How to Rip DVD to FLV on Mac

DVD to FLV Ripper for Mac serves you with the fastest Mac DVD rip speed to rip DVD to YouTube FLV and MP4 video. It enable you to select any part of DVD titles and chapters to adjust and merge into one file.

Here is a step-by-step guide to rip DVD to FLV on Mac OS X including Snow Leopard and Lion.

Step 1: Free download and install DVD to FLV Ripper for Mac

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To install it, simply mount the .dmg archive by double-clicking it, and copy the application to your applications folder (or wherever you want).

Step 2: Load DVD to convert to FLV

Insert DVD into your DVD-ROM. Launch DVD Ripper for Mac, there are three ways of loading DVD. You are allowed to add multiple DVD folders.
a. The program will automatically detect DVD files and start loading.
b. Click "File"->"Load DVD" or "Load DVD Files" from main menu to browse your computer hard drive and select the DVD you want to Load.
c. Just easily drag and drop DVD files into program for converting.

Step 3: Select FLV as output format

Click image button on the right side of each item, set output file name and choose output format from following list. There are a variety of video and audio format for output.

Step 4: Change FLV Video and audio Settings

You can change the Resolution, Encoder, Bit rate and Frame rate of the FLV video and Sample Rate, Channels, Encoder and Bit Rate of the FLV Audio. The size of the FLV file depends a lot on these settings.

Step 5: Select output directory

Click "DVD Ripper"->"Preference"->"Output" from main menu, you can choose directory for locating converted files and screen captures.

Step 6: Start the conversion

When everything is set, click Convert -> Start Conversion.

What's FLV?

Flash Video (FLV) is a file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player (initially produced by Macromedia) versions 6–10. Until version 9 update 2 of the Flash Player, Flash Video referred to a proprietary file format, having the extension FLV. Notable users of the Flash Video format include YouTube, Google Video, Yahoo! Video, Reuters.com, metacafe, and many other news providers.