How to Rip CSS Protected DVD to Hard Drive iPhone iPad and Android

What is CSS?

CSS stands for Content Scramble System and was used to prevent the commercial DVDs from being illegally copied, shared, etc. The purpose of CSS is two fold:

• It prevents byte-for-byte copies of an MPEG (digital video) stream from being playable since such copies do not include the keys that are hidden on the lead-in area of the protected DVD.

• It provides a reason for manufacturers to make their devices compliant with an industry-controlled standard, since CSS scrambled disks can not play on noncompliant devices. Anyone wishing to build compliant devices must obtain a license, which contains the requirement that the rest of the copy-protection system be implemented.

You may be not familiar with this copy protection term, but you may have experienced the troubles it brought: when you want to rip CSS protected DVD to hard drive for backup, or rip CSS protected DVD to iPhone iPad Android to watch on the go, you got unread error or the converted files usually out of order.

How to remove CSS DVD protection for backup?

There are plenty of commercial products available on the market today that allow you to remove CSS protection so that you can make a personal backup copy of DVDs you have legally purchased. One of the best DVD backup software applications is called MacX DVD Ripper Pro, which is highly compatible with CSS-protected DVD, even Region Code Enhanced (RCE), User Operation Prohibition (UOP), Disney X-project DRM Sony ARccOS DVD protection. It can rip copy protected DVD to Hard Drive as MP4, WMV, FLV, MOV, MPEG, MP3, etc., or rip protected DVD to portable devices, such as iPhone 5S/5C/5, iPad 4/Mini, iPod, Apple TV, Android, PSP, PS3 and more.

Four Steps to rip CSS protected DVD to Hard Drive iPhone iPad and Android

Firstly, please download and install this DVD ripping software on your computer before ripping copy protected DVDs.

Step 1: Import DVD movie
Launch this DVD ripper for Mac and import your CSS protected DVD by clicking "DVD Disc" button. DVD ripper will read and analysis the DVD info.

Step 2: Choose output format
Rip CSS protected DVD to hard drive, you can choose any widely used format like MP4, AVI, MOV, MPEG, MP3, etc. Also, this application offers optimized profiles for iPhone 5S/5C/5, iPad 4/Mini, Galaxy S4, HTC One, Google Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD, etc, so that you can rip protected DVD to iPhone iPad Android for playback on the go.

Step 3: Select output folder
Click the "Browse" button to choose the path where you want to save the output files in.

Step 4: Start ripping
Hit the "RUN" button to start ripping CSS protected DVD. After a period of conversion, you can import and play DVD movie on your devices anywhere anytime.