HandBrake – Presets for particular target devices If you do not see the presets, click the “ Toggle Presets” button.

One of the nice things of HandBrake is the ability to work with presets, you will see them on the right. In this article you’ll find more details on how to fine-tune/tweak the settings.įirst, since we want to create an MP4 or MKV: Select the desired “ Format“. For your first DVD, you’d want to try the default settings as they are already pretty good, but you can fine tune the settings if you’d like. When ripping a DVD we basically convert (transcode) the DVD movie to a different file format and for this we will need to do a few settings. Keep in mind that the resulting file size for a normal movie is in the 1 -2 Gb size – make sure the destination drive has enough space available! You can change the location and filename as you see fit. Typically HandBrake will take a default location, like your desktop, and name the file based on what it found on the DVD (which can be a random guess). HandBrake – Select the movie to rip Step 4: DVD Conversion settings – Videoįirst we can set the destination of the result file. At the time of writing this article, this is the most recent version. Check the folders with the highest version numbers and work your way down until you find a version that has a “macosx” subfolder with the “libdvdcss.pkg” file in it – this would be the file needed to install libdvdcss. Note : libdvdcss versions can be found here, but it can be that newer versions do not have a compiled version for MacOS X available yet.

libdvdcss – install by double clicking the.

DMG file and dragging “ HandBrake” into the “ Applications” folder. DownloadsĪs usual, we offer the needed files for download but we highly recommend that you visit the listed sites below to make sure you get the latest version:

It’s a tiny download and installs in seconds. The creators of HandBrake were smart enough to not try to reinvent the wheel when it comes to decrypting (removing CSS) of the DVD and they use a library called libdvdcss. When using HandBrake, we have all we need in one application, with one tiny exception.

Handbrake libdvdcss mac