

Tip 1: You need an external Blu-ray drive for Blu-rays firstly Tip 2: If you want a preferred subtitle and audio displayed on the output Blu-ray and DVD movie, just choose from 'Subtitle' and 'Audio' dropdown menu Step 2. PCWorld is not responsible for any damages that result from this how-to. Here you can also import DVD discs, DVD folders, ISO files and IFO files to convert. You probably won’t face any legal consequences if you simply rip your legally purchased movie collection for your own use, but we’re just going to present the instructions and let you decide for yourself whether to follow the steps.

Such procedures currently occupy something of a legal gray area. Here’s how to use the HandBrake application to rip copies of your DVDs into whatever format you like, so you can play the movies wherever and however you want.ĭisclaimer: To rip encrypted DVDs, you’ll need the DVD43 plug-in, which circumvents the publisher’s digital rights management technology. He then accused me of really being a desktop guy. I countered that, while I was also a command line guy, I do my DVD ripping with HandBrake. My friend, being a command line guy, explained how he did it. Although new disc releases with Digital Copy come with one free digital version of the movie, you need some outside help for dealing with DVDs that were released before Digital Copy became mainstream. Over on yon Facebook, I was taking part in a discussion about ripping DVDs to video files on your computer using Linux.

It was originally developed in 2003 by Eric Petit to make ripping DVDs to a data storage device easier. Addicted to movies? You can watch video on your tablet, smartphone, or portable media player, of course–but since none of those gadgets have optical drives, you can’t put any of your DVDs into them. HandBrake is a free and open-source transcoder for digital video files.
