How to Rip a Protected DVD on a Mac Computer Without DVD Drive

Apple now seems nonchalant to the removal of DVD drive for the sake of shrinking its computer size. Neither MacBook Air nor new MacBook Retina come with a drive. But movie buffs can't thoroughly ignore it, especially when they want to rip a DVD on a Mac as a digital copy to save battery power and watch the movie without carrying around discs. So how to rip a DVD on a Mac computer, in particular there isn't a drive at all? Just follow the DVD rip guide on Mac OS.

 

Q1: HOW TO RIP A PROTECTED DVD ON A MAC WITH/WITHOUT DISC DRIVE

[Solution] Use MacX DVD Ripper Pro: Dealing with the hot Hollywood movies on Mac can be intricate as these DVDs are encrypted with copy protections that you cannot bypass using common Mac DVD rippers. One feasible option is to circumvent the copy protection from a DVD and rip the unencrypted DVD on a Mac in a digital file format by taking advantages of MacX DVD Ripper Pro.

Specifically designed for Mac users, this DVD ripper has the knack for tackling all DVD copy protections, say CSS, region code, Sony ARccOS, Disney X-project DRM and enables to rip a DVD on a Mac computer readable format MP4/MOV/M4V as well as other mainstream formats like AVI, WMV, FLV, MKV, MPEG4, H264, MP3 and more with high quality reserved. But how to rip a DVD on a Mac like 2015 new Macbook, MacBook Air Retina, MacBook Pro or iMac 5K in case there is no drive using MacX DVD Ripper Pro. Just follow the DVD rip tutorial on Mac below.

 

Prior to the steps of ripping a DVD on a Mac in case there is no DVD drive, please get an external DVD drive such as Apple's $80 model USB SuperDrive, or a drive as cheap as $30-$40 on Amazon. Plug the drive into a Mac with a USB cable, pop in a DVD you need to rip on a Mac. But if you have a Mac computer with the drive, please jump to the following steps to handle DVD conversion on Mac OS X with the best DVD ripper for Mac.

Relatively, MacX DVD ripper Pro is rising and potential to be the best DVD copy software. But someone are still unfamiliar with the steps of how to copy a DVD. Never mind! Here I will show you the simplest way of DVD copy with MacX DVD Ripper Pro.

1 Free Download DVD ripper for Mac OS X (EI Capitan included), install and open it. Hit the "DVD Disc" to load your DVD movie for further rips.

2Choose the Mac supported format like MP4, MOV, or M4V from the pop-down window. Besides the ability to rip DVD on Mac QuickTime, iTunes, iMovie, iDVD, iOS9 based devices like iPhone 6/6 Plus, iPad Air 2, iPad Mini 3, iPod touch 5, Apple TV 3, this DVD ripping software for Mac is also infused with another 400+ preset profiles, ranging from Android phones, Windows tablets to game consoles.

3 Choose the output folder to save the ripped DVD movie by clicking the "Browse" button.

4Press the "RUN" button to start to rip a DVD on a Mac (Yosemite, EL Chapitan included). Within a few minutes only, you will be able to watch movies on a plane, in a coffee shop or wherever you go without lugging around an external drive.

 

Q2: HOW TO RIP A DVD ON A MAC FOR FREE WITH/WITHOUT DISC DRIVE (HOMEMADE ONLY)

[Solution] Use Handbrake: Handbrake is so far one of the most favorite open-source DVD ripper for Mac and Windows. It offers a myriad of options and settings for mainstream devices. It is the optimal choice to rip a homemade DVD on both Mac and Windows. But how to rip a DVD on a Mac with Handbrake if there isn't a disc drive?

All you have to do is just insert a DVD to leave Handbrake analyzing it. This Mac DVD ripper software divides DVD into logical groups called Titles. You can hit the Preview Window button on the toolbar to check whether it is the right title. In many cases, Handbrake rip DVD that is only homemade or unprotected. So if you come across a newly released DVD, the title will be often chosen wrong or handbrake crashes time and time again.

Tips: in case your Mac is devoid of disc drive, please buy an external DVD drive as it is suggested above. Or you can set up a Mac to share DVD from a Mac with built-in or external optical drive as below.

1 Choose Apple mune Apple menu on a Mac that has an optical drive > Hit System Preferences.

2 Press Sharing icon in the System Preferences window > select the DVD or CD Sharing > Choose Ask me before allowing others to use my DVD drive.

3 Insert the disc into the optical drive.

4 On the computer with no drive, hit the Remote Disc under Devices into a Finder window sidebar. Double-click the computer's icon and click Connect to see the contents of the DVD available from that computer.

Note:
1. The Computer with optical drive must have Mac OS X V 10.4.10 or later.
2. You cannot share it using DVD Sharing in case the DVD is copy protected.
3. Make sure both the Mac computers are on the same network.

 

With all the settings done, you can use Handbrake to rip DVD to Mac computer. And then store the movie you just ripped for the plane ride or share it with your friends with a flash drive. Please refer to other Mac software to rip DVD to AVI, MOV, FLV, WMV, M4V and more as Handbrake only supports ripping DVD to MP4 and MKV formats.

Q3: HOW TO COPY A DVD ON A MAC OS X

[Solution] Use Mac's Disk Utility application. Most of you may want to make DVD copies from any DVDs with no copy protection. But how to rip a DVD on a Mac using Disk Utility? Follow the tips below to copy the information from the DVD to the hard drive and then burn the DVD disc image to a blank DVD you just insert.

1 Insert the DVD to you want to rip into a Mac.

2 Open Disk Utility inside the Applications. Select DVD from the column list on the left, press the New Image icon at the top of the Disk Utility window.

3 Choose a name and a destination in the Save As box. Please make sure you have enough hard drive space to rip the DVD on your Mac. Hit the DVD/CD master in the Image Format drop-down menu >Choose "None" in the "Encryption" > Click Save.

4 Return to Disk Utility after copying DVD to your drive. Eject the original DVD you're your Mac.

5 Insert a writable DVD into your Mac. Hit the new Disc Image on the left of the Disk Utility window. Click "Burn" in the main window. You can choose the burn speed here.

6 You can receive a conformation once the DVD is burned. Simply save your new Disk Image and you can make a copy on your Mac.