MacTheRipper History - From Birth to Die
About the History of MacTheRipper
MacTheRipper removes all protections from the DVD disc and export movies to your Mac. Once the video files are saved to your Mac, you can use a DVD creator to burn it to DVD disc for backup purposes, or use a video converter to transform VOB files to a different format so you can watch it on devices besides your Mac.
Thanks to this free DVD ripper for Mac, you can get more out of your DVD movie. See below about how it grow to be such a great tool step by step.
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 4.0
- Completely re-worked from scratch with a more future-proof codebase
- New ripping modes, 'Full Disc', 'ISO' disk image creation (!) and 'Rip And Rebuild' for those tricky new DVDs
- Compatibility with many new DVDs with advanced copy protections schemes
- New dark-themed interface, complete with mind-blowingly slick animations
- Auto-updater for simplified updates - no more needing to check the forums all the time to find new releases
- Exclusive access to the DVD while ripping so your rip won't get interrupted anymore
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 3.0b
- New interface with more efficient workflow for all extraction modes
- Improves compatibility with new forms of copy protection
- Main Feature Extraction that really works
- Chapter extraction that doesn't suck
- Cell extraction
- Progress bar in the Dock icon to show MTR's progress in the Dock during extraction
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 2.6.6
- Improves prescanning to fix crashing problems on certain DVDs
- Faster prescanning by consolidating code into fewer passes to reduce seeking
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 2.6.5
- Improves prescanning code to fix crashing problems on certain DVDs
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 2.6.4
- Improves IFO scanning code to fix some crashing problems on certain DVDs
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 2.6.3
- This time it really fixes the bug in the new UOPs disabling code
- Fixes an obscure bug where a file called Glass.snd in the home/Library/Sounds folder on some users' systemscould cause MTR to crash
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 2.6.2
- Fixes a big bug in the new UOPs disabling code introduced in 2.6.1
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 2.6.1
- Greatly improved UOPs disabling code, now much less of a chance of making an unplayable DVD, and moreeffective
- Improved prescanning code for speed and compatibility, should now work with more titles
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 2.6
- Added the ability to extract DVDs with ARccOS copy protection, along with new Full Disc and Main Featuremodes for those discs
- Added the ability to handle VOBs with bad sectors, which get padded with dummy data, and notify the user at theend of extraction that read errors were encountered
- Added bad cell detection in Title Only and Title - Chapter modes, so they automatically get skipped; useful for ARccOS DVDs
- Added the ability to demux elementary streams in Title Only and Title - Chapter modes, along with the ability tochoose which streams will get extracted
- Removed deprecated preferences
- Fixed large crashing bug that occurs if the user chooses Title Only extraction, and then immediately choosesanother mode
- Fixed a bug in Non-PGC Title Only and Title - Chapter modes where the output would be incorrect
- Fixed a crashing bug on certain DVDs with particular IFO issues
- Reduced the amount of UI updates during extraction to hopefully reduce the amount of crashes on certaincomputers, namely dual-processor Macs
- Improved progress bar accuracy
- Removed 'Real Time' prescan option in the preferences, as Pre Scan is required for certain functions to work properly now, including ARccOS detection and chapter extraction
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 2.0.2
- Fixed a bug where MTR would become unstable if chapters were selected in reverse order
- Other miscellaneous bug fixes
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 2.0.1
- Minor bug fixes
- Compiled with Xcode 1.5 for improved performance and stability
- Changed the progress bar code to decrease the tax on CPU when MTR is in focus
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 2.0
- Completely rewritten in Objective-C Cocoa to behave more like a Mac application
- New PGC mode for improved title and chapter extractions
- UOP disabling
- ForceRead mode for extracting damaged discs
- File size calculation in the various extraction modes
- DVD-ROM content extraction
- Compiled with GCC 3.3 for improved performance
- Countless bug fixes and performance enhancements
- Improved compatibility with a wider range of DVDs
- New and improved interface with innumerable enhancements
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 1.5.6
- Added analog copy protection removal
- Added CSS key recovery method selection
- Added an 'Eject' button
- Updated interface
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 1.5.5a
- Improved RCE removal code
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 1.5.5
- Allows you to select exactly which regions you want to enable, allowing for any combination of regions
- No longer remembers the last RCE region you set, so that it will always go back to the default of 'OFF', to avoidcorrupting DVDs by having RCE removal enabled when it shouldn't be
- Minor interface enhancements
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 1.5.4
- Fixes a bug with DVDs that have certain characters (namely the apostrophe) in their title
- Fixes a bug with the disc size calculation code
- Minor interface enhancements
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 1.5.3
- Fixes a bug where MTR would forget the last save location if you open the 'Save To' panel and hit 'Cancel'
- Redesigned interface in standard Aqua widgets to improve compatibility and functionality
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 1.5.2
- New application preferences remember the last options you set last time you used MTR, including save location,extraction type, disc region and RCE options
- 'GO!' is now the default option, so if you have a save location set, you can just hit 'Enter' and start the extraction, aslong as there is no RCE option to set
- Minor interface enhancements
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 1.5.1
- Fixes a bug where mounted volumes other than the DVD were being scanned for region and RCE
- Fixes a bug if you insert a second DVD while the first one is ripping
- Added a refresh button for the list of DVDs, in case it doesn't get automatically updated (disabled duringextraction)
- Remembers window placement
- Minor interface enhancements
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 1.5
- RCE and disc region detection and removal
- New interface with progress bar
- Now makes playable output in 'Main Feature' and 'Title Set' modes, thanks to the addition of tocgen
- Consolidated different releases to have a single version for Mac OS X 10.2.x, 10.3.x and for G5s
- Additional minor bug fixes
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 1.0
- New interface
- Many bug fixes, resolved crashing issues
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 0.5
- Fixes bug for DVDs with spaces and punctuation marks in their title
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 0.4
- Several bug fixes, including some of the quit-on-launch problems
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 0.3
- Minor bug fixes
- Separate version for G5s
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 0.2
- Several bug fixes
- Separate version for Mac OS 10.2.x and 10.3.x
What's New in MacTheRipper Version 0.1
- Initial public beta