Do you have at hand a great number of DVD movie collections? Have you ever been frustrated by the scratched DVDs? To take good care of your DVDs, it is necessary to find an active and effective way to solve the problem. Backup DVD movies to hard disk is one of the best way to keep the DVDs safe. But problem raised after a Google search, quite a few tools claims to be the best DVD backup software to do this. It is hard to choose which one is the correct answer.
What worse is that it seems any of those software doesn't work on copying the DVD movies. What happened? You will probably be confused by the fact. Is there any problem with the DVDs or the software? Actually, there is no problem at all with your DVDs. The real reason is the DVD copy protections adapted for your DVDs, especially the latest DVD movies, like Alice in Wonderland, The Princess and the Frog, Twilight New Moon, 2012, etc. They are all well protected with new generation copy protections, which is totally distinct from the normal protections, such as CSS protected DVD, region 1-6, Sony ArccOS, Commercial DVD, etc.
Backup Protected DVD Movies to Hard Drive on Mac and Windows
The latest copy protections prevent those DVDs from ripping or backing up. However, solution is never far behind. DVD rippers from Digiarty Software could help you out, named WinX DVD Ripper for Mac and WinX DVD Ripper Platinum. They are designed for Windows and Mac users respectively to backup copy protected DVD movies to hard drive.
For Mac users, WinX DVD Ripper for Mac is a professional DVD decrypter and DVD ripper software which can backup protected DVDs to Mac as sMP4, MOV, iTunes video formats. You could also transfer the DVD videos to iPhone, DVD to iPod, DVD to iPad, DVD to Apple-TV, DVD to PSP, etc.
For Windows Users, WinX DVD Ripper Platinum (the upgraded version of WinX Free DVD Ripper to rip DVD to AVI) is a nice solution to backup copy protected DVD movies to AVI, WMV, MP4, FLV, MPEG, 3GP, iPhone, ipad, etc. You could download it to take a try right now.
How to Rip DVD to Mac, iPhone, iPod, iPad with DVD Ripper Software.
Then how to backup DVD movies to hard drive or rip DVD to other video formats? Below are the basic steps for Mac users to copy DVD. For Windows users, the user guide may be helpful.
The Tools You Need:
1. DVD player or DVD player software.
2. Download WinX DVD Ripper for Mac. The file size is only 9.18 MB, which will not cost too much time for downloading and installing.
Step One - Precheck the DVD Title Number
Play the DVD with DVD player software. When it comes to the movie (main content), please check the DVD title and record the title number.
Step Two - Select the Correct Title Number
1. Launch WinX DVD Ripper for Mac and import the DVD. You can load from DVD driver by clicking "DVD Disc" or from DVD folder by clicking "DVD Path".
2. Find the title number you record and check it. Then you are able to rip and backup DVD from the main content.
3. Select the output format as you wish, like DVD to AVI, DVD to MP4, DVD to iPod, DVD to iPhone, DVD to iPad, etc. If you just want to make a backup of DVD to hard drive without any quality loss, you could click Copy button.
4. Click "Browse" button in output setting area and select a destination folder to save your converted video.
5. Start ripping. You can view the conversion progress and are able to cancel the converting process at anytime.
Related WinX Products
WinX DVD Ripper Platinum: best HandBrake Alternative for DVD Ripping on PC, rips the content of DVDs to all popular video formats such as AVI, MOV, FLV, WMV, MPEG, MP4, 3GP, etc. It also owns the ability of ripping encrypted DVDs to Sony PSP, Apple iPhone 4, iPod, iPad, iTouch, Apple TV, Zune, Mobile phone, etc.
WinX HD Video Converter Deluxe: built in hundreds of A/V codecs and equipped with DVD Burner, Website Video Downloader function. As all-in-one HD Video Converter software, it helps you transcode among HD video formats like convert AVCHD M2TS to MKV, convert Blu-ray to MKV, MKV to MP4, etc. Moreover, it is embed with numerous profile settings for Apple, Sony, Microsoft portable devices as well as iOS, Android, Symbian mobile Phones. Convert MKV to iPhone, convert MKV to iPad are good examples.
WinX DVD Ripper for Mac : all-in-one Mac HandBrake Alternative for ripping DVD on Mac OS. It is designed to make perfect 1:1 DVD copy to hard drive and rip your DVD movies to iTunes, MOV, MP4, FLV, etc that playable on iPad, iPod, iPhone, Apple-TV, PSP and much more.
WinX HD Video Converter for Mac: professional HD Video converter for converting HD Videos on Mac OS, provides the perfect solution to convert Blu-ray videos and videos from HDTV and HD camcorders, like JVC, Panasonic, Sony and Cannon to other formats. Running perfectly on Mac OS X Tiger/Leopard/Snow Leopard.
