region code, RCE, Sony ArccOS, UOPs, Disney x-project DRM, etc. Libdvdcss only can remove CSS and some of the region codes. Even you installed libdvdcss package on Mac to copy DVD with Handbrake, there is likely many DVD discs that you can’t deal with due to more complex encryption mechanism. Fortunately, a can do this. As the best replacement of Handbrake, can remove DVD encryption including CSS, region code, RCE, Sony ArccOS, UOPs, Disney x-project DRM, etc without installing libdvdcss by yourselves and then rip and, MKV, AVI, MOV, H.265/HEVC, etc.
It can rip DVD to lossless/uncompressed MKV files and convert DVD to multi-track MP4/MOV with multiple subtitle and audio tracks. It is a DVD Ripper + DVD Copier which means it not only can rip and convert DVD to digital files but also can 1:1 and directly copy DVD to VOB files on macOS Sierra and El Capitan. Besides, Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac can and even add external subtitles to DVDs.
You can download Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac from the following buttons: Rip DVDs on macOS Sierra/El Capitan with Handbrake Alternative Step 1. Load DVD movie Click “File” in top left corner and follow “Load from disc” to load the DVD movie to DVD Ripper on MacOS High Sierra. Three ways to copy DVD movie A. DVD full disc copy Full disc copy allows you to keep the whole file structure in your DVD disc complete without any quality loss.
Click the “Copy the entire disc” button to start DVD full disc copy. Directly copy If you hate the extras in the DVD, you can try copying DVD main movie only which will leave out any extras for you. Click the format bar to follow “Copy” > “Directly Copy.” C.
Rip DVD to multi-track MKV/MP4/MOV/AVI Pavtube ByteCopy for Mac also allows you to preserve multi-track information when you choose DVD to multi-track MKV/MP4/AVI/MOV. Click the format bar to pick the proper multi-track output format under “Multi-track Video” option. Step 3: Start backup and copy DVD If you choose the second or third way to copy DVD movie, you need to hit the “Convert” button in bottom right corner to start DVD main movie copy or DVD to multi-track MKV, MP4, MOV and AVI conversion. When the process is completed, open output folder and find the ripped DVD file. Now, you can play your on your MacBook Air, iMac, MacBook Pro, etc. You also can for iPhone, iPad, Apple TV playback. If you love to travel, you can load these and some then take the movie library with you.
And r allows you to watch favorite DVD movies on bedroom television or some portable devices freely. Just enjoy your achievement as much as possible.
Easiest Best Optimal settings for Handbrake DVD Video Conversion on Mac, Windows and Linux This is a simple easy guide on how to make the best encodes with the smallest file size in Handbrake without having to know or understand all of the settings. Just copy my settings and you’re done!.NOTE.
– These settings are for DVD Video ONLY – You can find a Blu Ray Tutorial. Video encoding is a topic a lot of people are very passionate about.
Factors like TV size, Viewing distance, hardware, drive space restrictions and a plethora of other concerns are all valid. But if you are like me, and just want to reduce your episodes to a more manageable size, whilst retaining most of the quality, here’s how to do it.
PLEASE NOTE – This method will produce very nice quality videos, that will look good on 1080p TV’s, but may take 2 hours or more to process each hour of video, so my advice is to let it run whilst you are sleeping each night. Once you have ripped your Disks to MKV files with Make MKV, Open Handbrake (You can download the latest version for free ) then press the source button and select the file you want to convert, or if you want to do a batch of files, select the folder that contains all of your ripped MKV’s. Handbrake will import them all, but you will only see the first one. Now it’s time to make some adjustments to the settings. All of your settings should look like the above screen grab – Click it to enlarge.
Set the output format to MKV File 2. Click the button that says “Video”. Make sure the video codec is H.264 (x264) 3. The frame rate should be “Same as Source” and Constant Framerate should be selected. Check Constant Quality and adjust the slider until the RF number goes to 20 5. For the encoder options, slide the preset slider to Very Slow.
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Trust me, it takes a while, but the quality is far superior, and usually yields a smaller file size. Unfortunately it is a trade off for speed vs quality.
Like I said, run it while you are sleeping. Leave “Fast Decode” unchecked. Set Tune to Film 8.
Set Profile to High 9. Set Level to 3.1 10. Now click the “Picture Settings” button in the top right side of the window. A new window will open. Change all of your settings look like this 11. Whilst in the picture settings window, click “Filters” and change all of your settings to look like these as well. Denoise and Deblock will make the picture look SO much better when viewed on larger 1080p TVs.If you are in the USA you can skip this step, but for the rest of us, we need to know if our video is progressive or interlaced (the method used to draw each frame of video).
If your video is progressive, you can skip this step, but if it is interlace, you will definitely want to de-interlace the video before you watch it on a 1080 screen, otherwise you will see all kinds of ugly horizontal lines in fast moving scenes like the image below. (If you dont know whether your video is interlaced or progressive, Mac users can use to find out, and Windows users can use to find out) If your video is interlaced, make sure “Deinterlace” is checked and select “Slower” for best results. Now you can close out the Picture Settings window and select the “Audio” tab in the main window. I am a real Audiofile, I love the Dolby Digital and DTS 5-7 channel audio tracks in movies, so I select “Auto PassThru”. But, if regular 2 channel Stereo is ok for you, you can configure that in this area if you want. I figure you are converting a DVD, so you might as well have the best sound quality available. Just select the Dolby Digital or DTS sound track from the drop down window, and choose “Auto Passthru” 13.
Click the “Subtitles” tab and select none 14. Click the “Chapters” tab and make sure “Create Chapter Markers” is un-checked. You are now ready to start encoding. If you are only doing one file, just press the “Start” button and Handbrake will start encoding.
If you are doing a batch of files, open the File Menu and select “Add All Titles To Queue” 16. Press the “Show Queue” button to see all your files waiting to be encoded 17. Press the “Start” button and your encoding session will begin.