Have a bunch of DVDs sitting around your house, apart from viewing them on your standard DVD Player, you may also wish to watch it on your phone, tablet or somewhere else. The solution is that you can rip them into a digital file format on your computer and then play it anywhere as you like. In the following part, we will show you how to rip DVD to computer using the swiss army knife of video conversion tools: Handbrake. However, the problem is that Handbrake does not defeat or circumvent copy protection, but most DVDs we buy from the store have copy protection. The good news is that removing of digital rights management (DRM) from DVDs using Handbrake was possible by installing VLC, a media player application that includes the libdvdcss library. Currently, Handbrake can remove DRM only after the user installs the latest version of libdvdcss.
Rip protected DVD with Handbrake by installing libdvdcss
Scan the disk fully, if the libdvdcss library file is not installed correctly on the Handbrake folder it will not finish the scan. Once the scanning of the disk is finished choose the right main title of the disk and select all the chapters that are necessary. Install Handbrake 1.0.0 Libdvdcss to Rip DVD on macOS Sierra libdvdcss is a free and open source software library for unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the Content Scramble System (CSS). At the same time, the libdvdcss library is also able to read discs that have a different region than your drive. Since HandBrake developer removed libdvdcss from the version of 0.9.2, which means it is not able to decrypt protected DVDs on its own anymore. Luckily, you can install libdvdcss-2.dll to assist you to decrypt DVD CSS protection with HandBrake. I had assumed that I simply needed to install libdvdcss to get it. Vm and then install handbrake in that. Drive to re-install Mac OSX High Sierra on my late.
Install libdvdcss on Windows
First, you’ll need to download libdvdcss to your computer. For 32-bit versions of Windows, download this version. 64-bit users should download this version.
Copy the .dll file to your Handbrake program folder. If you used the default installation settings, this should be in C:Program FilesHandbrake.
After this, Handbrake will be able to read your encrypted DVDs.
Install libdvdcss on Mac
Installing libdvdcss is a little more complicated on macOS Sierra, because Sierra or macOS High Sierra introduced a security feature called System Integrity Protection that won’t let you install libdvdcss. There’s a relatively easy way to install this, using the Terminal and some software called Homebrew, which is a command-line app installation system.
Open Terminal (it’s in your /Application/Utilities folder), and paste this line of code into the app. Make sure this entire command is on one line; the space between the first part and the second part is a space, not a line break:
/usr/bin/ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)”
Press Return and follow the instructions. Homebrew software will be downloaded and installed. If you haven’t previously installed the Xcode command line tools, they will also be downloaded and installed. (These are a few tools that are part of Apple’s developer software.) This process may take a couple of minutes; don’t worry if Terminal stops giving feedback while it’s downloading and installing these tools.
When this has completed, paste this command into Terminal and press Return. This tells Homebrew to install the libdvdcss file:
brew install libdvdcss
This takes just a few seconds. When this is completed, quit Terminal.
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Best alternative to rip DVD with Handbrake by installing libdvdcss
Obviously, the process of using Handbrake to rip DVD by installing libdvdcss on Windows or Mac may be a little confusing or overwhelming for some users especially some beginner users. In addition, the installed libdvdcss library will only assists you to bypass the Content Scramble System (CSS) protection from commercial DVD disc, which may also included many other types of protection protection such as Region code, RCE, key2Audio, UOP, Macrovision, FluxDVD, Protect, ARccOS, AACS, BD+, ROM Mark, BD-Live, etc.
For those people who are looking for a powerful, simple to use and cross-platform DVD Ripper application as the best Handbrake alternative, we highly recommend Pavtube ByteCopy (get Mac version) to you.
The application can automatically bypass all the DVD copy protection listed above with its built-in disc decrypter in the background. In addition, it also keeps constant update with perfect support to break the new encryption used on many recently released DVD disc. You can load not only DVD disc, but also Video_TS folder and IFO/ISO image file into the application.
The DVD copying and digitizing process can be performed on the same interface and there are many different output options for you to choose. You can make a 1:1 full disc copy of DVD disc with original disc structure, a fast main movie copy without unwanted comments, trailers, ads, etc, a lossless multi-track MKV copy from DVD with all your desired subtitle languages and audio tracks. You can also choose to convert DVD to various popular SD and HD digital file formats or even devices and applications preset profile formats for viewing on computer on media player software, transfer and view on portable devices or stream to game consoles, TVs, etc.
Other beneficial features of Pavtube ByteCopy
– Flexibly adjust output profile parameters including video codec, resolution, bit rate, frame rate, audio codec, bit rate, sample rate, channels, etc as you like to get better output video and audio quality.
– Rich subtitle settings options to select desired subtitles from internal DVD movies, enable forced subtitles to disable the traditional subtitles while still preserving the subtitles that translate foreign language speaking parts or add external subtitle to DVD when the foreign language DVD movie do not contain any language subtitles you understand.
– Edit DVD movies by trimming unwanted parts, cropping out black bars or unwanted area, add video/image/transparent text watermark, apply special effect, change video color effect, remove/replace audio in DVD video, etc.
How to Rip Handrake and Libdvdcss Alternative to Rip Commercial DVD Movies?
Step 1: Load DVD disc into the program.
Insert your DVD into the optical drive on your computer, start the program, on the main interface, click “File”> “Load from disc” to load DVD disc into the program, you can also add Video_TS folder or IFO/Image file into the program.
Select desired subtitle: Check the movie titles you want to rip. Click the drop-down list of Subtitles, then all the subtitles info in the DVD movie will be shown clearly, so you can select your needed language as your subtitles freely.
Enable forced subtitles: Tick off “Forced subtitles” option, you will see subtitles only when actors are speaking a language that are different from the subtitles that you have specified before.
Step 2: Choose output file format.
Clicking the Format bar drop-down list, you can choose one of your desired output format or customize which formats to be shown on the list.
Step 3: Edit DVD movies.
Select a movie title or chapter on the main interface to active the “Editor” function, then click the Edit icon on the tool bar of main interface to open the Editor Window, you can play and preview the original DVD movies and output effects. Also you can flip DVD, trim, crop, add effect, reset, and adjust volume.
Step 4: Begin the DVD movie ripping or converting process.
After all setting is completed, hit the “Convert” button at the right bottom of the main interface to begin the DVD copy protection removing and DVD to digital format ripping process.
When the conversion is finished, click “Open Output Folder” icon on the main interface to open the folder with generated files. Then you can freely play the ripped DVD movies on any devices as you like.
What is libdvdcss? It sounds complicated. How to download libdvdcss.pkg Mac or install libdvdcss.dll Windows 10 for HandBrake in order to decrypt a movie DVD?
Q - 'Handbrake problems help! I used to use handbrake to rip DVD but now I can't even do it anymore. I have a new laptop. When I got it all set up and ripped the next DVD, the pictures and sound are all scrambled. Should I download and install the libdvdcss.dll? How can I do this? Please don't recommend any alternatives that have only trail versions. Free DVD rippers that don't require any payment will be fine. Oh and I'm a Windows 10 PC user.'
Best Answer:
Firstly, libdvdcss has been removed from HandBrake free DVD ripper since the release of version 0.9.2, and now you can only find libDVDNav in HandBrake under Tools > Preferences > Advanced > DVD Reading. HandBrake cannot rip DVDs encrypted with CSS ever since.
Secondly, whether downloading and installing VLC libdvdcss Mac/Windows solves 'HandBrake won't work' problem depends on the type of your DVD copy protection.
[Problem] Can't rip protected DVD without libdvdcss Mac, Windows?
[Solution] Downloading and installing libdvdcss.pkg/libdvdcss.dll will solve your problem, but limitedly. Handbrake still doesn't work with DVDs encrypted by region code, Disney X-project DRM, RCE, Sony ArccOS or other protection schemes. It is strongly suggested to remove DVD encryption with WinX DVD Ripper Platinum.
What Is libdvdcss?
libdvdcss = lib (library) + dvd (DVD) + css (Content Scrambling System, a kind of DVD copy protection)
To sum up, libdvdcss is a part of the VideoLAN project, which alone is only a library that can find and guess keys to do the DVD decryption, so that CSS-protected DVDs will be played correctly. Together with media player software and free DVD rippers, such as VLC and HandBrake, libdvdcss helps read and decrypt DVDs of different regions or encrypted with CSS. And because it uses a generated list of possible player keys, libdvdcss has never been legally challenged.
More Info about libdvdcss Mac/Windows
- The latest version is libdvdcss 1.4.2.
- libdvdcss is used only for free software, like HandBrake to decrypt DVD.
- libdvdcss is allowed to run on macOS (libdvdcss error since El Capitan), Windows NT 4.0 SP4 (with IE 5.0) or later, Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Haiku, Solaris, QNX and OS/2.
- VLC installed with libdvdcss supports DVDs of all regions (1-6) only if you have RPC1 drives, for raw access to RPC2 drives can't be made successfully, which however is required to circumvent the region protection.
How to Download Install libdvdcss Windows (10) for HandBrake
Step 1: libdvdcss-2.dll download on Windows (10)
libdvdcss.dll for Windows 32 bit | libdvdcss.dll for Windows 64 bit
Step 2: You don't have to rename libdvdcss-2.dll as libdvdcss.dll. Just cut and paste the downloaded libdvdcss 2 file in your HandBrake program folder. If you didn't manually set the installation path before, it normally is 'C:Program FilesHandBrake'.
Step 3: And that's all for installing HandBrake libdvdcss on Windows (10).
Handbrake Video Converter For Mac
Check the tutorial to copy protected DVD to hard drive without installing libdvdcss.
How to Download Install libdvdcss Mac for HandBrake
Step 1: Download libdvdcss.pkg on Mac OS.
libdvdcss.pkg for Mac OS
Step 2: Double click the downloaded file to install libdvdcss on Mac. But note that there is one more step for installing libdvdcss on Mac El Capitan, because of its SIP (System Integrity Protection), which is said to remove libdvdcss by default. We found two workarounds: disable SIP and a more complicated but recommended way from a Reddit user (as below).
The second way:
1. Open a Finder window -> type 'cmd+shift+G' or click 'Go' and choose 'Go to Folder' -> copy and paste /Library/SystemMigration/History/ -> press button 'GO' -> open the folder 'Migration-[random letters and numbers]' and find 'QuarantineRoot' -> libdvdcss file should be in this folder.
2. Again click 'Go' on the taskbar -> 'Go to Folder' -> type '/usr/local/lib'.
3. Cut and paste your libdvdcss file to the folder '/usr/local/lib' -> put in your admin password to finish the move and libdvdcss installation on Mac is done.
Decrypt Any Copy Protected DVDs with HandBrake Alternative
Libdvdcss is mainly used in free DVD ripper like HandBrake to rip DVD encrypted with CSS. But libdvdcss can't help the DVD ripper freeware to crack all CSS keys, let alone many other advanced DVD copy protections besides CSS, such as Region Code, AACS 2.0, Sony ArccOS, UOPs, and Disney X-project DRM. If you are trying to rip Disney DVDs with HandBrake libdvdcss, there might be a 'HandBrake won't rip' problem, due to its up to 98 fake titles.
If downloading installing HandBrake libdvdcss Mac/Windows is too complicated for you, why not try a much more professional and easier-to-use HandBrake alternative, just like WinX DVD Ripper Platinum, which constantly updates with all kinds of latest DVD copy protections.
- Remove all CSS keys, AACS 2.0, UOP, Sony ARccOS, RCE, region, Disney DRM without 3rd-party tool.
- Rip DVD to MP4, MPEG, MOV, WMV, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, Android, PSP, Xbox, etc. (handbrake can't do) and 350+ built-in profiles .
- 1:1 backup DVD to ISO image, copy DVD with full/main title.
- Support sources like DVD discs, ISO files and folders.
- Rip DVD at NO.1 fast speed due to Level-3 GPU accelerated video encoding decoding technology MMX- SSE, 3DNow! and Hyperthreading.
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Without the need to download libdvdcss, the Handbrake alternative will:
* For example, it supports ripping Disney DVD movies on Windows (10) while Handbrake gets confused with the 99 fake titles.
* HandBrake 1.2.0 added hardware acceleration support for Nvidia NVENC and AMD VCE. But to maximally use your hardware, the Handbrake alternative can rip faster.
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Disclaimer: Digiarty Software does not advocate ripping/copying copy-protected DVDs for any commercial purpose and suggests referring to the DVD copyright laws in your countries before doing so.