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HelpWhen HandBrake won’t rip your DVDs
Reader Steven Pollock seeks a digital copy of a movie he recently purchased. He writes: I read Macworld’s story about how to rip DVDs with HandBrake and...
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HelpFrom DVD to iMovie to Facebook
Reader Ivan A. swears that the following issue is enough to cause him to pull out his hair. This now-nearly-bald reader writes: All I want to do is...
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Help 3Handbrake DVD fix for VLC 2.0
We’ve long loved HandBrake, the free, open-source for ripping DVDs. But if you’ve upgraded to the recently-released VLC Player 2.0, you may have...
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HelpRipping films with subtitles
An interested party who would prefer to remain anonymous is curious about ripping DVDs. The Unknown One writes: I am a college film teacher and occassionally...
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HelpRip CD box sets in iTunes
I’ve got a lot of music in my collection, and some of it in box sets of varying sizes. From a 37-disc set of Schubert’s lieder, to an 80-disc...
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NewsIs this the biggest music download ever?
UK-based classical label Hyperion Records has released what may be the biggest music download ever. The Complete Piano Music, by Franz Liszt, a digital...
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HelpFour reasons to rip CDs without iTunes
We recently ran an article explaining How to rip CDs with iTunes. For many people, iTunes is their main music management tool, and using this program...
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HelpSpiffy up your music with album art
The quickest way to find a CD in a pile of jewel cases is by looking for its familiar cover. Similarly, you can use Cover Flow in iTunes to scroll...
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Reviews
HandBrake still a rockin’ rippin’ application
When, back in late 2006, we last looked at the free DVD-ripping tool HandBrake, it had just turned 0.9.0. And for its 0.9.0 birthday it gained greater...
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Rip audio tracks from your DVDs
If you’re a music fan, you probably have a number of DVDs of concerts by your favorite artists. And you may want to listen to the music from these...
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Blu-ray ripping on the Mac
In the past, we’ve written a lot about ripping your DVDs in order to watch them on an iPhone or an Apple TV. The most-recent version of HandBrake...
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Reviews
New: Olive+THIEL HD music system connects to speakers via Ethernet
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Hands-on with HandBrake 0.9.4
Getting a movie from a DVD into iTunes isn’t nearly as simple as ripping music from a CD. Thanks to the copy protection on commercial DVDs (and...
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Missing VisualHub? Stomp your videos instead
A year ago, indie developer shop Techspansion shut down, and the Mac lost VisualHub and iSquint, two mighty heroes of video conversion. Though they...
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Ripping your unprotected DVDs
We have a long history of discussing ways for ripping the commercial DVDs that you own—from our DVD Ripping FAQ to Jon Seff’s Convert Video For...
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Beyond HandBrake’s defaults
If you’re a Mac user interested in ripping your commercial DVDs to a format playable on an Apple TV, iPod, or iPhone, the free video transcoder,...
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Judge weighs testimony in RealDVD copy case
A federal judge is now considering whether to permit sales of RealDVD, after testimony on a pretrial injunction ended Thursday. That injunction...
