HandBrake works much much better and is FREE - varase

Handbrake and RipIt do two entirely different things, although there is some overlap in that they can both get through some DVD protection.

A DVD ripper (like RipIt or MacTheRipper) simply remove the protections on the DVD and create a disk image or file set to be burned to DVD or further processed by another program (like a DVD recompressor).

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Tuesday, May 26 2009 @ 01:42 PM PDT

HandBrake works much much better and is FREE - morepowerfulastronaut

HandBrake is great, but RipIt comes in handy in two situations where HandBrake comes up short. First, since HB uses VLC to decrypt DVDs, it can only handle CSS encrypted discs and can fail on discs with more advanced copy protection. RipIt will handle these discs, then you can feed the unprotected VIDEO_TS folder to HB for encoding. The second case is if you want to make a copy of a DVD to another DVD. HB does not have the option to rip a DVD in its original format. With RipIt, you can feed the output into an application like DTOX or Toast for compression and reburning without any additional encoding. With HB, you'd have to encode then re-encode to get a DVD copy. HandBrake and Ripit are both good apps and are most useful to me when used together. If you have no need for RipIt's perks, then by all means don't buy it, but giving it a one-star review is ridiculous, since you obviously don't understand what it does.

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Wednesday, May 27 2009 @ 04:18 AM PDT

HandBrake works much much better and is FREE - bfowl32

I couldn't agree more!

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Wednesday, May 27 2009 @ 06:00 AM PDT

HandBrake works much much better and is FREE - bfowl32

I have never had problems with RipIt. I use HandBrake usually because it produces only the movie and it uses much less space.

I have also used successfully HandBrake to copy RipIt files.

RipIt is much faster than HandBrake.

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Wednesday, May 27 2009 @ 05:58 AM PDT

HandBrake works much much better and is FREE - jeffhrsn

Spoken like someone who has NO idea what these two products do, or how they are different. Next.

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Thursday, May 28 2009 @ 10:18 PM PDT

HandBrake works much much better and is FREE - hh186jor

Here's a good deal on several utilities, including RipIt!

http://www.mupromo.com/deal/852/5801/bundle

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Friday, May 29 2009 @ 03:40 AM PDT

HandBrake works much much better and is FREE - werikblack

If you use HandBrake directly, it rips and encodes one DVD, which wastes my time swapping discs. If I rip a few hundred gigs of discs, then I can queue them up in HandBrake, so I'm using both (which is pretty normal). It's a lot easier to spend 30-40 minutes changing each disc while I'm awake and then queue them up for HandBrake to encode while I'm sleeping or away from home (in about realtime for each movie). The two apps are far from mutually exclusive. I'm encoding my entire DVD library, and I'd be wasting TONS of time if I were waiting for HandBrake to rip and encode disc by disc. RipIt is well worth the money and works better than MacTheRipper does at this point.

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Friday, May 29 2009 @ 07:26 AM PDT

The final result is all that matters - Diks Toosl

the inability to consistently provide rips that can be burned then viewed on a standalone player means RipIt is not yet a functional product.

It's a bloody shame (yes, I paid for it), but it's true nonetheless.

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Thursday, June 04 2009 @ 04:02 PM PDT

Mac the ripper is FREE and will do more - Gennx30

Good god, they should be giving this out free as a "my first app" app

ive used it for years. NEVER had an issue

just sayin

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Wednesday, June 03 2009 @ 12:23 PM PDT