How to Rip DVD with VLC Media Player on Mac

VLC player is a free and open source media player, streamer and encoder supporting many video files as well as DVDs.

The media player that fills all your needs. It can handle DVDs, (S)VCDs, Audio CDs, web streams, TV cards and much more. You don't need to keep track of a dozen codec packs you need to have installed. VLC has all codecs built-in. It comes with support for nearly all codec there is.

This guide will mainly focus on introducing its capability of converting DVDs on Mac OS.
You can download VLC media player here.

Get start to Rip DVD with VLC Player


Insert your DVD and run VLC Player. Then under Media click on Convert/Save.
The Open Media Window will appear and you want to click on the Disc tab. Check DVD, make sure the disc device field points to the optical drive with the DVD, and hit Convert/Save. You can select the start position by selecting the title and only record a specific chapter on the DVD




Click "convet /save" then a windows will pop up where you are allowed to select a location for the ripped file.
While you are browsing to the location to put the ripped file make sure to give it a name and a supported extension.


Conclusion: Overall, VLC is powerful in both video playing and streaming. But since it is a player at first, it has inevitably limited the range of input and output formats. Also, VLC does not support the DVD with internal encryption, which has also restricted its capability of processing the DVDs.

As an alternative to rip DVD, you can try Daniusoft DVD Ripper for Mac. While VLC Player is a player first and converter second, Daniusoft DVD Ripper is professional DVD conversion tool that does good at ripping DVD to VLC, MP4, MOV, AVI, etc. It supports a wide range of video format, media device, great output quality, etc.

Below is a quick start on how to use Daniusoft DVD Ripper for Mac.


Step1. Download and install DVD Ripping software Mac
Then, just insert your favorite DVD on the DVD-ROM and load your DVD files to Daniusoft DVD Ripper for Mac through "Load DVD".
Free Download DVD Ripper for Mac

Step2. Select Output Setting
Select output format from "format" drop-down list. Go to "Output" to set the output directory to save the converted files.

Step3. Convert DVD on Mac
When the settings are done, click the "Start" button to start DVD conversion.