How to Convert and Rip DVD to H.264 on Mac

Wanna convert DVD to H.264 videos, say MP4, so that you can put the videos on your iPad, iPhone, iPod, or edit it in iMovie on Mac. Get the DVD to H.264 Ripper for Mac and all is under your control.

DVD to H.264 Ripper for Mac serves you with the fastest Mac DVD rip speed to rip DVD to H.264 video. It also can convert DVD to FLV, AVI, MPEG, WMV, MKV, MP4, MOV, 3GP videos, and extract audio from DVD to MP3, WAV, WMA, RA, M4A, AAC, AC3, OGG audio formats.

Have a free trial of Mac DVD to H.264 Ripper and follow the step-by-step guide to rip DVD to H.264 on Mac OS X including Snow Leopard and Lion.

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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).

How to convert DVD to H.264 videos on Mac step by step

Step 1. Load DVD to convert to H.264 video

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 2. Select H.264 as output format

Click image button at right of each DVD item, set output file name and click Format to choose MP4 as output format from following list. And then click "option" and specify h.264 as Codec.

Step 3. Change H.264 video and audio settings

You can set output video and audio such as Resolution, Encoder, Bit rate and Frame rate of the H.264 video.

Step 4. Click "Start" to Rip DVD to H.264 on Mac.

If you want to trim, crop, capture screen picture, merge several video clips on to one file and more editing, please go to how to edit videos with DVD to H.264 Ripper on Mac.

About H.264: H.264 stands for. H.264 is known as one of the most popular video formats nowadays. In fact, H.264 was first introduced to the world by Microsoft in November 1992 as a multimedia format, part of Microsoft Video for Windows technology. H.264 files can contain audio data and video data, which are interleaved for the playback. The resolution of H.264 video varies from 640*480 to 160*120, keeping a 4:3 ratio.