MacTheRipper Alternative: an Indispensible Tool for Mountain Lion It is generally known that MacTheRipper enjoys a high reputation for its great abilities to remove the DVD copy protection and region code and to backup commercial DVD movies to hard drive in VOB format for free. However, with the release of Apple’s new operating system, Mac OS X Mountain Lion in July, 2012, MacTheRipper seams nail-biting at it. In this case, many Mac users turn to a MacTheRipper alternative for Mountain Lion to rip DVDs smoothly on this new Mac OS. Here, a paid MacTheRipper Lion alternative, MacX DVD Ripper Pro, is introduced and highly recommended for its powerful features, high output quality and easy-to-use interface. Below is a brief comparison between free DVD Ripper for Mac and the alternative to MacTheRipper Mountain Lion. [TABLE="width: 710"] [TR] [TD]Main features [/TD] [TD]MacX DVD Ripper Pro [/TD] [TD]MacTheRipper [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Platforms (Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard/Lion/Mountain Lion) [/TD] [TD]Y [/TD] [TD]N (doesn’t support the latest version Mountain Lion) [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Supported DVD (DVD, ISO image) [/TD] [TD]Y [/TD] [TD]N (DVD disc only) [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Supported output formats (MP4, QT, MOV, FLV, H.264, MPEG, M4V, AVI XviD/DivX, MKV, MPEG-2, Video_TS etc) [/TD] [TD]Y [/TD] [TD]N (The output formats are saved as Video_TS) [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Supported devices (iPhone 4S, iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPad 2, iPad 3, iTunes, iPod touch 4, iPod classic, iPod touch, iPod nano, Apple TV, PSP, Android, HTC, Sumsung, XOOM, Galaxy Tab, etc.) [/TD] [TD]Y [/TD] [TD]N (Only copy DVD to hard drive) [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Rip encrypted or copy-protected DVD (Remove all types of copy protected DVD such as CSS encryption, Sony ARccOS encryption, RCE Region protection, Disney X-project DRM, etc.) [/TD] [TD]Y [/TD] [TD]Y [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Copy function (Backup DVD to to a single MPEG-2 without quality loss) [/TD] [TD]Y [/TD] [TD]N [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Advanced parameter setting (Flexibly define video/audio parameters to control conversion quality, such as video bitrate, video resolution, frame rate, audio volume, increase or decrease video quality, add letter box or stretch to full screen, change the output video aspect ratio, etc.) [/TD] [TD]Y [/TD] [TD]N [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Import videos to iMovie and edit them [/TD] [TD]Y [/TD] [TD]N [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]Trim function (rip and trim video segment from DVD, extract audio and snapshot images from DVD) [/TD] [TD]Y [/TD] [TD]N [/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD]price [/TD] [TD]34.95 [/TD] [TD]for free [/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] In the table, you make a conclusion that this MacTheRipper alternative is more than worth the extra cost and apparently takes the upper hand since it not only supports ripping any DVDs to various formats including MP4, MOV, FLV, AVI, etc on Mac OS X Mountain Lion, but also works like a charm in editing and trimming functions although it is a paid program. With this alternative to MacTheRipper Mountain Lion, users can enjoy any DVD movies on iOS 6 based devices like iPhone 4/4S, iPad 2/iPad 3,iPod, etc anytime anywhere. How to Use MacTheRipper alternative to Rip DVD on Mountain Lion Step 1: Load DVD by Clicking "DVD Disc" or "DVD Path" button Download and run this MacTheRipper alternative for Mountain Lion, click "DVD Disc" or "DVD Path" button to import the DVD on your Mac OS Mountain Lion. Step 2: Choose Output Format. Select the output format as you want. With the help of DVD ripper for Mac, you can easily rip DVD to the video formats you desire like MP4, iTune, MOV, Music, MPEG, etc. Step 3. Choose Output Folder Click "Browse" button in output setting area and select a destination folder to save your converted video. Step 4. Start Ripping Click the "Start" button to start ripping DVD on Mountain Lion with the MacTheRipper lion alternative.
I use iMedia Converter Deluxe for Mac to rip my DVDs. It handles a lot of DVDs others won't and it can recover scratched DVDs that no other software will dare to try. Free trial if you want to give it a go, and it's very useful for converting DVDs to mp4, m4v so that way they're compatible with iTunes, quicktime, iPod, iPad and fully compatible with OS 10.8 Mountain Lion