[BNM] Mac DVD ripping tools

[Barry Bloye]

On 20/06/07, Jason Bailey wrote:
> I've been sent some bootleg gigs on DVD from VHS. I want to use iMovie/iDVD
> on my macbook to add a menu and chapters etc. I'm being thick but can
> anyone suggest a free tool to rip (uncopyrighted DVD-R) the DVD content to
> a format suitable for use with iDVD etc. Have I got to rip the DVDs to
> mpeg/avi/qt to use with iDVD/iMovie and back again? Won't I lose some
> quality doing this?

I've heard good things about Handbrake (http://handbrake.m0k.org/),
which might be suitable for what you want to do.

As for losing quality, you could rip to AVI, so at least you'd not be
adding more compression.

Baz