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Free is good? Many people prefer free software rather than have to pay for it. But most of the time the free dvd rippers can help you to rip a normal DVD but when it comes to the protected or encrypted discs, the freeware software is unable to do it. That is why we recommend both the free as well as paid DVD rippers.

But before we look at those DVD rippers, it’s good to know the common features that you can found on most DVD ripping tools:

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Following are the key features a great Mac DVD ripper should have:

  • Designed for Mac OS X and Windows
    A professional DVD Ripper usually support both Windows and Mac including Win7/8/10 and for Mac PowerPC and Mac Intel (include Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard) users.
  • Rip copy-protected DVDs:
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A great Mac DVD ripper is able to rip the commercial discs including the CSS, region code, and other latest DVD movies in the market.

  • Rip DVD to video and audio:

A powerful Mac DVD ripper software to rip DVD to regular video files such as MP4, AVI, MOV, M4V, 3GP, MPG, MPEG, FLV, etc on Mac or PC. And it includes the features of DVD audio ripper that can rip DVD audio to MP3, M4A, AAC, AC3, ASF, etc.

  • Support all regular portable devices:

Rip DVD to play on mobile devices like iPad, iPhone, iPod, Apple TV, Samsung, Sony, Zune, PSP, Xbox 360, PS3, Creative Zen, Archos, PMP, Smart Phone, Pocket PC, Cell Phone, MP4 Player, MP3 player, and many other video and audio players.

  • Select DVD subtitle and audio track:

Allows you to select any available subtitle and audio track on DVD. The good DVD Ripper software for Mac is smartly designed in setting target subtitle’s position in output movie’s picture.

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  • Video editing:

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Good quality Mac DVD Rippers allows you to do some editing like trim, or crop DVD video to remove black sides, adding or removing watermark, etc.

  • Merge file and convert either by chapters or selected at will:

It allows you to merge and convert selected titles or chapters into one file. You can choose to rip DVD on Mac with entire movie or just one or several chapters at will or just choose to convert a segment of the DVD movie by selecting the beginning point.

  • Capture pictures from video:

Using the DVD ripper program for Mac, you can capture pictures by clicking the snapshot button while previewing the movie.

  • Easy to use and fast speed:

It is a very easy to use the Mac DVD Ripper with fast ripping speed. With its intuitive and easy interface, all settings are available in the interface and sub menu. You may pause, stop or continue the conversion at anytime you like. You may preview the audio or video files you want to convert.

Top-rated Free and Paid Mac DVD Rippers:

1) Handbrake

HandBrake is an open-source multiplatform DVD Ripper for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. Now, with the new version of HandBrake, you can convert almost any video files. Handbrake is not limited to DVDs it will now accept practically any type of video as a source. Moreover, the HandBrake’s video quality is enhanced dramatically through the use of psycho visual rate distortion and adaptive quantization.

Pros: Totally free.

Cons: Have a complex interface, not easy to use.

2) MacX DVD Ripper Pro

This is the best and fastest Mac DVD ripper in the market now. Imagine you can backup and DVD with lossless quality in just 5 minutes. The easy to use application allows you to use rip DVD to many popular output formats including MP4, AVI, FLV, MPEG4, etc. You also can edit the video like trim or merge separate video subtitles into a single file. Those video clips can be share directly to the social or video sharing sites like fb, youtube, etc. Free version is available and if you decided to purchase, it also come with a 30-day money back guarantee.

Pros: Fast ripping speed with rich features application.

Cons: Shareware program (Free version with limited features)

3) Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac

Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac is an all-in-one and easy to use DVD ripping software that designed for Mac users (support Mac OS X Leopard). This Mac DVD Ripper can help you copy DVD to computer and rip DVD to various video formats (including MP4, AVI, M4V, MOV, 3GP, MPG, FLV) and audio formats (MP3, M4A, AAC, WAV, OGG, APE, etc.) so you can easily rip DVD movies to iPhone/iPod/Zune/PSP/Apple TV/Cell Phone and other devices on Mac OS X. Now you can have a try to convert DVD to F4V Mac, convert DVD to AAC Mac, good news, this page provides the free downloaded version.

Pros: Professional; Easy to use; Free Download

Cons: Need to pay for the full version.

4) Mac The Ripper (Both Free and Paid Version)

MacTheRipper is a free DVD Ripper for Mac user (until the version 2.6.6). It can extract commercial DVD movies to your hard drive, minus all the copy protections and region controls put in place by DVD publishers. You can then use various tools to burn the movie back to DVD-R for use in DVD players, or convert the movie to different formats for playback with a variety of devices. MacTheRipper is intended to backup DVDs you have legally purchased for personal use. Any copyright-infringing activity you choose to perpetrate using this application is illegal, immoral, and beyond our control.

Pros: Free for older version (Only supports until Max OS X 10.6 Leopard and older).

Cons: The latest version 4.1 is not free and it features is not that powerful.

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Conclusion:

The dvd ripping tools recommended here are some of the most reliable softwares available. If you prefer the free tools, you can get the Handbrake or MacTheRipper. Those are for beginners that try to learn how to rip a dvd.

If you are serious and committed to get the ripping jobs done, I strongly recommend you get the MacX DVD Ripper Pro or Aimersoft DVD Ripper for Mac. Both programs will cost you some money, but it will bring you some powerful functions at an affordable price. You also can trial the rippers for free before committed to buy it.

Author’s Bio:

Powell Wong, he is a writer of computer software related topics which are available on the internet and runs his own blog, www.dvd2dvd.org, a site aimed to help people to choose the correct and most reliable audio video software.

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Ripper
Developer(s)Take-Two Interactive
Publisher(s)Take-Two Interactive
Producer(s)Mark E. Seremet
Chris Short
Programmer(s)Greg Brown
Artist(s)
Writer(s)F. J. Lennon
John Antinori
Dennis Johnson
Composer(s)Michael Bross
Platform(s)DOS, Macintosh
Release
  • NA: February 29, 1996
  • EU: 1996
Genre(s)Interactive movie, Point-and-click adventure
Mode(s)Single-player

Ripper is a 1996 interactive moviepoint-and-click adventure game developed and published by Take-Two Interactive for DOS and Macintosh. The game has a cast that includes celebrities such as Christopher Walken, Paul Giamatti, Karen Allen, Burgess Meredith (in his final performance before his death the following year) and John Rhys-Davies. It also featured the Blue Öyster Cult song '(Don't Fear) The Reaper'.

There is no definite canonical answer on who the villain of the game is, since this is decided by the game at random, out of four main characters. A limited number of the clues and puzzles, plus a single line of dialogue in the ending, change according to the villain's identity.

In 1996 home ports for the Sega Saturn and Sony PlayStation were announced,[1] but both were eventually cancelled.

Plot synopsis[edit]

Ripper takes place in New York City in the year 2040. It opens with the investigation of the recent murder of Renee Stein, the third victim of a serial killer known as 'The Ripper', largely out of the modus operandi similarity to Jack the Ripper. The player assumes the role of Jake Quinlan, a reporter for the Virtual Herald, whom The Ripper sends messages to detailing his murders[2] (an act attributed to Jack the Ripper, although no letters have been proven to come from him). Along with the police (whose investigation is headed by Detective Vincent Magnotta), Quinlan is seeking The Ripper's true identity.

After investigating Renee Stein's murder, Quinlan receives a message from The Ripper, who warns Quinlan that his girlfriend, Catherine Powell, will be the next victim, as she has gotten too close to discovering his identity. Quinlan manages to find Powell still alive, but in a coma 'deeper than anyone thought possible.' Cybersurgeon Claire Burton at the Meta-Cognition Center of the Tribeca Center Hospital manages to retrieve a distorted image of Powell's attacker, but requires additional information from Quinlan to make it clearer. (This is also a reference to Jack the Ripper, as the police hypothesized that they might be able to get an image of the killer from the retinas of the victims.) He provides this through investigating into what Powell was on to in her investigation and homes in on three possible suspects for The Ripper's murders. In order to transmit this information into Powell's brain directly, he enlists the help of Joey Falconetti, a hacker who specializes in interfacing directly with the human brain.

Quinlan's investigation leads him to discover that all of The Ripper's victims and all of those associated with the investigation of The Ripper (except Quinlan himself) were involved with an old gaming group known as the Web Runners, who played a game based on the Jack the Ripper mystery. The last session of this game somehow caused one of the players to die in real life. The player that died happened to be Catherine Powell's mother. Assistance from a pathologist named Vic Farley reveals that The Ripper's murders were done by placing a code into a victim's brain while in cyberspace that caused their internal body pressure to rise to a point of explosion, which Farley experiences immediately after providing his explanation. Quinlan also finds a cyberspace weapon developed by a murdered cyberarchitect named Hamilton Wofford, designed specifically to kill The Ripper inside a virtual recreation of the historic Whitechapel district of London, where the Jack the Ripper murders took place. After assembling the weapon and gathering the necessary protection from The Ripper's weapon, Quinlan enters cyberspace, kills The Ripper, and manages to escape the virtual Whitechapel in time to escape its destruction.

The Ripper can be one of four possible suspects: Joey Falconetti, Claire Burton, Vincent Magnotta, or Catherine Powell. With each play-through, certain clues and actual identity of The Ripper vary, though the bulk of the story is unchanged, and clues indicating the guilt of all four suspects will appear regardless of who the killer is. For instance, Catherine Powell experiences mysterious surges in brain wave activity that coincide with all the Ripper's murders regardless of whether or not she actually is the Ripper, and no alternative explanation for these surges is provided. However, the changes in the game's story and puzzles are limited to the game's third act- after Farley's death.

Cast[edit]

  • Christopher Walken as Detective Vince Magnotta; a violent police officer with a romantic interest in Clare Burton and a vendetta against Falconetti. When Catherine's mother died during their last Ripper game, Magnotta arrested Falconetti for the murder. Magnotta is convinced that Falconetti is the Ripper, but his obsession may simply be a ruse to cover the fact that Magnotta himself is the Ripper. Magnotta may also be eager to frame Falconetti as the Ripper so that he can collect a large bounty for solving the case. Over the course of the investigation, Magnotta becomes increasingly more hostile towards Quinlan, believing him to be the Ripper due to the circumstances of Quinlan's encounters with the Ripper and their victims.
  • Burgess Meredith as Hamilton Wofford / Covington Wofford; two brothers that live on the outskirts of New York City. Hamilton was a Cyber-Architect who built virtual worlds based on historic locations. Hamilton was hired by the Ripper to build a replica of Whitechapel. Hamilton is murdered prior to the start of the game, but Quinlan eventually finds an AI created by Hamilton that provides him with critical information. Covington- in his brother's absence- is a recluse and seems to have gradually lost his grip on sanity.
  • Karen Allen as Doctor Clare Burton; a brilliant, but seemingly cold and distant doctor that specializes in the human brain. Burton is the object of affection of both Magnotta and Falconetti, both of whom have made Burton's life chaotic. Burton arouses suspicion of being the Ripper when she appears to stall treating Catherine- the only surviving Ripper victim. It is later revealed that Burton invented the weapon that the Ripper uses in his murders. Burton claims that the weapon was stolen, but whether this is true depends on whether Burton is the Ripper or not.
  • David Patrick Kelly as Joey Falconetti; a brilliant, though seemingly violent and disturbed computer hacker. Falconetti immediately draws suspicion of being the Ripper with his fascination with knife collecting and his fascination with the Ripper himself. Falconetti was married to Clare Burton, but the two divorced after Magnotta arrested Falconetti. Joey now has a vendetta for Magnotta and Burton, though he still has feelings for the latter.
  • Scott Cohen as Jake Quinlan; an investigative reporter who is investigating and writing about the Ripper murders. Quinlan regularly receives letters and messages from the Ripper, and Quinlan is forced into chasing the Ripper when his assistant and lover- Catherine Powell- is attacked by the Ripper. Quinlan is not well versed in the workings of cyberspace; thus the player must learn how the technology of the game world works as Quinlan learns it himself.
  • Ossie Davis as Ben Dodds; the editor of the Virtual Herald whom Quinlan confides in.
  • John Rhys-Davies as Vigo Haman; a mobster that has valuable information regarding Clare Burton.
  • Tahnee Welch as Catherine Powell; Quinlan's co-worker and lover. Powell begins investigating the Ripper behind Quinlan's back, hoping to take the story and launch her own career as a reporter. Powell is comatose for most of the game, but it is discovered late in the game that her brain activity spikes each day that the Ripper kills; making Catherine a viable suspect. The suspicion that Catherine may be the Ripper is heightened when it's discovered that her mother was killed in the last Ripper Web Runners game, and Catherine was aware of this fact.
  • Jimmie Walker as Soap Beatty; a computer hacker who is one of Catherine's primary sources in her investigation of the Ripper. He gives the player much insight into the computer technology of the game.
  • Steven Randazzo as Sgt. Lou Brannon; a rare non-corrupt cop that gives the player information about Magnotta's suspicious activities.
  • Peter Boyden as Vic Farley; a friendly pathologist who is trying to figure out how the Ripper commits his murders.
  • Paul Giamatti as Doctor Bud Cable; a doctor tending to Catherine Powell who keeps the player up to date about Catherine's condition when Doctor Burton stalls treating her.
  • MacIntyre Dixon as Gambit Nelson; a cyberspace entrepreneur who gives the player critical information about Falconetti.
  • Lianna Pai as Kashi Yamamoto; A current Web Runner who gives the player information about the Runners' history.
  • David Thornton as Twig; an assistant that maintains Falconetti's computer hacking equipment.
  • Kira Arne as Vivien Santiago; the receptionist at the hospital who flirts with Quinlan and informs Quinlan of suspicious activities at the hospital.
  • William Seymour as Bob Eppels; a pathologist who replaces Farley after Farley is fired. Suspiciously, Eppels is seemingly under instruction not to give Quinlan any information, though he slips up and tells Quinlan secrets about the hospital.
  • Richard Bright as Dr. Karl Stasiak; a forensic photographer who is a trusted source of Quinlan's. Unfortunately Karl gets freaked out by the Ripper's attacks and leaves New York, depriving Quinlan of a trusted source in the police department.
  • Phyllis Bash as Prof. Lillian Bech; a Professor who sheds some light on Clare Burton's past. She first informs Quinlan of the Web Runners' existence.
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Development[edit]

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Though full motion video-based games (also called interactive movies) had already become a subject of ridicule by the time Ripper began development, considerable effort was focused on the game's full motion video sequences. Paying the game's slew of big-name actors cost nearly 25% of the game's entire budget, and Phil Parmet was brought on to direct the video segments.[3] By late November 1995, its budget had reached roughly $4 million.[4] Writer/lead designer F. J. Lennon commented, 'The whole industry wants to crucify FMV, people claim FMV doesn't belong in game, but if it's done professionally, I think it can work.'[3]

The game engine was created from scratch, and was designed with the ability to change resolution between 640x480 and 320x200 on the fly.[3]

Ripper was launched in February 1996.[5]

Reception[edit]

Sales[edit]

For the launch of Ripper, Take 2 announced shipments of 160,000 copies to retailers during the game's debut week, and called it 'our biggest game to date'.[5] According to Take 2, the game sold above 150,000 units by the end of October 1996 and earned 28.7% of all company revenue during that fiscal year,[6] the total of which was $12.5 million. The company's income in that period was $349,074.[7]Arinn Dembo of CNET Gamecenter wrote, '[S]low sales, unfortunately, quickly knocked [Ripper] off retail shelves.'[8]

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Critical reviews[edit]

Aggregate score
AggregatorScore
GameRankings71.50%[9]
Review scores
PublicationScore
Next Generation[2]
PC Gamer (US)72%[10]
Computer Games Strategy Plus[11]
Computer Game Review92/90/93[12]
PC Entertainment[13]

The game received an average score of 71.50% at GameRankings, based on an aggregate of 4 reviews.[9] A reviewer for Next Generation commented, 'One minute the game believes it's a graphic adventure, the next it's a movie, and the next it's a puzzle game. If any one of these aspects would be perfected, it could be a gamer's delight. As it stands, the game is mediocre in each category.' He specifically criticized that the characters 'are so overdone it's just plain funny' and the first-person sequences can't be bypassed, forcing the player to watch the same graphics every time they backtrack.[2]

Jeff Sengstack of NewMedia magazine wrote that Ripper 'meets, even exceeds, its pre-release hype', and summarized it as 'an engaging horror mystery with immense depth.' However, he found fault with the video compression and difficulty.[14]

References[edit]

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  1. ^'It's a Ripper'. Sega Saturn Magazine (7). Emap International Limited. May 1996. p. 8.
  2. ^ abc'Jack's Back'. Next Generation. No. 18. Imagine Media. June 1996. p. 122.
  3. ^ abc'Ripper'. Next Generation. Imagine Media (10): 83–84. October 1995.
  4. ^https://archive.is/HgoEb
  5. ^ ab'TAKE TWO INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE INC - Form 10KSB'. SEC.gov. February 6, 1998. Archived from the original on June 18, 2018. Retrieved October 10, 2019.
  6. ^Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Form 10-KSB (Report). Delaware. October 31, 1997. p. 5. Archived from the original on June 18, 2018.
  7. ^Jebens, Harley (February 9, 1998). 'Take 2's Mother Lode'. GameSpot. Archived from the original on March 5, 2000.
  8. ^https://web.archive.org/web/19970720002032/http://www.gamecenter.com:80/Features/Exclusives/Halloween/ss01g.html
  9. ^ ab'Ripper'. GameRankings. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
  10. ^Wolf, Michael (May 1996). 'Reviews; Ripper'. PC Gamer US. 3 (5): 109, 110.
  11. ^Yans, Cindy (April 13, 1996). 'Ripper'. Computer Games Strategy Plus. Archived from the original on February 8, 2005.
  12. ^Snyder, Frank; Chapman, Ted; Gehrs, Scott (April 1996). 'Ripping Good Stuff'. Computer Game Review. Archived from the original on December 21, 1996.
  13. ^Meyer, Bill (May 1996). 'Ripper'. PC Entertainment. Archived from the original on November 13, 1996.
  14. ^Sengstack, Jeff (October 28, 1996). 'Real World'. NewMedia. Archived from the original on April 16, 1997.

External links[edit]

  • Official site (archived)
  • Ripper at MobyGames
  • Ripper at IMDb
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