However, it has been in a seemingly perpetual beta state for many years, during which you can get a new free license key every month. Supposedly, MakeMKV will eventually cost something once it’s out of beta. MakeMKV can also defeat copy protection, allowing you to rip commercial discs.
While you could use the raw video, ripped from disc, to watch your film, it makes no sense to waste that much space. A DVD holds about 4 GB or 8 GB (Depending on whether it’s a single-layer disc or a dual-layer disc), and a Blu-ray anywhere from about 25 GB to over 100 GB. When you rip DVDs, you rip the raw video from the disc, then you convert it to the size and format you want to use. In the rest of this article, when I discuss ripping DVDs, I mean either DVDs or Blu-ray discs. If you feel that it’s right to rip DVDs and Blu-rays that you own, then read on to find out how.
Fair use suggests that you should be able to rip them for personal use, but in some countries this is patently illegal.
You can’t do this with Apple software, of course, since ripping DVDs involve a gray area of copyright law. You can certainly watch these discs the usual way, with a DVD player, but wouldn’t it be great to add them to your personal video library, so you can sync them to your iPad or iPhone and watch them anywhere? Ripping DVDs and Blu-rays on a Mac is simple it takes a bit more time than ripping CDs, but it’s not much more difficult. Many films are not available digitally, and DVDs and Blu-rays often come with special features that you may want to see. While you probably get a lot of your movies and TV shows digitally, you may still have a collection of DVDs and Blu-ray discs. How To How to Rip DVDs or Blu-rays and Add Them to Your Apple TV Library
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