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How to rip DVDs and keep menus and extras

I'd like to rip my DVDs each to a single file I can import into iTunes so I can play them on my various Apple devices and not lose quality, extras, menus or surround sound (5.1 or 7.1) done with an Apple program. I see many ripping applications online that are Windows based. I need Mac. I want to have the same features and quality available on the one file as I would if I were playing the DVD on my DVD player.

I have an AppleTV2 (plugged into a 55" LED TV), iPad1 and iPhone4.

I'm also on Lion 10.7.4 now.

Is there such a Mac application that can do all this?

Mac Pro 3.0 GHz Quad-Core, iPad WiFi/3G, iPhone4, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 30" HP Display, 22" Cinema Display

Posted on Jun 24, 2012 3:17 PM

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Limnos

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Posted on Jun 24, 2012 3:38 PM

No program can rip DVDs to a format that keeps all you want to keep and play it on iTunes. The only way you can have it in computer format and play it like on a DVD player is to keep it in DVD format. If this is a home DVD you can do that just by copying all the files to a hard drive. If it is a commercially produced DVD just about all those have copy protection and we are not allowed by the terms of use of this forum to discuss doing that on a Mac. It is illegal by US law anyway.

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roaminggnome

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Nov 7, 2013 5:43 PM in response to ymsimon824

This question is a year and half old.

Likely a little late.

Jun 16, 2014 11:59 AM in response to ymsimon824

the question at hand (not the legallity of putting your purchased DVDs into digital format as that is 100% legal) is whether Apple will allow a similar conversion of the extra features of the DVD to be placed into digital format as they do with purchased movies .. obviously going forward you can purchase movies in iTunes and get the full features but for others why would someone want to purchase the movie twice (once on DVD and once in iTunes) .. the extras within iTunes would be a very nice feature if we could convert to them

i would love to see this happen for my DVD collection .. hopefully Apple will push out a conversion software

Chris CA

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Jun 16, 2014 3:56 PM in response to Lucid REM

Lucid REM wrote:

i would love to see this happen for my DVD collection .. hopefully Apple will push out a conversion software

They won't.

Sep 24, 2014 6:18 PM in response to Limnos

reeeeally late feedback sorry,

I have a DVD i made in film class years ago using a mix of first gen imovie and some films with final cut pro but burned all my works with a menu using iDVD onto two DVDS and back then I was a college student and didn't have enough for hard drive back ups of the original films and raw files of the movies. The 2 DVD's are the only record of my portfolio and hours and hours of work in some cases I don't have access anymore to my source material. I'd like to RIP copies of it for distribution to my friends and to post on a youtube type site but if its illegal to create a program and distribute a program that allows me to recover my own work, separate it back into individuals movies, and intellectually its mine inside and out, then the law seems to only have thought of the lobby and not the individual movie maker. I will find a way but in my searching to find a way I came across this thread and did not see any comments that mentioned as legit of a reason for the counter of the law as mine.

regards,

JBroccollii

Chris CA

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Sep 25, 2014 5:29 AM in response to JBroccollii

JBroccollii wrote:

but if its illegal to create a program and distribute a program that allows me to recover my own work

It's not.

It's "illegal" to break the encryption used on commercial DVDs.

If you own the copyright, then you can copy it however you want.

Qrush

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Mar 8, 2016 5:17 AM in response to Limnos

I have created an artwork-portfolio dvd and would like to present it on an ipad.

The portfolio was created using my own movies/motion art in Adobe Aftereffects (therefore not illegal) and made it into a DVD using Adobe Encore.

The portfolio has a DVD Menu where one can select different chapters.

The dvd works perfect with every kind of DVD player.

I would like to have the menu work with touch gestures on an ipad, therefore i would like to know if there is a way to play DVDs on an ipad.

Itunes does not allow the menu structure, thats why i'm looking for an alternativer solution.

thanks in advance,

que

Chris CA

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Mar 8, 2016 5:52 AM in response to Qrush

Qrush wrote:

I would like to have the menu work with touch gestures on an ipad, therefore i would like to know if there is a way to play DVDs on an ipad.

There isn't.

How to rip DVDs and keep menus and extras