Comparison of DVD ripping software

Date January 20, 2016 Author Catherine Category Comparison

There are so many DVD Ripping tool to help people rip and backup DVD on Windows 10 or Mac El Capitan so that they can play DVD movies on portable devices like iPhone SE, iPhone 7, Galaxy S7 without DVD Player. However, facing with so many DVD Ripper, some people just get confused which one to choose. So here we made a detailed comparison of nealy all top-ranked DVD ripping tools in the market.

DVD Ripping is the process of copying audio or video content to a hard disk, typically from removable media such as compact disc DVD, although the word refers to all forms of media. This process can remove DVD copy protection and shift the formats from disc-based content to digital version format so that people can transfer the DVD video to NAS, Media Server and other Home Network to build a complete Home Theater and broadcast the video in many streaming options.

However, due to the encryption in commercial DVDs such as Content Scramble System/ARccOS Protection), it is not easy as you imaged to copy the content in discs. The protection prevents access to the files unless you use a ripping software with decryption ability. Moreover, DVD files are often larger so a professional DVD ripping software should usually offers the ability to re-encode the content, with some quality loss, so that it fits in smaller files.

Actually, there are many DVD ripping softwares in the market that can break the copy protection and extract the movie title off the disc. Too many choices makes people confuse which one they should choose. So here this article lists some popular DVD ripper softwares capable of ripping and converting DVD discs, ISO image files or DVD folders to computer, mobile handsets and media players supported file formats and put things in perspective to convenient to pick out the suitable one for you.

System support/minimum-requirements, interface & programmin

This table lists the operating systems that different DVD rippers can run on without emulation and/or compatibility layer(s).

Disabling DRM

Input files supported

Output files

The compare result performed in the table presents that the DVD ripping programs developed by Pavtube Studio, like Pavtube ByteCopy <review > and Pavtube BDMagic, performs well. Pavtube DVDAid is a little weaker than the former two but is still more powerful than the open source Handbrake. In addition, WinX DVD Ripper and Aimersoft DVD Ripper are sole good choices.

About Legality

When the material being ripped is not in the public domain, and the person making the rip does not have the copyright owner’s permission, then such ripping may be regarded as copyright infringement. However, some countries either explicitly allow it in certain circumstances, or at least don’t forbid it. Some countries also have fair use-type laws which allow unauthorized copies to be made under certain conditions. As mentioned above, circumventing copy protection mechanisms, such as the encryption used on most commercial DVDs, may also be illegal in many countries.