Rip Copy-Protected DVDs with Free Software for Windows 10, Mac OS X or Linux 

Thanks a lot! I set up a Home-NAS with Emby yesterday and hand no clue how to get my movies into it... Tried a lot of apps and watched a lot of tutorials but yours is the only one that's actually working! Great job and very good explanation!

Quite frankly, I just watched 2 movies, took a nap, had my dinner and went out for a jog while waiting for you to get the the POINT!

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It's 2023, and I just followed the steps that Robbie provided, and can confirm that it works. Awesome, I have about 700+ dvds that I have never converted, so I am super happy. Thank you so much!!!!!!

Summary: Rip DVDs with Handbrake and stream anywhere with PLEX. To enable the ripping of copyright protected DVDs via Handbrake, follow instructions from 10:46 forward....

Blah blah blah✂️ Cut the extra commentary and get to the point. We just want to remove the copyright protection and rip the disc quickly. Just Start there and leave the rest out👀

Thank you for doing the digging to find the "Hidden" VLC treasures and for explaining that most DVD's only really require Very Fast 480p 30FPS encoding. I didn't know that Handbrake just used DLL's copied to it's directory. Keep Broadcasting!!

This is great, thanks! I'm tired of my kids ruining DVD's that I paid $20-30 for, that we won't get to watch again. Having a regular video file that I can either stream over PLEX, put onto a USB stick (because more devices can do that now), or just burning more copies of the movie after my kids scratch up the disc will be great! A lot of people are complaining about "less yak" but I actually think it's nice that he's explaining to people who otherwise might not understand. Wish it would have just had a disclaimer: "If you're pretty tech savvy and already understand how this works, skip ahead to about 6 minutes"

Downloaded the program, added the dll file - copied a dvd that I own---beautiful picture and GREAT sound. Thank you so much.

Very useful even after 5 years. Nice one thanks

I appreciate this video so much. Thank you, you guys!

Thank you so much! We are going full-time in our RV and can't take all our DVDs in their current form. This will allow us to put them on some external hard drives so we can still take them with us without all the bulk. You have been the best instructive video on this topic.

entire video is excellent, very thorough for those of us starting out, very much appreciated

Super useful video. Thank you for your time and effort putting this together.

I like having movies on a shelf because I get a sense of pride from my collection. However, I do love streaming because of how convenient it is.

Thank you for the video. Exactly what I needed to be able to watch my Creepshow DVD that's a different region to where I live.

I'm sure you're tired of hearing how the video took a while to get to the point, so... thanks for the video, there was a lot of useful information that enabled me to get the job done. I appreciate the effort you put into copy and editing.

Very helpful. Love the step by step instructions. Gained a new sub.

Thank you so much!!! End of 2020 and still works!!!

Thank you for the informative video. Very well explained and showing every step. This is how it should be done. Great job.

I started off with Handbrake years ago, but now have and use a licensed copy of MakeMKV as my primary program for pulling content from discs. I went this way because I want the original quality of the content from disc since this is mainly in home streaming for me. I still play discs too, especially for TV shows which can be a royal pain to pull from disc and organize. I've even gotten into 4k blu-ray via an Xbox one s and 4k TV. So, in the end, I like to keep a mix of tech as I still make use of it, at times. Great video have a great day!

Hell yeah, copy all my blue movies to DVD, time to get Barbara and the puncture repair kit out wooohoooo

To be fair that tremors pack is solid

Excellent step-by-step tutorial -- thank you!

Thank you! When I downloaded and used Handbrake before, everytime I finished decoding the file, the end result was super glitchy and messy, downloading the file you told us too worked a charm! Thanks :)

This video took years to get started but damn once it did, that is one hell of an effective method! Best I have seen so far!!!

Thank you, this video is very helpful!

Thank you for showing how to use and install decrypter. Works awesome.

Works great!....Thanks for complete explanation on "how to do's" !....

Personally, I thank you for doing this. I've been looking for a good "how-two". Have started copying my library to migrate to a SSD for the PlexPi

Thank you. It didn't finish yet but if it works you guys are amazing and extremely helpful.

Thank You! This really helped me a lot.

Are you able to do a video walk through like this for Mac?

0:54 Ooohh!!! That forced laugh

Great Video, I followed the instructions now I'm ripping my DVDs to my Plex server I built.

Thanks so much 2020 and this still works. I have a couple dvds I wanted to save to my computer so I can watch anytime don’t have much space for dvds have to store away in boxes

Thank you. My dvd collection is under attack by my wife's dogs. They love to chew the cases. So I need to convert about 2500 DVDs to flash drive. This is a big help.

If being boring was a olympic sport this pair would be gold medalists.

Great tip! I'm gonna convert my old movies into mp4 files!

I've watched a lot of videos like this and this was the only one that worked. Thanks a lot.

I finally got my system together but I have a question. I was ripping Cocoon The Return in Super HQ (with the recommended pixels). It took over 19 hours to rip. I have 4 gb of ram and an 8 tb hard drive. Why should it take that long? I am not tech savvy so need any help available. Thank you in advance! Kat

Dvd's are still great for massive backups... Just store them in the dark!

These are moments ill never get back.

Very interesting and informative video. This is making me want to rip my large anime/movie collection to a series of hard drives....so that i can not just back it up but also share it out to my other devices in the house. Just need to figure out how to rip blurays now.

Get to the point.

I just downloaded MakeMKV and had the same issue backing up some of my DVD's when using it... So I just thought I'd try the idea in this video. I found and copied the libdvdcss-2.dll file to the MakeMKV folder (located on my PC in; C:\Program Files (x86)\MakeMKV ) When I tried MakeMKV again it began reading the DVD's it failed to read before. So thanks for the video and idea :)

Thank you, thank you, thank you, here it is the 29th of November 2017 and this sage advice still works!

This is a very useful video. I did as you illustrate and it’s working. Eventually I got the solution that I looking for through this video. Thank you very much.

Still have my VHS tapes, you think DVD's take up real estate!

Just a few points. Yes Handbrake is needed to convert your VOB files to MP4 (or MKV if you wanna be that fussy) and is probably the best converter on the market by far (I use it for converting U-Tube videos the lot). Me personally I prefer MP4 for the editing ability is much easier in Windows for the metadata without additional software. But you failed to point out the subtitle options must be fixed otherwise no subtitles will be saved with the MP4 rip and on top of that an annoy "chapter 1" etc will be burned onto the image of the movie or is the only subtitle option you have. Finally, I would rather use DVD Shrink to rip the VOB files from the disk and then convert to MP4 using Handbrake. The reason is that DVD Shrink has great features, will bypass the copyright protection without needing to add any dll's and in selecting which audio tracks and subtitle tracks you want to keep in your final MP4 file, which Handbrake picks up automatically and includes them all. There are tutorials online for this as well. As to the actual legality of this is, as said, a very grey area. If you have the original disk and raided by the police they can do nothing. However, if after 5 years you have converted your copy of the DVD and that DVD no longer is in your possession (by loss, damage or natural disaster) and you also do not have the original purchase receipt (who the hell keeps them lol) then technically the police can charge you for piracy. Just a warning for people who intend to do this. For me, I am doing it and have over 1500 titles on 4 TB of hard drive space, including all of the Star Trek TV series and many many more. The one point not noted is the amount of time it does really take. Unless you really have a powerful system (at least Quad core) and enough RAM you will be waiting hours to covert one movie unless you want really bad quality on your beautiful 60 inch screen. As to Blu-Ray that is, as said, a little more complicated, but not that much. For that you need the software called MakeMKV. As the name suggests it takes the Blu-Ray files and stores them as a MKV file. It also gets past the copyright protection software so no need for any additional tricks. The downside is that is copies the movie file from a Blu-Ray byte by byte - that is a movie file will end up been up to 20+ GB. But luckily, again, Handbrake comes to the rescue and converts that file to a MP4 or MKV that is much smaller without too much of a loss in quality. The only issue I have had personally with this approach with Blu-Rays is the time it takes to convert (large amount of time because of the size of the file) and the subtitles get all messed up on some movies because of the unique way subtitles are done in Blu-Ray. Any ways, not a critique of this video, just pointing out other options for people to explore. Cheers

Thanks it helps me a lot!

I saw that copy of Tremors in your hands. I have that very edition in my collection. Life just isn't the same without a few graboids here and there. Nice to know you appreciate them also. :-)

Once you rip your media to digital format, do a backup version too. Really, truly, do a backup.

Need less yak and more fact

Slow start, but useful. I was really pissed off and got mad that it was handbrake, then I saw you were adding something to it that I wouldve never found out about. Thanks

did it. worked like a charm. thank you !!!!

Why did he spend so much time explaining why this is a good idea. WE KNOW, GET TO THE POINT!!!

When the internet dies dvds and vhs will be worth money. We relied to much on digital services.

I just tried and still working, Thank you!

Thank you; I did as you explained, it works great!.

Thanks for this video. Still helping in Oct 2019.

Yo girl just sit down and say "ok" and nod from time to time

Great video. Very helpful. Thanks!

Thanks mate.. very usefull input you have there. Thanks very much.. To much dvd movies about to save here..

Lots of people have and use DVD players. Even VHS players. I know people who still have BetaMax, Laser disc players.

MakeMKV is the best software for ripping Blu-Rays and DVDs. It will rip a non-compressed file that also includes the original audio (typically DTS-HD Master Audio). No need for compiling or anything like that. It will also bypass all copyright BS. After watching the whole video I take it these people aren't exactly tech savvy.

Thank you! Great vid, though I confess I did fast forward to the juicy bits, I also appreciate the "yak" - it's there if I want it, but I can skip it too.

Thanks for the video which has solved my problem. Very clear and concise instructions. Much better than useless videos that go too fast and have no commentary, just loud rubbish music. Can't believe the ungrateful and unfair comments.

...DVDs are still cool...

in March 2019 still the same version of libdvdcss

To anyone who has been having trouble like myself with handbrake even after the VLC workaround, I've discovered a fix. I'm not entirely sure how it's exactly working but here it is: after doing all the instructions in the above video. 1. Reboot your system. 2. Download winx ripper (free) 3. Open winx ripper and load the source your attempting to rip. 4. Open handbrake and now attempt to open the source and it should be okay- worked for me hope it works for you. Just make sure winx stays open.

Thanks for showing me a way to transfer my dvds thanks guys.

What happened to Fred Durst?? What a transformation!!

OMG! There are 4 tremors movies? I did not know that.

I have 3 external hard drives, and amassed a collection of about 450 films. I don't use handbrake all the time but it is very helpful. I use another DVD ripper made by Aiseesoft so I have 2 options

Great job, this was really useful!

I still use a dvd recorder with vhs tapes. Still works.

Computer science for dummies: DVD entertainment is very important.

God, I'm old. I have A PS3 and Xbox 1 that will play BD's, a BD player, a DVD/VHS player/burner, A Xbox HD external drive (got like 30 HD DISC's. I have a BD and DVD player/burner in my PC. Ripping software and a ASUS NAS box with 4x20tb drives, an expansion box with 4x12tb drives. I'm sitting here right now ripping movies. A relative decided they didn't want to 500+ dvd's they had so I got them and going to put them on my NAS box. I've looked at other frontends but I've found Plex is my goto media serve. And I said I'm old because not may 60+ somethings do what I do for fun.

Thank you so much for this, super easy.

People were doing this 10+ years ago. I remember doing this to my whole collection so I could sell them, that was 2009. You should have made a video on how to rip a 4K movies.

OR you could just plug in your dvd player. Certainly inserting a disk is way easier than all of this work. I think this falls under the category of "I do it because I can", not because you need to.

It works for me! Thank you so much!

Thank you. Been trying to figure out how i was going to put my movies on my ftp server for ages.

I always keep physical media of my favorite franchises for collecters value. Other bunch of movies & series on my HDD. 😂

So this is what Fred Durst has been up to.

Thank so much for your great details video. Big help for me

Great help, I was wondering why mine was pixeled, now I know why. The protection file was required.

tnx, also for other nice features, google ZillaTube

Can you do it on a mac. I can find the handbrake file to copy the libdvdcss file. Thanks

TREMORS!!!!! definitely worth saving!

Yeah, rip all of your DVDs....... none of this HD downloading/streaming malarkey.

Confused why a show named "LinuxTechShow" is using Windows 10.

STILL WORKS!!! THANKS!

I watched every second of it because I liked the view.

why is everyone complaining about blu Rays taking up space lol. sure they do take up space but it's better than Netflix. not only will it be MUCH higher in quality but they have special features

Thanks for the help... The links still work May 18th 2019

Wow, such banter.

love this video great info really help me. thanks a lot

I use makemkv then handbrake